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JUL 1 71S37
Lrs. Belle Lilgore
718 .a1.1c .treet
Clovis, Lew Mexico
300 "ords
J. CA7V-R
511 Sheldon Street
5Clovis, ew
Dr. C...rver lives alone in his 00 utiful wnite stucco two -room
.ome. It cont-ins taree apartments. Dr. Carver had just come from
an address given over the radio. .e is ore of the ministers of
Clovis and zort lee who gives snort adtresses every day at 930
concering so e vital toiAc both in siAritual and national interest.
iho subject of tills sketch w. s born nc-r Cleveland uhio in
i870. He was ed c ted t Franklin Instute Cleveland Qhio. Ho
and his mother c'Ime to /;ew Mexico in 1907 and filed on land west
of Clovis near Grier.
Je cir3ulated a petition, to orginize the first _resbyterian
Church in Clovis and was the pastor who was called to this church,
but he did not serve as the first pastor.
I am what is c lied a risionary in the Pr sbyterian church.
Admost all of th c'qurches in the Few :exico towns were through
my instrwrentqlity.
The hardships nd pleasure7. 770 JOMMOJ to to settlers of
this country, who came fro- the e stern st toe.
"I do not recall any legend or folk lore of tnis immediate
section of Lew Zexico. Of course, you .are famili r with the
"eiaga of Billy the Kid ,s told by the romantic and heroic writers,
in whose writings there seems to be evidence that Billy the Kid
was notkilled by EirGarrett, but that he lived to be an old man
Jr. -rver
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down ne r Mania, .Lexas, ,,nd died only a few ye rs ago."
"There are thre re'sons why so many people think that he was
not killed, one is that his sister cme out to see him and then did
not go to his grave, but went diroclly east. That his horse was
never seen .1gain, is noth,r /%1Lson. Third isthat Pete Maxwell
and Pat G. rrett were his friends, and th't a ITexican was buried in-
sted of Billy the Kid, and th,t he Billy the Kid went down in Texas
on the Rio grande."
I should have had another interview with Dr. C rver, but
I did not get to fill the appointment.