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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. 11, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1981
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:
October 15, 1981
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1979
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 15, 1979
Creator:
Alexander, Rocky
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1976
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 15, 1976
Creator:
Groff, Jill
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Flood aftermath]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
August 15, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Latest Texas news]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Texas based associated press new stories.
Date:
August 15, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Western Texan (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1971
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:
October 15, 1971
Creator:
Simpson, Mike
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Mrs. J. O. Curry addressed to T. N. Carswell - September 15, 1952]
A postcard addressed to Mr. T. N. Carswell, Abilene, Texas from Mrs. J. O. Curry, Snyder, Tx., postmarked Snyder, Texas, September 15, 1952. The reverse side includes correspondence to Mr. Carswell from Mrs. J. O. Curry. Curry advises Carswell that Jay is still on the same well but is about to finish and that they do not know if they will drill another.
Date:
September 15, 1952
Creator:
Curry, Mrs. J. O.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. FIVE, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1921
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 15, 1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. FORTY-FOUR, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1921
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 15, 1921
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR, No. EIGHTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 15, 1920
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-THIRD YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1919
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 15, 1919
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-SECOND YEAR, No. TWENTY-TWO, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 15, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. FORTY, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 15, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. THIRTY-SIX, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 15, 1918
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-NINTH YEAR, No. EIGHTEEN, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
October 15, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. THIRTY-ONE, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
January 15, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Speculum.
Patent for an improved speculum, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 15, 1914
Creator:
P'Pool, Frank E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 15, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 15, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flat Iron Heater
Patent for "a receptacle insertible within a stove opening in which the irons to be heated are placed" (lines 11-13), including illustrations.
Date:
April 15, 1913
Creator:
Martin, Enoch
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
November 15, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
March 15, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
December 15, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 15, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History