Frank C. Stilwell (abt. 1856 - 1882)

Born about 1856 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States [uncertain]

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Died 20 Mar 1882 at about age 26 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona Territory, United States

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One time Cochise County Sheriff, suspected stage robber and assassin of Morgan S. Earp. Frank Stilwell was an underling of Cochise County Sheriff John Behan and a friend to the outlaw gang known as the "Cowboys." In the summer of 1881, Stilwell was a supect in a fatal stage holdup. On March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp, Wyatt's younger brother, was gunned down while playing billiards. Stilwell was one of the suspected assassins. Three day later, on the night of March 21, Wyatt Earp and his posse supposedly caught up with Stilwell at the Tucson railyards. Shortly after sunrise the next morning, workers found Stilwell's bullet-riddled body near the tracks, one hundred yards north of the station. Originally, Stilwell was buried in the old city cemetery. But as the city grew, the cemetery had to go. Most of the bodies buried there were re-interred at Evergreen Cemetery, in a mass, unmarked grave, thought to be at the back of the cemetery, although, the office at the cemetery has no record of such a grave.

Sources

• ancestry.com

• Lists Texas as Birth location:"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH2H-SFY : 12 August 2017), F C Stillwell, Charleston Village, Pima, Arizona, United States; citing enumeration district ED 2, sheet 191C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,036.

• Wikipedia contributors, "Frank Stilwell," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Stilwell (accessed October 6, 2019).

• Find A Grave: Memorial #7327385 [Note: FAG lists 21 Mar 1882 Death date]