MAUD HAWK WRIGHT A stronger, tougher, more resilient woman has not yet been born than Maud. She tumbled into the world on Memorial Day, 1889 in Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama. She was the eldest of five siblings being raised by Thomas Austin Hawk and his wife, Louisa Belle Russell. Like many before him Tom Hawk sought improved opportunity further west. By 1909 the family found themselves in Silver City, New Mexico. Within a year she had eloped with a burly fellow named Ed Wright. They got married and Ed started up a ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. The happy couple was joined by a son named John Edward in 1914. The ranch was beginning to show signs of prosperity by February of 1916 when it was raided by Pancho Villa’s Army. All of the cattle were stolen
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