John Wesley Hardin was released on February 17th, 1894 after serving more than fifteen and a half years of a twenty-five year sentence behind bars. Two years earlier his wife Jane died of an undisclosed illness. He moved to Gonzales to be near his children but soon moved on.
He headed for the Hill Country to a town called London, where, after a brief courtship, he married 15-

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