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Husband: Hiram Joseph STERLING (1,2)
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         AKA: Harry STERLING, Harry WALTERS (3)
   Birthdate: 30 Aug 1885 - Mexia, Limestone, Texas, USA (4,5,6,7)
  Death date: 20 Sep 1961 - Chula Vista, San Diego, California, USA (8,9)
      Buried: 23 May 1962 - Chula Vista, San Diego, California, USA
     Address: Ocean View Cemetery, San Diego County, Chula Vista, California
      Father: Charles Joseph STERLING (1857-1932) (10,11)
      Mother: Lidia Jane GIBBONS (1860-1957) (12,13)
    Marriage: Abt 1908                       Place: , , Texas, USA (14)
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Other Spouse: Goldie GRIFFITH (1893-1976) (15,16)   Date: Cir 1912 - New York, New York, New
               York, USA
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   Wife: Nina STEPHENS (17,18,19)
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   Birthdate: 16 Apr 1887 - , , Texas, USA (20,21)
  Death date: 19 Dec 1956 - Houston, Harris, Texas, USA (22)
      Buried: 21 Dec 1956 - Teague, Freestone, Texas, USA (22)
     Address: Hopewell Cemetery, Freestone County, Texas
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Other Spouse: Joshua James SELLARS (1893-1951) (23,24,25)
              Date: 17 Aug 1919 - , Harris, Texas, USA (26,27)
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Children
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1  F  Foye STERLING SELLARS (28,29)
   Birthdate: 27 Oct 1910 - Teague, Freestone, Texas, USA (30,31)
  Death date: 6 May 2010 - , Tarrant, Texas, USA (29)
      Buried:
      Spouse: I don't think she married.
  Marr. Date:
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General Notes: Husband - Hiram Joseph STERLING
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I'm not actually related to Hiram but his story fascinates me. He's a distant first cousin to my
children. He had two (known) children and it doesn't look like he raised either of them but I
don't hold it against him. James Sellars raised Foye and Goldie and Allie raised Russell. Either
Hiram or Mr Hinkle was a great story-teller. Hiram had no sister named Edith who married a movie
star unless it was very late in life and she didn't tell her family. There IS an Edythe Sterling
but she isn't Hiram's sister.

Killed a man from Teague in 1910 over a dog fight in which the other man's dog was killed. [Mr
Whitt was actually killed in 1907 (from his g-grandchild).]

