Mike Cox wrote a book in 2011 and it was called titled and it is titled West Texas Tales. It is a part of The American Chronicles. A division of the History Press. In it there is a chapter called H. AINTS. One of the stories he talks about is the ghost in Officers Quarters #7. I’m adding a link here to where you can purchase this book.
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark was abandoned in 1889. After that, many of its buildings were converted into civilian housing and the surrounding area was platted and called Fort Concho Edition. For Concho, today is a historic landmark and museum. However, Good Fellow Air Force base in San Angelo Military personnel from that Air Force Base. May live in the surrounding communities, which include Fort Concho addition.
I’m going to tell you the story in the book, but unless I read it in a newspaper, it’s just a story.
So maybe someday I will find the documentation of these murders. The haunting in building number seven, which is a limestone building built in 1877 as a double set of quarters for unmarried officers and was later rented out as a residence. It started to be an abandoned building after in 1895 or ninety six, a man was found murdered in the house. The man who was killed was a trapper and he was having disputes over trapping rights. It was rights and ownership of land that killed the man who killed the man who is the ghost in #7?
So the story goes. This man ran his sheep all over the country. There wasn’t much water at the time, so a landowner told him don’t drive your sheep in my pasture so they can get to the water. But the owner of the sheep pushed to stop across the man’s land to drink the water anyway. One day when they saw the sheep owner coming. The land owner was on a wagon and shot a bullet between the eyes of the sheepherder. And so the ghost. Of building #7 at Fort Concho continues to frighten children.
