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Sowers gained notoriety on November 21, 1933, when renowned criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met family members at dusk near what is now Texas Highway 183 approximately one and a quarter miles northwest of the community, where Barrow had arranged a clandestine picnic to celebrate his mother's fifty-ninth birthday.
Clyde Chestnut Barrow [12] [13] was born in 1909 into a poor farming family in Ellis County, Texas, southeast of Dallas. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] He was the fifth of seven children of Henry Basil Barrow (1874–1957) and Cumie Talitha Walker (1874–1942).
Clyde Barrow. Died: 1934. Buried: Western Heights Cemetery. Dallas. Bonnie and Clyde were inseparable, especially after Bonnie smuggled a handgun to Clyde that helped him in a jailbreak.
The Hemicycle at Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Harris County. Congregation Beth Israel Cemetery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston; Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston; Glenwood Cemetery, Houston; Houston National Cemetery, Houston; NRHP-listed; Olivewood Cemetery, Houston
Linton Jay "Boots" Hinton (born January 1, 1934 in Dallas, TX; died December 5, 2016 in Arcadia, LA) Ted Cass Hinton (October 5, 1904 – October 27, 1977) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was a Dallas County, Texas , deputy sheriff , the youngest of the posse that ambushed and killed Bonnie and Clyde near Gibsland , Louisiana , on May 23, 1934.
On the night of November 22 the sheriff and his deputies Alcorn, Caster and Hinton bungled an ambush of Barrow and Parker in Sowers, Texas, on the outskirts of Dallas. [70] The Dallas press jeered loudly — even the newsboys hawked the story as "Sheriff escapes from Clyde Barrow!" [71] — until Schmid put W.D. Jones on display. Wide-eyed and ...
He helped smuggle hacksaw blades to bank robber Ray Hamilton to escape from jail in McKinney, Texas on January 27, 1932. Fults joined up with Hamilton on March 22 and, along with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, attempted to rob a hardware store in Mabank, Texas. After the night watchmen sounded the alarm, the four fled in a stolen car until ...
He was in prison when Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were ambushed and killed by Hamer's posse on May 23, 1934. [10] Hamilton escaped and went on a crime spree with another former Barrow gang member Ralph Fults. In February 1935, Fults and Hamilton burglarized a National Guard Armory in Beaumont, Texas, taking two Thompson submachine guns.