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Author: BevAnderson91
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William Carver of The Wild Bunch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carver_(Wild_Bunch)
Will Carver was shot by a sheriff at Sonora, Texas on April 1, 1901, died the following
day on April 2, and is buried in Sonora, TX. There was an old west magazine that had a
photo of his grave marker sometime back in the mid-1980s.
It's my understanding from Donna Ernst who wrote a biography about him that Will
Carver descend from a Carver line that emigrated from England to Pennsylvania about the
late 1600s or early 1700s; from there, various people migrated westward. It's my
understanding that there is now a suburb named Carver, Pennsylvania named for their
family.
Here's Donna's web site, along with a timeline of William Carver's life,
dates, parents' names, relatives' names, etc. He had several relationships, his
first wife died six months into the marriage of pregnancy complications, but he
doesn't seem to have fathered any children that I can see any mention of. To
authenticate your own genealogy research, you will have to get your own documents, of
course.
http://willcarver.150m.com/
Donna gives info about the biography she wrote about Will Carver, and links to other web
sites, and her email address is listed.
Here's a web site with a face photo of Will Carver's dead body.
http://www.truewestmagazine.com/stories/will_carver_checks_out/73/all/
Here's a copy of Will Carver's headstone. It only lists the date of death. Link
to list of graves first, then link to photo.
http://www.cemphotos.com/tx/tx-sonora/
http://www.cemphotos.com/tx/tx-sonora/FAMOUS_OUTLAW_CARVER_William.jpg
Scroll down for alleged signature of Will Carver from 1895:
http://www.sonora-texas.com/history.htm
Hope these links help you. Probably the best contact will be through Donna Ernst and her
info since she had to research the family for her book.
[I only know this info because I have an ancestor named Wills (with an s ending, not short
for William) Carver who descends from Robert Carver, nephew of Gov. John Carver of the
Mayflower. I was curious about the name, contacted Donna, and found out her info. I know
I am definitely not related to the Philadelphia Carvers since they came from an entirely
different area of England.]
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