Death date unknown now. (Probably c.1894-1898)
FROM the book "Mills County - The Way It Was"
"Sebe Arnold was a cowboy from McCullough County, Texas, and worked for a large ranch there. He was sent by his employer to round up horses belonging to the ranch that had strayed to Mills County. While rounding up the horses, he was warned by a group of men who thought him stealing the horses, to leave the territory immediately. Sebe was not afraid and continued with his work. When the same group of men came upon him the next morning, he was hanged from the nearest tree and buried under it's branches.
Many years later, a prairie fire killed the tree, and it is now a blackened stump. The limb from which Sebe Arnold was hanged rests over the headstone that a friend had placed at his grave. His name is hand-carved in the stone, and flowers decorate the corners of the marker."
The custom of the day was to hang horse theives. I'm guessing Sebe was a very young man, not to have heeded the warning of the group of ranchers and return to his employer for help and to relate the story of the warning. He was probably in his late teens or early 20's, as a man of maturity and experience would have taken the warning seriously.
Being from another County, Sebe was probably not aware of the Mob they called The San Saba Mob, that was a group of wealthy ranchers who had come into the area, buying up large parcels of land to ranch, then putting up barbed wire fences to mark their property lines. This caused much distress, and uproar with the smaller cattle ranchers, as it cut off the little rancher's access to get their cattle to water, to other pastures for grazing, and to take their cattle to market. So, the smaller cattle ranchers began cutting the barbed wire fences to take their cattle to where they had always driven them to water, to fresh grazing lands, or to market. The cutting of the barbed wire fences set off the wars between the little man and cattle barons. The cattle barons took the law into their hands, since the nearest lawman was hundreds of miles away. They shot and hung many men during the years of their reign over the land. There were several "mobs", which were comprised of the cattle barons and their men, but they all joined together to become known as "The San Saba Mob". They ruled the land until the government finally took over and re-defined the counties to create smaller counties and brought in new lawmen and The Texas Rangers.
Many lives were lost during this time, and many books have been written about this time, not to mention giving movie makers much foder for making their Western movies.
FROM the book "Mills County - The Way It Was"
"Sebe Arnold was a cowboy from McCullough County, Texas, and worked for a large ranch there. He was sent by his employer to round up horses belonging to the ranch that had strayed to Mills County. While rounding up the horses, he was warned by a group of men who thought him stealing the horses, to leave the territory immediately. Sebe was not afraid and continued with his work. When the same group of men came upon him the next morning, he was hanged from the nearest tree and buried under it's branches.
Many years later, a prairie fire killed the tree, and it is now a blackened stump. The limb from which Sebe Arnold was hanged rests over the headstone that a friend had placed at his grave. His name is hand-carved in the stone, and flowers decorate the corners of the marker."
The custom of the day was to hang horse theives. I'm guessing Sebe was a very young man, not to have heeded the warning of the group of ranchers and return to his employer for help and to relate the story of the warning. He was probably in his late teens or early 20's, as a man of maturity and experience would have taken the warning seriously.
Being from another County, Sebe was probably not aware of the Mob they called The San Saba Mob, that was a group of wealthy ranchers who had come into the area, buying up large parcels of land to ranch, then putting up barbed wire fences to mark their property lines. This caused much distress, and uproar with the smaller cattle ranchers, as it cut off the little rancher's access to get their cattle to water, to other pastures for grazing, and to take their cattle to market. So, the smaller cattle ranchers began cutting the barbed wire fences to take their cattle to where they had always driven them to water, to fresh grazing lands, or to market. The cutting of the barbed wire fences set off the wars between the little man and cattle barons. The cattle barons took the law into their hands, since the nearest lawman was hundreds of miles away. They shot and hung many men during the years of their reign over the land. There were several "mobs", which were comprised of the cattle barons and their men, but they all joined together to become known as "The San Saba Mob". They ruled the land until the government finally took over and re-defined the counties to create smaller counties and brought in new lawmen and The Texas Rangers.
Many lives were lost during this time, and many books have been written about this time, not to mention giving movie makers much foder for making their Western movies.
