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Bosque County and Fannin County: William Cocke Young, early Texas settler, attorney, sheriff, and United States Marshal: 18,124: 922 sq mi (2,388 km 2) Zapata County: 505: Zapata: 1858: Starr County and Webb County: José Antonio Zapata, a local rancher and colonel of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande: 13,736: 997 sq mi (2,582 km 2 ...
Walker was flown to the Denton Regional Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries. Deputies from the Denton County Sheriff's Office and police officers from the Frisco Police Department were dispatched to back up the other officers. An elderly woman that was also in the residence with Garcia was rescued by being escorted from the rear ...
Glenn Reynolds was the first sheriff of Throckmorton County, Texas. Later, he moved to Arizona and was elected sheriff of Globe, Gila County, Arizona. On November 2, 1889, while transporting Apache Indian prisoners to Yuma State Prison, he and Deputy Sheriff Williams Holmes, were overpowered outside of Kelvin, Arizona and killed by them.
"I am very sad to hear that Tillman County Sheriff Bill Ingram, who bravely served our community for many years, unexpectedly passed away last night," U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore wrote in a post ...
The Sutton–Taylor feud reached its apex when Jim Taylor and his cousin William Riley "Billy" Taylor, along with several others, ambushed and gunned down William E. Sutton and a companion, Gabriel Slaughter, while they waited on a steamboat platform in Indianola, Texas, on March 11, 1874. William Sutton had grown tired of the feud and planned ...
When the demand for his services dwindled, Standifer ran and was elected as County Sheriff for Crosby County, Texas from 1888 through 1894. While serving as Sheriff, in 1891, he and Deputy Charlie Quillen pursued a group of Post Office thieves into Lincoln County, New Mexico , where they captured them.
The county is split between two different U.S. congressional districts, the First and the Fifth Congressional Districts. Thus, the county is represented by Congressman Nathaniel Moran and Congressman Lance Gooden. The county is currently represented in the Texas Senate by Kevin Eltife. [28] The current county judge is Lucy Hebron, elected in ...
The new county courthouse The Maverick County Jail, established 1949, is adjacent to the county courthouse. Maverick County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 57,887. [2] Its county seat is Eagle Pass. [3] The county was created in 1856 and organized in 1871. [4]