JAMES STOCKTON LANGLEY
1874
BELL COUNTY, TEXAS
IKE STOCKTON,
1878
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
Ike gave water from a ditch, in his hat, to a dying deputy sheriff, George Hindman. Hindman was mortally wounded by Billy the Kid. This was after Billy [William Bonney] had sworn to avenge the shooting of his boss, John H. Tunstall, killed on Feb 18th, 1878. Sherriff Major Brady was supposed to have been responsible for the Law shooting Tunstall.
SAM, IKE, PORTER STOCKTON
APRIL 1880
NEAR LAS VEGAS, NEVADA.
This is concerned with “Whisky Jim” Greathouse. A cowboy called “West Brown” and a kid named Ike Snow drove 14 head of Texas horses into Greathouse’s ranch at Oche de Mil Egre near Las Vegas, Nevada in April 1880. “West Brown” was an alias for Sam Stockton, brother of Ike and Porter Stockton, wanted in Texas for killing a ranger. Sam was shot twice by John Farrington, Charles Goodnight’s range boss, whose horses they were. Stockton and Snow were lodged in Las Vegas Juzgado and then were taken back to Texas. Sam Stockton escaped and fled back to Colorado, where vigilantes hanged him for a murder committed during a robbery.
IKE STOCKTON
1881
NEAR RICO, TEXAS
Bert Wilkinson & Dyson Eskridge wanted to get help from Ike Stockton or Harg Eskridge after a shooting near Rico, Texas, on August 24th, 1881.
The Stockton Family Tree.