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Belle Starr was born Myra Maybelle Shirley on her father's farm near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848.Most of her family members called her May. Her father, John Shirley, prospered raising wheat, corn, hogs and horses, though he was considered to be the "black sheep" of a well-to-do Virginia family which had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice. [2]
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Michigan. Alcona (Alcona County) [1] Amble (Montcalm County) Antrim City (Antrim County) Aral (Benzie County) [2 ...
Blue Duck and Belle Starr, May 24, 1886. Blue Duck, sometimes referred to as Bluford Duck (c. 1858–1895), was an outlaw of the American Old West, probably best known for a photograph taken of him in the mid-1880s, in which he posed with Belle Starr, a famous female outlaw.
Pearl Starr was born in Rich Hill, Missouri. [7] As a small child, she moved often before her outlaw father died in a gunfight when she was six. [2] Her mother then married a Cherokee named Sam Starr, and settled beside the Canadian River in the Indian Territory at a place called Younger's Bend. [2]
After a 1866 bank robbery in Missouri, some of the gang hid out on the Shirleys' Texas ranch and Starr and Reed became reacquainted. [3] Belle Shirley and Reed were married on November 1, 1866 in Collin County, Texas. [5] They had a child in 1868 they named Rosie Lee (known as Pearl Starr). [6]
Elijah E. Myers (1832–1909) – Architect of the Colorado, Michigan and Texas State Capitols; James K. Okubo (1920–1967) – World War II US Army recipient of the Medal of Honor; Hazen Pingree (1840–1901) – Detroit Mayor and Michigan Governor [17] Francis Petrus Paulus (1862-1933) — Artist, teacher, and trustee of the Detroit Museum ...
Mount Olivet Cemetery (usually abbreviated and stylized as Mt. Olivet Cemetery) is a cemetery at 17100 Van Dyke Avenue in the city of Detroit in Wayne County, Michigan.It is owned and operated by the Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, a not-for-profit Catholic organization that is otherwise administered independently from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit and any of the various Catholic ...
The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.