Notes for: Charles Walter MCFADDIN
It appears that "Charlie" missed all of the excitement surrounding the discovery of oil at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901. In the1880s he allegedly was involved in the killing of a man found skinning one of the McFaddin cattle in south Jefferson County. The cattle rustler turned out to be the son of Worth Patridge, the Chief Justice of the County Court. Young "Charlie" was reportedly sent off to Idaho by his father to avoid the long arm of the law. There, Charles W. McFaddin had his first son, but apparently didn't care much for the climate. His third child, Ethel, reputedly was born and raised in Mexico. But at some date Charles W. moved the family to Edwards Co. in west Texas, where he was "among one of the early families to ranch in the area." He later settled in Casa Grande, Arizona, where he purchased a 4,000 acre ranch,reportedly with the assistance of his father.
Charles W. had ten children by two wives. Continuing the tradition set by his father, all of his children were educated in Texas, and his eldest son, James Ellis McFaddin, became a sheriff and later justice of the peace in Casa Grande, Arizona. [email David McFaddin 21 July 2000]