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get killed, but don’t kill anybody unless you have to.”

Dee Harkey later left San Saba County and moved to New Mexico where he became
a famous law man. Between the years 1893 and 1911 in New Mexico he fought and
arrested many cattle rustlers, train robbers, members of the Dalton Gang and other
outlaws, one of whom was Jim Miller who Dee claimed was the actual killer of the
famous Pat Garrett.

In 1948 Dee Harkey wrote the book MEAN AS HELL in which he related stories of
his experiences as a law man in Texas and New Mexico. His mention of the RENFRO
brothers in San Saba County was excited to me and so the search began to see if the
RENFRO brothers he mentions in his book were our relatives.

As previously mentioned it was troubling that alleged outlaws living on the outlaw trail
would be mentioned in the U.S. census every ten years. For example THOMAS
RENFRO is listed in the Limestone County, TX census along with MISSOURI, his
wife. He is listed in the 1880 San Saba County census. He is listed as living in
McCullogh County, Texas in 1900. In the 1910 Census he and his family are listed in
the Brown County, Texas census. Later his family members, including MISSOURI,
are mentioned as living in Coleman County, Texas , specifically in Santa Ana, Texas

and elsewhere. So, the census records did not indicate THOMAS and his family was
attempting to escape the attention of authorities.

Cousin MARY BROWN, who lived in San Saba, Texas once sent me a photograph of
the tomb stones for MISSOURI and THOMAS RENFRO located in the
CowboyCemetery located between Rochelle and Brady, Texas off State Highway 2822.
These tombstones have the inscriptions “ Father, Thomas C. Renfro, 1843-1922 and
Mother, Missouri O. Foy Renfro , 1851- 2/22/1942.”

There is some disagreement concerning THOMAS’ middle name. Some researchers
list it as CLAY; others, as CAMPBELL.

[Texas Index of Death Records at Austin, Texas list THOMAS CAMPBELL
RENFRO as dying on May 5, 1922 in Brown County, Texas (reference #13462).
Those same records list MISSOURI OWENS RENFRO as dying in Mason County,
Texas on February 2, 1945 (reference # 8732).]

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