Patrick Garrett
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June 5, 1850 Chambers County, Alabama |
| Died | February 29, 1908 (aged 57) Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States |
| Cause of death | Shooting |
| Resting place | Masonic Cemetery Las Cruces, New Mexico 32°18′4″N 106°47′7″W / 32.30111°N 106.78528°W |
| Other names | Patrick Floyd Garrett |
| Known for | Killing Billy the Kid |
| Height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
| Spouse(s) | Juanita Gutierrez Garrett (1879) Apolinaria Gutierrez Garrett (1880) |
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| Parent(s) | John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis |
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Patrick Floyd Jarvis "Pat" Garrett (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. He was also the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico. He co authored a book about Billy the Kid which, for a generation after the Kid's death, was deemed authoritative; however, historians have since found many embellishments and inconsistencies with other accounts of the outlaw's life. Pat Garrett also became one of President Theodore Roosevelt's three "White House Gunfighters" (Bat Masterson and Ben Daniels were the others) when Roosevelt appointed him Collector of Customs in El Paso. Garrett was murdered under unclear circumstances.
Patrick Floyd Jarvis "Pat" Garrett was born on June 5, 1850, in Chambers County, Alabama. He was the second of five children born to John Lumpkin Garrett (1822–1868) and his wife Elizabeth Ann Jarvis (1829–1867). Pat's four siblings were named Margaret, Elizabeth, John and Alfred. When Pat was three years old his father purchased the John Greer plantation in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. The Civil War destroyed the Garrett family's finances. Pat's mother, Elizabeth Jarvis Garrett, died on March 25, 1867 at the age of 37. Less than a year later, on February 5, 1868 Pat's father, John Lumpkin Garrett, died at the age of 45. Pat and his four siblings were left with a plantation that was more than $30,000 in debt. His siblings were taken in by relatives. With no reason to remain, the 18 year-old Pat Garrett rode away from Louisiana on January 25, 1869, and headed west.
Garrett's whereabouts over the next seven years are obscure. By 1876 he was in Texas hunting buffalo. During this period Garrett killed his first man, a fellow buffalo hunter named Joe Briscoe. He surrendered to the authorities at Fort Griffin, Texas, but they declined to prosecute. When the buffalo hunting trade declined, Pat Garrett left Texas and rode further west into the New Mexico Territory.
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