Death date unknown now. (Probably c.1894-1898)
FROM the book "Mills County - The Way It Was"
"Sebe Arnold was a cowboy from McCullough County, Texas, and worked for a large ranch there. He was sent by his employer to round up horses belonging to the ranch that had strayed to Mills County. While rounding up the horses, he was warned by a group of men who thought him stealing the horses, to leave the territory immediately. Sebe was not afraid and continued with his work. When the same group of men came upon him the next morning, he was hanged from the nearest tree and buried under it's branches.
Many years later, a prairie fire killed the tree, and it is now a blackened stump. The limb from which Sebe Arnold was hanged rests over the headstone that a friend had placed at his grave. His name is hand-carved in the stone, and flowers decorate the corners of the marker."
The custom of the day was to hang horse theives. I'm guessing Sebe was a very young man, not to have heeded the warning of the group of ranchers and return to his employer for help and to relate the story of the warning. He was probably in his late teens or early 20's, as a man of maturity and experience would have taken the warning seriously.
Being from another County, Sebe was probably not aware of the Mob they called The San Saba Mob, that was a group of wealthy ranchers who had come into the area, buying up large parcels of land to ranch, then putting up barbed wire fences to mark their property lines. This caused much distress, and uproar with the smaller cattle ranchers, as it cut off the little rancher's access to get their cattle to water, to other pastures for grazing, and to take their cattle to market. So, the smaller cattle ranchers began cutting the barbed wire fences to take their cattle to where they had always driven them to water, to fresh grazing lands, or to market. The cutting of the barbed wire fences set off the wars between the little man and cattle barons. The cattle barons took the law into their hands, since the nearest lawman was hundreds of miles away. They shot and hung many men during the years of their reign over the land. There were several "mobs", which were comprised of the cattle barons and their men, but they all joined together to become known as "The San Saba Mob". They ruled the land until the government finally took over and re-defined the counties to create smaller counties and brought in new lawmen and The Texas Rangers.
Many lives were lost during this time, and many books have been written about this time, not to mention giving movie makers much foder for making their Western movies.
FROM the book "Mills County - The Way It Was"
"Sebe Arnold was a cowboy from McCullough County, Texas, and worked for a large ranch there. He was sent by his employer to round up horses belonging to the ranch that had strayed to Mills County. While rounding up the horses, he was warned by a group of men who thought him stealing the horses, to leave the territory immediately. Sebe was not afraid and continued with his work. When the same group of men came upon him the next morning, he was hanged from the nearest tree and buried under it's branches.
Many years later, a prairie fire killed the tree, and it is now a blackened stump. The limb from which Sebe Arnold was hanged rests over the headstone that a friend had placed at his grave. His name is hand-carved in the stone, and flowers decorate the corners of the marker."
The custom of the day was to hang horse theives. I'm guessing Sebe was a very young man, not to have heeded the warning of the group of ranchers and return to his employer for help and to relate the story of the warning. He was probably in his late teens or early 20's, as a man of maturity and experience would have taken the warning seriously.
Being from another County, Sebe was probably not aware of the Mob they called The San Saba Mob, that was a group of wealthy ranchers who had come into the area, buying up large parcels of land to ranch, then putting up barbed wire fences to mark their property lines. This caused much distress, and uproar with the smaller cattle ranchers, as it cut off the little rancher's access to get their cattle to water, to other pastures for grazing, and to take their cattle to market. So, the smaller cattle ranchers began cutting the barbed wire fences to take their cattle to where they had always driven them to water, to fresh grazing lands, or to market. The cutting of the barbed wire fences set off the wars between the little man and cattle barons. The cattle barons took the law into their hands, since the nearest lawman was hundreds of miles away. They shot and hung many men during the years of their reign over the land. There were several "mobs", which were comprised of the cattle barons and their men, but they all joined together to become known as "The San Saba Mob". They ruled the land until the government finally took over and re-defined the counties to create smaller counties and brought in new lawmen and The Texas Rangers.
Many lives were lost during this time, and many books have been written about this time, not to mention giving movie makers much foder for making their Western movies.
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