  john peters ringo (may 3, 1850 â july 13, 1882) â known as johnny ringo â was an outlaw member of the cowboys of cochise county, of the american old west, who was affiliated with ike clanton and frank stilwell in cochise county, arizona territory during 1881â1882. ==early life== ringo was born in greensfork, indiana, of distant dutch ancestry. his family moved to liberty, missouri in 1856. he was a contemporary of frank and jesse james, who lived nearby in kearney, missouri, and became a cousin of the younger brothers through marriage when his aunt, augusta peters inskip, married coleman p. younger, uncle of the outlaws. in 1858 the family moved to gallatin, missouri where they rented property from the father of john w. sheets (who became the first "official" victim of the james-younger gang when they robbed the daviess county savings & loan association in 1869). on july 30, 1864, while the ringo family was traveling through wyoming on their way to california, johnny's father martin ringo stepped out of his wagon holding a shotgun which accidentally discharged. the buckshot entered the right side of martin's face, exiting the top of his head. the 14-year-old johnny, and the rest of the family, buried martin on a hillside alongside the trail. ==mason county war==  by the mid-1870s, ringo had migrated from san jose, california to mason county, texas. 
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