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Outlaw Billy Thompson - The Hough-Lowry Gang

Started by Private User on Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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<<< The so-called Hough-Lowry gang >>>
* Outlaw Billy Thompson ~> pulled out of a Lake County Oregon jail and lynched

* Charles Hough, outlaw ~> shot by a sheriff in the CoppersmithHills above Surprise Valley

* Outlaw Jeff Lowry ~> escaped death

Several California papers went on and on about these men. They weren't always accurate.

Other people involved:

* Sheriff Charles Christopher Rachford = shot Charley Hough dead

* Rollin Wilson Hough = Charley Hough's father

* Coffee child, accidentally shot = too young to be handling a gun

* Lydia Lowry Lydie Philpot was able to keep her husband hid until the controversy blew over.

This was also a story where the Maidu, Pitt River and Wintun tribes were involved as two of the three members of the Hough-Lowry gang were part Native American.... There may have been others...

As I went through the building of these profiles, I attached documents and stories from various sources. Many counties of Northern California were involved: Plumas, Lassen, Modoc, Sierra, Trinity, Shasta... and of course, Lake Co., Oregon

I'm using this discussion to make summaries.

In looking for the family of Outlaw Billy Thompson , I thought I had a match, but now I'm not including it.

The Thompson family parents w/children were compelled to leave California for Texas. So I searched on Thompsons born in CA and living in TX.
There weren't many form that era.
I started building a tree.> The family was headed by William B. Thompson who had a son William... but thisis inconclusive so far as it seems that that William Thompson (jr) never returned to CA... (more research needed)

Outlaw Abe Jones was also involved in the cast of criminals and/or criminality

Private User Youre awesome! Thanks for the great research! I am going to post it in my facebook group and give you credit! Thompson had a wife and daughter. But i dont have anything on his parents.

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