[I've shortened this article for this report, I have the original.]
From an article on the Internet, MILT HINKLE by Kerry Ross Boren
     With Milt in South America was one of his best friends, a superb cowboy named Harry Smith.
His real name was Harum Sterling, and he had good-cause to change his name, for he had killed a
man in 1911. He took the name Harry Smith because he had his initials, H.S., tattooed on his
left arm.
     Harry walked into a livery stable at Mexia, Texas, followed by his dog, Old Pal. The livery
owner didn't like Harry's dog, half-bulldog, half-leopard spotted cow-dog, and he opened a box
stall and released his own pit-fighting bulldog which had killed six other pit bulls in matches.
Old Pal began to get the best of the pit bull, and the owner picked up a pitchfork with which to
stab the dog. Harry took the pitchfork away from him, and the man ran into his office and
retrieved a six-gun. Harry was faster and shot the man in the heart. Old Pal killed the bulldog,
too, and two witnesses saw it all.
     Harry left Texas and joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and while with the show married
Goldie Griffith, the Champion Cowgirl Bucking Horse Rider of the World, on horseback at the old
Madison Square Garden. (Ironically, at about the same time, Harry's sister, Edythe Sterling, was
marrying silent film cowboy actor and rodeo cowboy Art Acord on horseback in the arena of the
Pioneer Days Rodeo in Salt Lake City.)
     Harry joined the Miller Brothers 101 Wild West Show in 1913. On October 13, 1913, a rainy
day in Houston, Texas, Milt Hinkle stepped down from his gray horse to find the guns of two big
detectives. Because he was wearing white Angora chaps, such as Harry Smith wore, they mistook
him for Harry. A lady pointed out that they had the wrong man, and, pointing at Harry, said,
"That's the one!" Harry tried to duck under the sidewall of a tent and one of the policemen
aimed at him with his gun. "For some reason," wrote Milt, "I bumped into the cop as he Pulled
the trigger. The bullet hit Harry in the left leg high up, but it didn't stop him. He made his
way to the stock cars.
     "When we loaded the horses, Chester Byers and Amos Clayton saw him and got him to lay low,
and when the train was loaded, Chester and Clayton put him in an empty boxcar that was marked
dead-head to Chicago. They gave Harry two bottles of milk and some bread, and he arrived four
days later in Chicago where his wife lived with her mother. Goldie cut the bullet out of his
hip."
     After Harry healed, he decided to join Milt and the 101 Show in South America to let things
cool down in the States. We came the last Sunday night performance of the show in Buenos Aires,
Milt was getting ready to leave for the Casey ranch. E Bowman and Harry Smith were going with
him, and they started to drive Milt's stock out of the horse tent when Ed Arlingtoy appeared and
demanded $100 for a feed bill. Milt lost his temper and cursed the man whom had used the horses
for free and now demanded a feed bill be paid for them.
     Milt directed Ed Bowman and Harry Smith to proceed with the horses. At this point,
Tantlinger and Bob Anderson-the latter of whom had been feuding with Milt-and several others
stepped in and tried to stop Harry Smith. Ed Arlington yelled out, loud enough for all to hear
"Harry, you know you're wanted in the United States for murder, so you'd better watch what you
do."
     Harry yelled back, just as loud, "And I'll be wanted for murder in this country, too if you
don't get out of my way!"
     "I saw that Harry was so mad he had tears in his eyes, and I knew this to be a danger
point, so I told him to keep moving. Harry had made several friends while with the show, but one
in particular that he went around with. They had been to parties together and got to be pretty
good pals, and just about the time our departure caused such a ruckus, up stepped this friend of
Harry's, and he proceeded to take command. First, he told the gaucho to get off his horse, and
then he mounted and rode over to me. He took my 30-30, and I saw that he also had a pistol. His
instructions then were, 'Let's ride!'
     "By this time the police had arrived, but so had Mr. Casey, and when he spoke to the
police, they stepped back, so we rode out of the Park with no more trouble.
     "I think I should explain here that the man who gave the command, 'Let's ride,' had been
one of the lieutenants of the well known Butch Cassidy Gang, and he had heard this same command
given many times by Butch when he headed his notorious band of desperadoes who robbed banks and
trains, and stole cattle. His hideout was in the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming, and since he
was one of Cassidy's head men, he had come to Argentina with much wealth. Here he had lived as a
ranchman for several years....
     "We made the trip cross-country to the Casey ranch without any trouble, taking two and
one-half days. I did not know who Harry's friend was who helped us the night we left the Park,
until Harry told me....
     "When my good friends, Harry Smith and Ed Bowman, left me, after helping me bring my stock
to the Casey ranch, I gave each one of them a good saddle horse. They went with the friend of
Butch Cassidy to his spread near Bahia Blanca, where they were to break horses and skin wild
cattle for their hides. It was some time before I saw them again."...
     There was an aftermath to this story that bears repeating. In the mid 1920s, Milt returned
to Buenos Aires with Art Acord's wild west Show. Art Acord, a Utah cowboy who became a western
movie star rival of Tom Mix, had first married the sister of Harum Sterling, alias Harry Smith,
and later Louise Lorraine, who played the first "Jane" in the Tarzan movies opposite Elmo
Lincoln.
     There was quite a gathering at the Sportivia that year as some members of the Wild Bunch
assembled to participate in Art's show. The livestock was provided by Kid Curry from his
estancia at Bahia Blanca, and Butch Cassidy was also present as a spectator.
     When the show closed, the "boys" had a wild party, and there was some inebriated
reminiscing, during which Art Acord's wife's nephew---of whom he had charged questioned whether
Butch and his friends had ever held up a bank. The youth's doubt soon grew into a challenge.
Under the leadership of Butch Cassidy-now approaching sixty years of age-the men organized a
"gang," sort of a "Wild Bunch IL" and rode to an outlying town in Argentina. The "gang"
consisted of Butch Cassidy; Kid Curry; Art Acord; Art's nephew, Harry Smith; Clay McGonigal;
and-Milt Hinkle.
     The result of the escapade was a daring daylight bank robbery. "It was the damnedest and
most foolish stunt I ever pulled," Milt said. "I had never done anything like that before, and I
sure as hell never did anything like that again!" ...


