Phineas Fay "Phin" Clanton B. 1843 D. 01/05/1905
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1843 - Newman Haynes "Old Man" Clanton and
his wife Mariah have their second son. Phineas Fay Clanton, known as "Phin,"
born in Callaway County, Missouri.
1851 - The family moves to Adams County, Illinois.
1853 - The family moves to Texas.
1865 - The family moves to Fort Bowie, Arizona Territory.
1866 - The family moves to San Buena Ventura, California. Phin’s mother Mariah
dies on the way.
1869 - Phin living in Lone Pine, California with his oldest brother John Wesley
and his wife Nancy.
1873 - Phin moves back to Arizona to help his family with Clantonville, a
farming community created by his father.
1877 - Phin moves down on the San Pedro River, up river from the town of
Charleston, Arizona Territory.
1877 - Phin helps his father build a large Adobe house near Lewis Springs, about
five miles south of Charleston. This would become known as the Clanton Ranch.
1880 - Phin is still living in the Lewis Springs ranch house, near Charleston,
working as a Freight driver.
August 13, 1881 - Phin’s father Newman Haynes "Old Man" Clanton is murdered in
Guadalupe Canyon, New Mexico. He was buried where he fell.
October 26, 1881 = Phin's little brother Billy is killed by the Earps and Doc
Holliday in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral. Phin was not in Tombstone when
the gunfight took place.
ctober 28, 1881 - Billy is buried in the Boothill Graveyard in Tombstone,
Arizona Territory.
December 28,1881 -Tombstone Police chief Virgil Earp is ambushed while crossing
fifth street in Tombstone. He would survive the attack, but was crippled for
life in his left arm. Phin and his brother Ike, were both arrested for this
attack, but witnesses confirmed that they were both in Charleston, some 12 miles
away when the shooting took place.
1882 - Phin Clan and Ike travel to Guadalupe Canyon, exhumed their fathers body
and re-bury him in the Boothill Graveyard, next to his youngest son Billy.
November 23, 1882 - Phineas Fay "Phin" Clanton registers to vote in Cochise
County.
Late 1882 - Phin and Ike move two hundred miles north of Tombstone to Apache
County, Arizona. They both acquired 160 acres in an area known as Cienega
Amarilla. Their little sister Mary Elsie lived near by in Springerville with her
husband Ebin Stanley, who began working in the cattle business with Phin and
Ike.
July 7, 1883 - Phin Clanton and Ebin Stanley are indicted by a grand jury for
cattle rustling. The accuser said that the two illegally branded one calf with
there "PU" brand. The two were arrested, the trial took place and they were both
found not guilty.
December 27, 1885 - During the night, the Apache County treasurer’s office safe
was broken into and it’s entire contents stolen. Deputy treasurer Francisco Baca
claimed that masked robbers came to his house, took him down to the treasurer’s
office and made him open the safe. He claimed he knew the robbers were Phin and
Ike Clanton, Ebin Stanley and Lee Renfro of Springerville, and Mr. Buck
Henderson of St. Johns. The men were taken into custody, immediately posted
bonds and it went to trial. The court found that ex-treasurer Francisco Baca
concocted the whole story himself. Ultimately Baca was found guilty of
embezzling $11,166.54.
September 1887 - Phin is convicted on one indictment of grand larceny. He is
sentenced to ten years in the Yuma Arizona State Prison.
October 7, 1887 - Phin arrives at the Yuma prison to start serving a ten year
sentence.
March 15, 1889 - After serving one year and five months of a ten year prison
sentence, Phin is pardoned by Governor Meyer Zulick. It was found that the main
witness against Phin lied on the stand to collect a two hundred and fifty dollar
reward!
March 24, 1889 - Phin is released from the Yuma prison.
1889 - After his release from prison, Phin and his friend Peter Spencer begin
working as business partners raising goats on Phin’s ranch in Globe, Arizona.
1891 - A Clifton newspaper reporter wrote that Phin was shot and killed by
Ballard Peason at St. John. No particulars were given.
May 15, 1894 - Phin is indicted on a robbery charge. The charge was for assault
upon a China man named Sam Kee. Kee claims that Phin Clanton robbed him of a
gold watch valued at $40, two bars of silver bullion, each valued at $15, one
gold bracelet, valued at $20 and $320 in money.
1894 - Phin was found not guilty by a jury on robbery charges and released.
October 15, 1902 - Phin marries Laura Jane Neal in Globe, Arizona.
January 5, 1905 - Phin dies at the age of 61 in Webster Springs, Gila County,
Arizona and is buried in the Globe Cemetery.
April 2, 1910 - Phin’s widow Laura Jane marries his best friend and business
associate Peter Spencer.
PHIN CLANTON February 16, 1898 Arizona Republican newspaper Phin Clanton, whose name is associated with many of the most stirring events in ARizona, fifteen to twenty years ago when Arizona was wilder than it had ever been before. He was about Tombstone in its silver days when the Earps and Doc Holiday were wading in slaughter pretending to keep the peace. Clanton was one of them and none was more reckless and skillful than he. He could stand in a street melee with a dozen men shooting at him without disturbing either the quickness or accuracy of aim. Those were times when outlawry ahd to be met with outlawry and the one kind was conducted under the cover of the law. The killing of a man in cold blood was not exactly a crime if the victim was given any sort of a chance for his life or if the killing was actuated by revenge. Some of the killers had been peaceable men in other communities and when the storm of lawlessness was over many of them became peacable again. Some of them became robbers and open violiators of more firmly established laws and at first all of them were easily suspicioned of crimes whose commission requied nerve. Clanton himself was arrested for a desperate offense of some sort, but he always swore he was innocent. Judge W.H. Barnes who defended and acquitted him has always said that he never had any doubt of his innocence. AFter it was all over Clanton said the accusation and prosecution nearly drove him into the camp of the outlaws. He had been on the balance so long that it is a wonder with the incentive of which he complained he did not enroll himself among the desperate criminals. He is rather glad now that he did not. He has been industrious and fairly prosperous and is the owner of a good herd of cattle in the eastern part of the territory.
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