Susan McSween

Born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, from a German Baptist (Dunkard) background, she left home at an early age after her mother had died and her father remarried.

The two factions clashed over Tunstall's death, with numerous people being killed by both sides culminating in the Battle of Lincoln, in which Susan McSween was present.

[1] Susan struggled in the aftermath of the Lincoln County War to make ends meet in New Mexico Territory.

Susan took over 1,158 acres of land on the West side of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in the years after the Lincoln County War ended.

On April 21, 1892, the Old Abe Eagle of Lincoln reported that she had driven 700 to 800 cattle from her ranch to Engle, the most accessible railroad point, from which place they were shipped "in 38 foot New England Cars" to the Jones and Nolan feed lots in Grand Summit and Strong City, Kansas.

The house in which she lives ; a low, whitewashed adobe building, is covered with green vines and fitted out with rich carpets, artistic hangings, books and pictures, exquisite china and silver, and all the dainty belongings with which a refined woman wishes to surround herself.

[5] She died from pneumonia, an impoverished woman in White Oaks, on January 3, 1931, aged 85,[6] and is buried there in the Cedarvale Cemetery.