After spending the majority of her inheritance, Ada Morley's second husband disappeared, leaving her in charge of the ranch. Shortly after her second marriage, the family moved to a ranch near Datil, New Mexico. Her siblings were William Raymond 'Ray, ' born in 1876 Ada Loraine 'Lora, ' born in 1878 and Benjamin Franklin who died in infancy. Her parents were William Raymond Morley, a location engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad and manager of the Maxwell Grant, and Ada McPherson Morley. Most of all you will enjoy the adventures this fatherless girl, her brother, and her widowed mother have as they all learn to handle the ranch that William Raymond Morley left them after he was shot.Īgnes Morley Cleaveland was born in 1874 in Cimarron, New Mexico. They built the 'White House' in Datil Canyon, now called White House Canyon - and the ranch was the drag-A ranch.īorn in 1874 on a primitive cattle ranch in what was to become New Mexico, Agnes Morley Cleaveland lived the reality of the 'Wild West.' With her you learn to ride almost before you can walk, deal with outlaws, hunt grizzlies, and watch the many changes she regrets: the invasion of the country by writers and tourists, theatrical changes in cowboys, and government encroachment. His widow, Ray's mother, Ada McPhearson Morley, moved to Datil with her three children - Agnes and Lorraine, and 'Ray'. 'Exposing the 1883 Murder of William Raymond Morley' is a book on that subject. William Raymond Morley Sr invested in a large ranch near Datil and was killed in 1883, in Santa Rosalia Mexico. Born in Cimarron NM, his father was an engineer for the Santa Fe RR and surveyed the grade over Raton Pass.

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