William Antrim, late in life
William Henry Harrison Antrim was born to Levi and Ida Antrim on December 1, 1842 at Hunstsville, Indiana. He became a miner in Indiana and by the age of twenty-one, he was a teamster in Philadelphia. He filed a suit against the government for wrongful drafting. Antrim was in Indianoplolis by the time the verdict was reached. In June 1863, Antrim enlisted in the U.S. Army, but was discharged in September of the same year. He stayed in Indianapolis until 1869, and met Catherine McCarty there. He moved with the McCarty family to Wichita, Kansas and then to New Mexico. He married the tubercular Catherine in Santa Fe on March 1, 1873. Antrim became known as Uncle Billy to Henry and Joseph McCarty. The family moved to Silver City, where Catherine died. Antrim continued to work as a miner and was planning to visit Henry (now Billy the Kid) at the jail in Lincoln before Billy escaped, but for some reason, Antrim never made it there. Antrim continued to work as a minor for nearly the rest of his life. He preferred never to talk about Catherine for the rest of his life. Antrim died at Adelaida, California on December 10, 1922.
