(Ref: CARLSBAD CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Friday, September 9, 1955, front page and page 2, reads as follows:
COLORFUL
PIONEER
IS DEAD
A picturesque character of the fading West, 94-year-old
John David Washington, brother of the late Bill Washington, died Thursday at Meadows Home for the Aged at Las Vegas, where he had resided the past five years.
Funeral rites will be held here, but arrangements are pending word from relatives. Burial will be in the Carlsbad Cemetery. The Carpenter Funeral Home will be in charge of services.
Washington, who was born in Cooke County, Tex., March 4, 1861, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Frields of Fort Benton, Mont., one son, Harold Washington of Missoula, Mont., and a nephew, John Washington of Carlsbad.
Washington lived many years in Oklahoma and Montana, and then worked several years for the Martin Lewis family on Crow Flats and then lived on the Elmer Hepler ranch in Dog Canyon 11 years.
His early life was as colorful as that of his brother the late Bill Washington, who was a rancher near the New Mexico-Texas line many years.
Banged around quite a bit in a life time on the range, he carried a six-shooter for protection many years before he came to New Mexico. But in spite of it all, he still was a good hand in his late 80's until he suffered a broken hip in a fall from a mule.
Washington's father, Russ Washington, drifted from Texas to Oklahoma where the Washington family played an important role in the development of the country. John built the first house in what is now the city of Ardmore, Okla., and ran his herds of cattle and horses in that area.
John Washington and his brothers, Bill, John and Jerry, were involved in many big cattle deals in the early days and boasted a vast empire in Oklahoma. He once recalled how his brother, Bill, sold a herd of cattle to pay off a $700,00 debt, and one occasion when he carried $20,000 in silver 100 miles in a buggy for a cattle transaction.
When the brothers dissolved partnership, Bill came to New Mexico and John headed for Montana where he lived 40 years.
John Washington, who was known in Montana as John Brown, once told friends he was always a peaceable man and never had any trouble with the law in his two-fisted frontier days. But he often told in an off hand manner of two outlaws being killed on his place by a posse of officers and another time when a horse thief was shot to death in his house.
COLORFUL
PIONEER
IS DEAD
A picturesque character of the fading West, 94-year-old
John David Washington, brother of the late Bill Washington, died Thursday at Meadows Home for the Aged at Las Vegas, where he had resided the past five years.
Funeral rites will be held here, but arrangements are pending word from relatives. Burial will be in the Carlsbad Cemetery. The Carpenter Funeral Home will be in charge of services.
Washington, who was born in Cooke County, Tex., March 4, 1861, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Frields of Fort Benton, Mont., one son, Harold Washington of Missoula, Mont., and a nephew, John Washington of Carlsbad.
Washington lived many years in Oklahoma and Montana, and then worked several years for the Martin Lewis family on Crow Flats and then lived on the Elmer Hepler ranch in Dog Canyon 11 years.
His early life was as colorful as that of his brother the late Bill Washington, who was a rancher near the New Mexico-Texas line many years.
Banged around quite a bit in a life time on the range, he carried a six-shooter for protection many years before he came to New Mexico. But in spite of it all, he still was a good hand in his late 80's until he suffered a broken hip in a fall from a mule.
Washington's father, Russ Washington, drifted from Texas to Oklahoma where the Washington family played an important role in the development of the country. John built the first house in what is now the city of Ardmore, Okla., and ran his herds of cattle and horses in that area.
John Washington and his brothers, Bill, John and Jerry, were involved in many big cattle deals in the early days and boasted a vast empire in Oklahoma. He once recalled how his brother, Bill, sold a herd of cattle to pay off a $700,00 debt, and one occasion when he carried $20,000 in silver 100 miles in a buggy for a cattle transaction.
When the brothers dissolved partnership, Bill came to New Mexico and John headed for Montana where he lived 40 years.
John Washington, who was known in Montana as John Brown, once told friends he was always a peaceable man and never had any trouble with the law in his two-fisted frontier days. But he often told in an off hand manner of two outlaws being killed on his place by a posse of officers and another time when a horse thief was shot to death in his house.
