Thomas "Tom" McLaury B. 06/30/1853 D. 10/26/1881
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Thomas "Tom" McLaury was born in Courtright Center, N.Y. in the foothills of the Catskills
Tom McLaury was the son of Margaret Rowland (1812-1859) and Robert McLaury (1811-1893). Their mothers side came from a Scottish Irish family that had specialized in raising pure-bred sheep. Robert McLaury was a successful attorney.
The family moved to Iowa, settling in Belle Plaine. It
was here in Belle Plaine, that Frank and Tom got their education at a local
common school or academy, both studied pre-law. Oldest brother William or "Will"
received his degree in law and later became a superior court judge in Fort
Worth, Texas.
After the death of their mother in 1859, during a typhoid epidemic, the eleven
children of the family made their home with their grandfather.
Frank and Tom McLaury moved to Hereford, Arizona, where they built a windowless,
door less, shelter. It was at this time that the two McLaury brothers became
close friends and business associates with the Clanton family. The two McLaury
brothers were always known as fine dressers.
Frank and Tom spent most of their time with a herd of Mexican steers they
purchased with money they brought with them from Iowa. After selling off the
herd for a good profit, the two McLaury brothers saw an opportunity to continue
profiting from the cattle business. The brothers pre-empted land at Soldiers
Holes, west of the new town of Tombstone. Here they built a an adobe house and
labored hard and long hours laying out irrigated alfalfa fields. They were the
pioneers of alfalfa growing in this region.
Frank and Tom McLaury worked hard, were of excellent reputation, did not go
often to Tombstone and seemed to stay out of the bright lights. However, because
they lived on a ranch outside of town, they became friends and business
associates with not so good cattle men passing by like Curly Bill Brocius, that
began to tarnish their good reputations.
On this night in Tombstone, Frank and Tom McLaury were arrested at the scene of
the accidental shooting of Tombstone Marshal Fred White. Frank and Tom were
amongst a group "mischief seeking" cowboys that were shooting their guns at the
moon and having a good time on sixth street, when Marshal Fred White appeared on
the scene to stop the disturbance. When the Marshal tried to disarm Curly Bill
Brocius, he jerked Curly Bills cocked 45 caliber pistol barrel first, at which
time Curly Bill accidentally pulled the trigger shooting Marshal White in the
stomach. Before Marshal White eventually died of from these wounds, he admitted
that it was an accident. Curly Bill was cleared of murder.
Sherman McMasters,
the outlaw who had been Wyatt Earps friend in Dodge City, stole a valuable
thoroughbred horse from E.B. Gage, the general manager of the Contention Mine in
Tombstone. After a tip from Ike Clanton, Sheriff Billy Breakenridge recovered
the stolen horse from a corral at the McLaury Ranch. It was at this time, that
Sheriff Breakenridge openly accused the two McLaury brothers of hanging out with
bad blood. Curly Bill Brocius and other accused outlaws were present when
Breakenridge arrived at the McLaury ranch. The McLaury’s responded to
Breakenridges accusations with, "Nobody goes hungry when they stop by our
ranch."
Frank and Tom McLaury are murdered by the Earp brothers
and Doc Holliday, in a vacant lot behind the OK Corral in Tombstone. Both are
buried side by side in Tombstone’s Boothill Graveyard next to Billy Clanton, who
was also murdered.
Frank and Tom’s oldest brother, attorney, William or
"Will" McLaury arrives in Tombstone to find out how and why his brothers and
young Billy Clanton were murdered. After the Earps and Doc Holliday were set
free and cleared of the murders, many historians believe that Will McLaury was
the person who organized the "Vigilante Justice" that shot and crippled Virgil
Earp and murdered Morgan Earp.
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