Comhroinn Fuaime

Number 8, The death record fought the survival rumors. Billy the Kid’s death did not stop people from claiming he had survived. That may sound strange, but it happens often with famous figures whose lives already feel half legendary. The missing modern death certificate gave those stories room to grow, even though territorial New Mexico did not handle death records the way a modern state would. In eighteen eighty one, the key official recognition was not a state issued death certificate. It was