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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]
Statue of Belle Starr at Woolaroc. Woolaroc is open year-round from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST Wednesday through Sunday and is closed on Monday and Tuesday. During the summer (Memorial Day through Labor Day), it is also open on Tuesdays. Bicycles are prohibited from entering the preserve. [14]
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.
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Starr's parents were Mary Scott Starr and George Starr. Distantly related to Sam Starr, husband of Belle Starr, he was the last in a long line of Starr family criminals. During Starr's childhood in Indian Territory, he spent his time around gangs in their hideouts. In 1886, Starr's father passed away.
Belle Starr sent her daughter to relatives to have her baby. [9] [11] In 1888, Pearl Starr's brother Edwin was found in possession of stolen property and was shot by his accomplice. What became of Starr's daughter is unknown, but in the summer of 1888, Pearl Starr returned alone to her mother's house at Younger's Bend to care for her brother. [12]
Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. As Doolin and Dalton were accepted as leaders of the gang, it became known as the Doolin—Dalton Gang, and also as the Wild Bunch. They hid out in northeastern Payne County, and were obtaining ammunition and supplies at the little village of Ingalls.
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]