Sheriff bob ollinger biography

American Old West lawman (–)

Robert Ameredith B. "Pecos Bob" Olinger ( in Delphi, Indiana – April 28, in Lincoln, New Mexico) was a frontier lawman best known as the last victim of Billy the Kid and as a participant in the Lincoln County War.

Early life and career

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Olinger^[1] was born around March to William C. Olinger and his wife Rebecca Robinson in Carroll County, Indiana.^[2] They moved to Delaware, Polk County, Iowa and were living there at the time of the Iowa State Census.^[3] The Olingers then moved to Mound City, Linn County, Kansas Territory, arriving there in They were still there when the U.S.

Census was taken.^[4] William C. Olinger died at age 37 in ^[5] His widow, Rebecca, remarried to a Joshua Stafford. The Stafford-Olinger family was living in Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas in ^[6] The family then moved to the Indian Territory, which would later become Oklahoma.

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