Last Modified: 3 Oct 2017

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Sources
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    1. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 59, pg 23B.  Hiram J Sterling.
    2. United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (FamilySearch.org), Sterling,
         Hiram Joseph.
    3. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Walters, Harry J.
         http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi
    4. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Sterling, Harry J.  30 Aug 1885, Texas.
    5. Social Security Death Index (FamilySearch.org), I found this by looking up his parents'
         names in the old index at RootsWeb. Unfortunately, you can no longer do that and I only
         recorded the number and the date information.
    6. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 59, pg 23B.  age 14, Sep 1886, Texas.
    7. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Walters, Harry J.  30 Aug 1885, Texas.
    8. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Sterling, Harry J.
    9. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Walters, Harry J.
    10. Londo, Ida, Charles Joseph Sterling.
    11. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 59, pg 23B.  Charles J Sterling.
    12. California State Death Index (RootsWeb.com), Sterling, Lydia.  Father: Gibbons.
    13. 1900 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 59, pg 23B.  Lidia J Sterling.
    14. 1910 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 42, pg 4A.  married 0 years.
    15. 1920 Federal Census, Colorado, Denver, ED 160, pg 4A.  Goldie Sterling.
    16. Social Security Death Index (FamilySearch.org), Cameron, Goldie.
    17. 1910 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 42, pg 4A.  Nina Stirling.
    18. Birth Certificate, Sterling #36114.  Nina Stephens.
    19. Death Certificate, Sellars, Nena #65042.  Father is listed as Tom R Stevens.
    20. 1910 Federal Census, Texas, Limestone, ED 42, pg 4A.  age 22, Texas.
    21. Death Certificate, Sellars, Nena #65042.  16 Apr 1887, Texas.
    22. Death Certificate, Sellars, Nena #65042.
    23. 1940 Federal Census, Texas, Harris, ED 258-16, pg 6A.  Joshia J Sellars.
    24. United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 (FamilySearch.org), Sellars,
         Joshua James.
    25. Death Certificate, Sellars, James #41446.
    26. 1930 Federal Census, Texas, Harris, ED 31, pg 16A.  first married at age 26.
    27. Texas County Marriage Index, 1837-1977 (FamilySearch.org), Sellars, J J.  to Nina
         Sterling, 17 Aug 1919, Harris County.
    28. Birth Certificate, Sterling, Foye #36114.  This an an ammendment to the original, filed
         on 21 May 1974, with an affidavit from Ira Goode King Jr, her cousin. The only change
         is to add her given name.
    29. Social Security Death Index (FamilySearch.org), Sellars, Foye Sterling.
    30. Birth Certificate, Sterling #36114.  27 Oct 1910, Teague, Freestone County, Texas.
         There is no given name for this female child on this certificate.
    31. Social Security Death Index (FamilySearch.org), Sellars, Foye Sterling.  27 Oct 1910.

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My Notes
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If there is no SOURCE, I have no PROOF! If the source is a person, the information is HEARSAY!