Lilah and Deluvina Chisum



Deluvina Maxwell and Lilah Chisum were Chuck Kuznetsov’s daughters. They were Navajo indians from the Canyon de Chelly reservation in the Arizona territory. Chuck abondanded them after relocating to New Mexico and joining the "El pelegroso gang". They were always raised by their mother (Whos name was never known)

Apaches raided their homes and they were held captives as slaves and were traded by The Maxwell family for the sum of ten horses. They became house servants and The Maxwell family treated them very well that they became a part of their family, even taking their last names.

When Billy met the two siblings, Deluvina became infatuated with him that when he died in Pete's bedroom, she saw him dead and was distraught by his death that when Pete and Garrett died, Deluvina said "I'm glad I lived long enough to see them dead and buried" She went to visit Billy's grave often and mourn for his loss. Deluvina married a cousin of The Maxwell family and had a son named Felipe Maxwell and lived in Bernalillo County, New Mexico where she died in 1934.

Lilah on the other hand, Married a man named Thomas Chisum and moved to Colfax county. She actually requested the remains of her father to be moved to Missouri where he was born. She died in 1929.