Dr. J. R. Carver

Interview

Mrs. Belle Kilgore 

718 Wallace Street 

Clovis, New Mexico

JUL 17 1937 

300 Words 

DR. J.R. CARVER 

511 Sheldon Street 

5Clovis, New Mexico 

Dr. Carver lives alone in his beautiful white stucoo two-room home. It 
contains three apartments. Dr. Carver had just come from an address given over 
the radio, he in one of the ministers of Clovis and [Portales?] who given 
short addresses every day at 9:30 concering some vital topic both in spiritual 
and national interest. 

The subject of this sketch was born near Cleveland Ohio in 1870. He was 
educated at Franklin Instute Cleveland Ohio. He and his mother came to New 
Mexico in 1907 and filed on land west of Clovis near Grier. 

He circulated a petition to orginise the first Presbyterian Church in Clovis 
and was the pastor who was called to this church, but he did not serve as the 
first pastor. 

I am what is called a Misionary in the Presbyterian church. Almost all of the 
churches in the New Mexico towns were through my instrumentality. 

The hardships and pleasures were common to the settlers of this country, who 
came from the eastern states. C18 - N. Mex.

"I do not recall any legend or folk lore of this immediate section of New 
Mexico. Of course, you are familiar with the 

"Saga of Billy the Kid as told by the romantic and heroic writers, in whose 
writings there seems to be evidence that Billy the Kid was notkilled by 
[Par?]Garrett, but that he lived to be an old man 

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down near Marfia, Texas, and died only a few years ago." 

"There are three, reasons why so many people think that he was not killed, one 
is that his sister came out to see him and then did not go to his grave, but 
went direclly east. That his horse was never seen again, is another reason. 
Third , isthat Pete Maxwell and Pat Garrett were his friends, and that a 
Mexican was buried instead of Billy the Kid, and that he Billy tho Kid went 
down in Texas on the Rio grande." 

I should have had another interview with Dr. Carver, but I did not get to fill 
the appointment. 

Credit: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writers' Project 
Collection.

Curry

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