Frank McLaury born Robert Findley McLaury was an American outlaw.
16 Facts About Frank McLaury
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Frank McLaury was one of eleven children born to Margaret Rowland and Robert Houston McLaury, a descendant of Matthew McClaughry of Ireland and his son Thomas McClaughry of Kortright, New York.
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The Frank McLaury family worked a farm in Merideth, Delaware County, New York.
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Frank McLaury was the father of 11 children, six of them sons.
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Frank McLaury's father remarried widow and neighbor Jane Arbuthnot on September 13,1860.
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Eight of his siblings including Frank McLaury were still living at home, as were eight of Jane's children.
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Frank's older brother Edwin McLaury joined the 14th Iowa Volunteers, which saw action at the battle of Fort Donelson and Pittsburgh Landing.
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Tom and Frank McLaury helped their father work the 800 acres farm.
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In 1872, the elder McLaury, aged 65, remarried 35-year-old widow Ann Lavina Leigh; she was two years younger than Frank and had five children from her previous marriage ranging in age from 2 to 13 years old.
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Frank McLaury briefly assisted local constable Melvin Jones in apprehending soldiers who had stolen government horse harnesses.
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The Frank McLaury brothers were suspected of stealing cattle from Sonora, Mexico and re-selling them to Old Man Clanton and local butchers.
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Early in 1881, shortly after Cochise County was created, Tom and Frank McLaury moved their ranching operations to the Sulphur Springs Valley.
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On October 26,1881, the Frank McLaury brothers were in Tombstone to conclude a cattle deal.
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Ike Clanton had been cited earlier in the day for carrying a weapon in town, after which Tom Frank McLaury had arrived to get Ike.
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Tom Frank McLaury had $3,000 in his possession when he died during the shootout, a fact that the prosecution emphasized during the preliminary hearing that followed the shoot out.
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Frank McLaury said that they were in Tombstone on business, with plans to depart shortly afterward to visit him in Texas.