Garnett T. Shockey
Garnet P. Shockey, son of Franciscus Shockey and Virginia Newlon, born 4 Mar 1888. Married Madge Sharp, died 23 April 1976. After he married, he and his wife moved to Belle Fouch, South Dakota in about 1916. They had a daughter, Virginia Rose Shockey born there. Garnet became a Bronco Buster for the U.S. Army. He was so good at this that when there was a contest at Camp Crook to ride a horse named Tipperary, he entered the contest. Tipperary was born in 1905 to be a race horse; instead he became a famous bucking horse. It is stated that for 10 years he bucked off the very best riders. Nobody could ride him long enough to qualify as having rode him. On May 16, 1919, before a crowd of 200 or more people, Garnet rode Tipperary for a dozen jumps or more before being unseated. The prize for riding this horse was a beautiful horse-hair bridle made by the Indians. His daughter, Virginia Rose Shockey Seckman has this bridle. We have seen it and it is really something! -Ralph Shockey
