On Newspapers.com I have found two articles that make me question whether the John Yoast of Arizona and the John B. Yoast of New Mexico are the same person. Both are dated after 1900, with one reporting... more
Bob, Hogge has your question covered in his book . John and Bert Yost were brothers that lived in the Sulphur Springs Valley . Their name was actually spelled “Yost”, in the newspapers their named would... more
Thanks, Robert. So now we have to rule out the John Yoast killed in 1927 in Salerno, Arizona as being the man who found Ringo. A lot of Yoasts and Yosts hanging around Arizona and New Mexico from the 1880s... more
The Daily Herald , March 18, 1876 “Quite an excitement was raised among our citizens last Sunday by the arrival in town of the notorious Mason County outlaws Scott Cooley and John Ringgold , who was... more
Robert, as a previous post of mine points out, there is some speculation, including by law enforcement personnel conversant in suicide scenes, that sometimes a gunshot that close to the head could cause... more
CLARIFICATION: Re: John B. Yoast — Bob Cash,Tue Jun 29 2021 9:19
Frank Yoast — Robert Buckley,Tue Jun 29 2021 16:54
Frank Yoast was the father of John B.Yoast and Hiram A. Yoast . https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83021327/1871-08-24/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1871&index=0&rows=20&words=Frank+Yoast&searchType=ba... more