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The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style
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In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand …
Date:
August 15, 2010
Creator:
O'Neal, Bill
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 18, 1982
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
November 18, 1982
Creator:
Moesch, John
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 1980
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
February 28, 1980
Creator:
Gleason, Lois
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, April 25, 1980
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas that includes campus news and news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date:
April 25, 1980
Creator:
Gleason, Lois
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Levi and Evelyn Taylor, September 19, 1998
Interview with Levi and Evelyn Taylor, former owners of Kerrville's well-loved restaurant, "The Grove," from Ingram, Texas. The couple talks about the history of their restaurant, the day-to-day operation of the establishment, local people and places, and moving back to the area after a short stint in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Date:
September 19, 1998
Creator:
Rector, William; Grayson, Dorothy; Taylor, Levi & Taylor, Evelyn
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 1921
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 11, 1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 10, 1911
Creator:
Barnes, E. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 31, 1913
Creator:
Midkiff, Will M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
June 23, 1911
Creator:
Barnes, E. B. & Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas and Southwestern Lore
Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date:
1927
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 7, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 1981
Proceedings of the 17th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. Includes the event program, meeting minutes for the April 4, 1981 SWFAS Executive Committee, and the SWFAS by-laws.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Couzzourt, Jim
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History