(Ref: CARLSBAD CURRENT-ARGUS, Carlsbad, Eddy County, New Mexico, dated for Friday, September 9, 1955, front page and page 2, reads as follows:
COLORFUL
PIONEER
IS DEAD
A picturesque character of the fading West, 94-year-old
John David Washington, brother of the late Bill Washington, died Thursday at Meadows Home for the Aged at Las Vegas, where he had resided the past five years.
Funeral rites will be held here, but arrangements are pending word from relatives. Burial will be in the Carlsbad Cemetery. The Carpenter Funeral Home will be in charge of services.
Washington, who was born in Cooke County, Tex., March 4, 1861, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Frields of Fort Benton, Mont., one son, Harold Washington of Missoula, Mont., and a nephew, John Washington of Carlsbad.
Washington lived many years in Oklahoma and Montana, and then worked several years for the Martin Lewis family on Crow Flats and then lived on the Elmer Hepler ranch in Dog Canyon 11 years.
His early life was as colorful as that of his brother the late Bill Washington, who was a rancher near the New Mexico-Texas line many years.
Banged around quite a bit in a life time on the range, he carried a six-shooter for protection many years before he came to New Mexico. But in spite of it all, he still was a good hand in his late 80's until he suffered a broken hip in a fall from a mule.
Washington's father, Russ Washington, drifted from Texas to Oklahoma where the Washington family played an important role in the development of the country. John built the first house in what is now the city of Ardmore, Okla., and ran his herds of cattle and horses in that area.
John Washington and his brothers, Bill, John and Jerry, were involved in many big cattle deals in the early days and boasted a vast empire in Oklahoma. He once recalled how his brother, Bill, sold a herd of cattle to pay off a $700,00 debt, and one occasion when he carried $20,000 in silver 100 miles in a buggy for a cattle transaction.
When the brothers dissolved partnership, Bill came to New Mexico and John headed for Montana where he lived 40 years.
John Washington, who was known in Montana as John Brown, once told friends he was always a peaceable man and never had any trouble with the law in his two-fisted frontier days. But he often told in an off hand manner of two outlaws being killed on his place by a posse of officers and another time when a horse thief was shot to death in his house.
COLORFUL
PIONEER
IS DEAD
A picturesque character of the fading West, 94-year-old
John David Washington, brother of the late Bill Washington, died Thursday at Meadows Home for the Aged at Las Vegas, where he had resided the past five years.
Funeral rites will be held here, but arrangements are pending word from relatives. Burial will be in the Carlsbad Cemetery. The Carpenter Funeral Home will be in charge of services.
Washington, who was born in Cooke County, Tex., March 4, 1861, is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Pauline Frields of Fort Benton, Mont., one son, Harold Washington of Missoula, Mont., and a nephew, John Washington of Carlsbad.
Washington lived many years in Oklahoma and Montana, and then worked several years for the Martin Lewis family on Crow Flats and then lived on the Elmer Hepler ranch in Dog Canyon 11 years.
His early life was as colorful as that of his brother the late Bill Washington, who was a rancher near the New Mexico-Texas line many years.
Banged around quite a bit in a life time on the range, he carried a six-shooter for protection many years before he came to New Mexico. But in spite of it all, he still was a good hand in his late 80's until he suffered a broken hip in a fall from a mule.
Washington's father, Russ Washington, drifted from Texas to Oklahoma where the Washington family played an important role in the development of the country. John built the first house in what is now the city of Ardmore, Okla., and ran his herds of cattle and horses in that area.
John Washington and his brothers, Bill, John and Jerry, were involved in many big cattle deals in the early days and boasted a vast empire in Oklahoma. He once recalled how his brother, Bill, sold a herd of cattle to pay off a $700,00 debt, and one occasion when he carried $20,000 in silver 100 miles in a buggy for a cattle transaction.
When the brothers dissolved partnership, Bill came to New Mexico and John headed for Montana where he lived 40 years.
John Washington, who was known in Montana as John Brown, once told friends he was always a peaceable man and never had any trouble with the law in his two-fisted frontier days. But he often told in an off hand manner of two outlaws being killed on his place by a posse of officers and another time when a horse thief was shot to death in his house.
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