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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
[News Script: Snyder]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
August 13, 1972, 10:00 p.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 Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 4, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 11, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 18, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 25, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 25, 1911
Creator:
Hardy & Jackson
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 2, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 9, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 9, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 16, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 23, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 30, 1912
Creator:
Hardy, J. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 1, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 8, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 22, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 29, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, August 7, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 7, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 14, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR, No. TEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 21, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 21, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. EIGHT, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 3, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. NINE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 10, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 10, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. TEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 17, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 17, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. ELEVEN, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 24, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Snyder Signal. (Snyder, Tex.), Vol. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR, No. TWELVE, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1917
Weekly newspaper from Snyder, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
August 31, 1917
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History