Bio & Incident Details
Age: 26
Tour: 7 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 8/16/1889
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Not available
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Private Schmid succumbed to gunshot wounds received four years earlier in Fort Bend County. He and several other rangers from Company D had been sent there to attempt to quell political unrest between two political parties that involved several assassinations and other violence. The sheriff of the county was the leader of one of the political parties and on August 16, 1889, he lead a group of men in a shootout with the other party.
Private Schmid and two other rangers attempted to intervene and got caught in the cross fire. Private Schmid was shot in the leg and was also struck in the abdomen, but the abdomen shot did not penetrate his skin. Fort Bend County Sheriff Tom Garvey, his uncle the former sheriff, a political rival, as well as an innocent bystander, were killed. Private Schmid was rescued from the scene and put under a doctor's care where he remained seriously ill. He recovered enough to return to a clerical position in 1892 but died the following year.
At the time Schmind was wounded he had only been with the agency for three years. He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, in St. Louis, MO.
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