For 140 years, Thomas P. Moad has been little more than a name on a plaque.
The first El Paso police officer ever killed in the line of duty, Moad was a former Texas Ranger who died in a gunfight on July 11, 1883. His killer fled to Mexico. His story faded into the archives. And for generations, the only people who remembered him were the ones who happened to glance at a list of the fallen on a police station wall.
That’s about to change. This Saturday, May 16, the Concordia Heritage Association is unveiling a dedicated stone monument for Thomas P. Moad at Concordia Cemetery, finally giving El Paso’s first fallen officer the marker he never had. The ceremony begins at 9 a.m.
A Young Deputy, A Small Plaque, and a Question That Took Decades to Answer
The man who dug Moad’s story out of the archives is retired police officer, writer, and historian Harry Kirk.
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