Pat Garrett, born Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett near Cusseta, Alabama, on June 5, 1850, was one of six children of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis. His family moved to Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, in 1853, and in 1869 he left the family plantation to become a buffalo hunter in Texas. As sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, elected in November 1880 during a struggle for political and financial control of the county, Garrett was charged with tracking down and arresting Billy the Kid, a friend from Garrett's saloon keeping days in Fort Sumner. Billy the Kid, also known as Henry McCarty or William H. Bonney, had become the focus of the feud after he murdered Sheriff William Brady on April 1, 1878. Garrett captured him in December 1880, and Billy the Kid was subsequently convicted of murder, but he escaped from jail on April 18, 1881. Garrett tracked him to Fort Sumner on July 14, where Billy the Kid was shot and killed. Following the death of his first wife, Juanita Gutierrez, Garrett married her sister Apolonaria in Lincoln County in 1880, and they became the parents of nine children. In 1889 Garrett moved to Uvalde, Texas, where he was elected county commissioner. He was appointed sheriff of Dona Ana County, New Mexico, in 1896, and on December 20, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him U.S. customs collector in El Paso, Texas, a position he held for five years. Garrett was murdered by Jesse Wayne Brazel on February 29, 1908, and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Las Cruces, New Mexico.