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With our town's connection to the Earps it's no surprise that other names have been popping up & questions circulating about history with the Clantons, Claiborns & the well-beloved name of Haught. The following is a brief thread of Haught family history 
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First, an extensive Haught family genealogy was published 1948, which gives a short introduction to the Haught's arriving in America from Holland in 1751, initially with the family name of HAUT - You can find the link below - but lets skip to 1880s: (2/20)
http://genealogy.park.lib.wv.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Genealogy-of-the-Haught-Family-of-America.pdf
http://genealogy.park.lib.wv.us/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Genealogy-of-the-Haught-Family-of-America.pdf
Fred Haught left Texas in search of more wide-open cattle country in Arizona, around 1882. Fred settled on the Mogollon Rim. Being one of the first white settlers in the ancestral Apache area, you can still find trails & plaques that bear his name. (3/20) https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/arizona/fred-haught-trail
Fred convinced his brother Samuel Ache (Sam) Haught (born 1857) & his wife Dagmar, to move from Dallas, Texas to the Tonto Basin in Arizona in 1885, bringing with 350 head of cattle at a time, through 3 trips back and forth, each time over 1400 miles. (4/20)
Sam would later brag that he 'never lost a cow' during this trek. Originally settled in Rye, they later moved to Walnut Creek in Pleasant Valley. The Haughts continued their extensive ranch of 10,000 head (H-Bar Ranch) building a large ranch house & Pennsylvania-style barn.(5/20)
The story goes that a drifting cowboy, infected with diphtheria, passed through, stayed with the family, and drank from the common water dipper - and within 3 weeks in August 1892, their 4 children (Ollie, Oscar, Otto, & Valta) died from the disease. Two more children (...)(6/20)
were born to the Haughts, Mildred Juanita and Jim Sam, but Dagmar never fully recovered from the loss of her four children. The 4 diseased children were buried in the newly established Haught Cemetery adjacent to the ranch. (7/20)
Sam Haught was elected to the first Territorial Legislature, representing Gila County, in 1905. Sam was also the postmaster, owner of the General store & involved in mining. Dagmar became the postmistress in 1907. To attend the Legislature sessions in Phoenix (...)(8/20)
Sam had to travel 3 days by horseback. Each session lasted 60 days and Sam would remain in Phoenix in that duration. Able to obtain the funding for the Gila County courthouse in Globe, the structure still bears his name on the facade plaque. (9/20)
In her unhappiness of Sam's prolonged absences, rumors of infidelity, & the grief over their children's deaths, Dagmar divorced Sam in 1909. The H-Bar Ranch was sold to the Chilson brothers with half the money going to Dagmar & gave her $20,000 for each of the 2 children (10/20).
Eventually S.A. Haught moved to a ranch west of Young, Arizona on Walnut Creek & married Millie Katherine (Carrie) Hunnicutt. Carrie was the sister of Ella Haught, the wife of Anderson Lee "Babe" Haught (Sam's cousin) who had established a ranch on Tonto Creek. (11/20)
Babe Haught was close w/ the "Western" Author, Zane Grey. Gray traveled to Arizona for bear & mountain lion hunting trips w/ Babe & his sons, later moving to AZ from the East Coast. You can find some of Grey's writings (w/ mentions of the Haught family)
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12225/12225-h/12225-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12225/12225-h/12225-h.htm
Edd Haught, son of Babe Haught, was a ranger with the R-C Scout Boy Scout Ranch during the early years, becoming the first R-C ranger in 1945. A plaque still commemorates him at the R-C Scout Ranch. (13/20)
Carrie, Babe's sister-in-law, had 3 children from a previous marriage but she and Sam later had 7 more children: Alfred, twins Homer and Hubert, Austin, and Frank. Linda Ortega (nee Haught), Sam and Carrie's grandaughter, recalled "in those days when you traveled (...)(14/20)
you would stop at the ranches and they would feed you. Many, many people would come by there for their hospitality. Sam Haught died in 1945 and in 1950 Carrie married Columbus Martin. She died on in 1977.
Recalling his birth, son Austin Haught said his father (...)(15/20).
Recalling his birth, son Austin Haught said his father (...)(15/20).
was 70yo & his mother was 46yo. Austin was born in Payson at the hospital due to his mother's high risk pregnancy. At 6 weeks old his mother traveled back through Hell's Gate on horseback, toward home. Asked jokingly 'you didn't stop and fish?' he replied (...)(16/20).
'Ha! no I wanted to, but they wouldn't let me off!" He also recalled that his father was 6'6 and his uncle 6'4.
The Haught family cemetery was on land later purchased by the Forest Service, but after WWII, Austin Haught later re-acquired that section of the family land. (17/20)
The Haught family cemetery was on land later purchased by the Forest Service, but after WWII, Austin Haught later re-acquired that section of the family land. (17/20)
You can listen to a 4-part Haught family audio history at the link below, produced by the Arizona Memory Project. Interviewed are: Austin Haught, son of Sam Haught; Linda Ortega & Joe Haught, the grandchildren of Sam Haught. (TW for some racial language) https://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/digital/collection/ahrranch/id/7/rec/12
While the Haught family has a very real, lively history of their own, there has been rumors circulating in Purgatory that the reappearance of the Clantons in public life is no accident and neither is our former Sheriff's last name...
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Whispers circulate that the 'drifter cowboy' who infected the Haught children w/ diphtheria was none other than Wyatt or Virgil Earp - passing by on business.
If you have further info about Haught family or any other possible Earp-Haught connections, please contact PAS. (20/20).
If you have further info about Haught family or any other possible Earp-Haught connections, please contact PAS. (20/20).
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