Tom and Bud Dixson were cousins of Joe and John Hardin. John was better known by his full name, John Wesley Hardin, a Texas Gunfighter born to the unrest that followed the Civil War. Following the killing of Deputy Sheriff Web of Comanche County, Texas, by John Wesley Hardin, a group of vigilantes hunted down and lynched Tom, Bud, and Joe. The boys bodies were retrieved by a family friend, returned and buried at the Hardin Homestead. Years later, after the Hardin family had moved away, the property was owned by a Comanche hardware merchant, William Barnes. The story is told, that Mrs. Barnes, did not wish to be living with the "Ghosts of the Hardin Gang", so her husband hired two men to exhume the bodies of the three men and relocate the remains to the Oakwood Cemetery. The diggers supposedly found some boot heels, buttons, belt buckles, and a few bones so the grave site that we now visit north of Comanche, Texas, is in all reality just a partial grave.
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Post Office returns show that Joseph G. Hardin was postmaster in Comanche, Texas from 18 April 1872 to 3 April 1873.
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Post Office returns show that Joseph G. Hardin was postmaster in Comanche, Texas from 18 April 1872 to 3 April 1873.
Thank you
Tom and Bud Dixson were cousins of Joe and John Hardin. John was better known by his full name, John Wesley Hardin, a Texas Gunfighter born to the unrest that followed the Civil War. Following the killing of Deputy Sheriff Web of Comanche County, Texas, by John Wesley Hardin, a group of vigilantes hunted down and lynched Tom, Bud, and Joe. The boys bodies were retrieved by a family friend, returned and buried at the Hardin Homestead. Years later, after the Hardin family had moved away, the property was owned by a Comanche hardware merchant, William Barnes. The story is told, that Mrs. Barnes, did not wish to be living with the "Ghosts of the Hardin Gang", so her husband hired two men to exhume the bodies of the three men and relocate the remains to the Oakwood Cemetery. The diggers supposedly found some boot heels, buttons, belt buckles, and a few bones so the grave site that we now visit north of Comanche, Texas, is in all reality just a partial grave.
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Post Office returns show that Joseph G. Hardin was postmaster in Comanche, Texas from 18 April 1872 to 3 April 1873.
Thank you
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Post Office returns show that Joseph G. Hardin was postmaster in Comanche, Texas from 18 April 1872 to 3 April 1873.
Thank you
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