Billy & Jimmy

This is William H. Bonner (1859 - 1881) as a young man.  There are no pictures of William as an old man because he never got to be old.  He was known better as "Billy the Kid".

He was killed as a young man by lawman Pat Garrett.

I wonder what Billy would have been like if he lived in our age and in Marietta.  In other words, if he was a friend in our formative years:  Would he turn garbage cans over with on the way home from Boy Scout meeting?  Would he hide in the woods with and hollow scary sounds to the teacher in a classroom who he knew would freak out?  Would he "roll" the opposing high school's marching band during half time of a football game so that all the marching musicians would be tangled up in steams of toilet paper?  Would he learn to learn to sign his father's name and forge his name to reports sent from his teacher to his dad?  There are much more but I'm not sure about the statue of limitatons on some of it, even if the culprit is dead.  You see, we had a friend named Jimmy Pat who did all those things, but he died too.  Jimmy Pat did not die of unnatural causes though, he died of heart failure when bending over to pick up his lap dog.