Arrangements by Willis Funeral Home, LLC, Dalton, Georgia. In the spring of 1942, the brothers, under Tuvia's leadership, decided to gather 30 surviving family members and a few friends. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. Sterling, MontgomeryCO, KY Died: 16 Jul 1890 in Dearing, KS Father: Benjamin DALTON Mother: Nancy RABOURN Generations earlier, James Lewis Dalton's (D'Alton) forbears had left France for Ireland. Kay decided to place both men under arrest and took them to Visalia. By Stephanie Dalton March 03, 2008 at 03:10:47 Hello, I am trying to find a family tree for the Dalton family of which 2 members of the Dalton gang are from. Teresa was a member of the Full Gospel Outreach Church and . In 1840 there were 39 Dalton families living in Virginia. He decided to watch the outside of the place at night to see if he could catch in the act whoever was trying to open the grating. Standing with his back towards him was Bill Dalton, watching the horses and buggy Kay had just left, while nervously working the lever of his winchester. After pointing out the location of the camp, Middleton left in a hurry and the two posses spent the night on the living room floor of the nearby Elwood ranch. They had no children. Although the Daltons may have been inspired by their famous cousins' exploits, the Youngers were much older and were in prison at the time of the Dalton Gang's activities. Witty had gone to the livery stable in Modesto, at the time being jointly run by Chris Evans and John Sontag, and learned that Grat had sold the horse to Evans who in turn gave him the two dollar bills. However, four of the 15 children loom large in western outlaw folklore: Grat, Bob, Bill and Emmett Dalton. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. The Journal then went to state that, "The other dead body proved to be that of Tom Evans" and marked number six on their map of the shooting area as "Where Tom Evans fell" and in three other references to him The Journal called him Tom. Some time later, the three dissatisfied members also returned and new plans began to form. She then traveled to Visalia with her two daughters, as well as her sons Ben, Cole, Lit and Bill, for Grat's trial. Hello!". So you see there are direct relatives all over! Unless there was a high enough reward being offered, they would instead choose to focus their attention on petty criminals. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. What Bill didn't know is that Beckenridge was also a consulting attorney for the Southern Pacific railroad. They then robbed the next train a few minutes later, securing about $50,000. Montgomery was alleged to be posing as a deputy marshal. Bill, thrown off his guard, quickly turned around and mimicked the greeting, "Kay! In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. 4346 Bailey Ave, Amherst, NY 14226-2133 +1 716-838-2233 Website. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. Due to the sensationalism that surrounded the Dalton Gang's exploits, they were accused of robberies all over the country but operated chiefly in California, Kansas, Oklahoma Territory, and Indian Territory. Lewis Dalton was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Kansas, when he married Adeline Younger, the aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. Late in the afternoon, Kay and Witty were about four hundred yards from the station when they saw two men crouching as they crossed the road from the old stage barn to the station. Kay learned at the train depot that Bob and Emmett had bought tickets to Ogden and were carrying large telescope bags with them. Emmett was then hit in the back with a load of buckshot. The Dalton Chronicles consists of articles contributed by the late DGS Member Rodney Garth Dalton of Utah who passed away on August 28th, 2012. They did however find pieces of a file and a hack saw blade in the prisoner's toilet. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. Bob ordered him to drop the gun, and when he failed to answer, shot him with his Winchester, killing him. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. For the film based on them, see, Dalton gang following the 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas raid. Henry Coleman "cole" Dalton, Bea Elizabeth "lelia" Dalton, Franklin "frank" (U.s. Marshall) Dalton, Willia Dennis and Heather, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8861394, OkieSeeker, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25161106, Dennis Pleau, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86873301, Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States, Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1791-1963, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. They made the mistake of leaving the train dark, though, which made Bob suspicious, and the gang allowed the train to go by. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. Before the Coffeyville raid, Bill Dalton had returned to Oklahoma, later joining Bill Doolins gang and then forming his own gang. There was also little incentive among Deputy Marshals to search for potentially dangerous outlaws, their only pay being for fees and a set amount for each criminal they arrested. On June 8, 1894, while he was playing with his daughter on the front porch of his farm home in Ardmore, Okla., lawmen crept up on him from behind and shot him dead. The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers.Some were also involved in American politics. Kay did not think much of this until later, when Perry Byrd mentioned Chris breaking Grat out of jail. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. Smith instead went north and several weeks later was arrested by Kay. Save. Williams. When Emmett and Bob went out the back door of the First National Bank, they were met by Lucius Baldwin, who had been watching the door with his pistol. Son of James Lewis Dalton and Adeline Lee Dalton On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. Kay's buggy was directly facing the setting sun, so they could not tell who the men were. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. When told to open the safe, the manager lied, telling Grat it was a time lock and that it would not open for another 10 minutes. Angered by the charges against Grat and Bill which he knew to be false, Bob decided that the best way to help his brothers would be to acquire enough money to pay for their bail and defense. Middleton had been threatened by Dalton for not helping him escape the country fast enough and was afraid of him. The two left California in February 1892 and rode for a hundred and seven days before reaching Kingfisher. Short then went to the rear platform with his rifle. Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. He began walking behind his plow when he felt a rifle poke him in the ribs. When he returned the next day to watch the house, he discovered that Bob and Emmett had escaped. After Frank's death, Grat moved back from California and took over his brother's job as deputy marshal at Fort Smith. John Dalton, who was the brother of William Dalton the Elder, married Mary Newman Brockenbrough, the widow of William Brockenbrough on 6 May 1702. This is now known as Dalton Alley. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. The second train robbery by the Dalton Gang in Oklahoma was at a small station called Lelietta on September 15, 1891, about four miles north of Wagoner, Oklahoma. But that is not known. Grat ordered the employees to lay on the floor in the back office, and after receiving the signal from Bob, told Powers and Broadwell that it was time to leave. He was found 2 miles away, dead. The gang was also assisted by Bob's lover Eugenia Moore, known by her aliases "Tom King" and "Miss Mundays", who acted as their informant, but was also a notorious horse thief and outlaw. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. Send flowers to the service of Pastor Terence Hundrey Hambrick This family hails from Tennessee, but eventually ends up in Montana by 1883's end. Family Tree. The account given on October 7, 1892, by Coffeyville's The Journal is considered to be the most authentic on events the day of the robbery. Bill was finally able to get a loan on some horses from a local rancher, but they were still short one saddle and one of the horses was not fit for a hard ride. Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. He had gone to school at Robbins Corners near Coffeyville, and knew several hundred people in town. He was afraid some of his friends would be hurt, but Bob assured him there would not be any shooting, and that it would all be over before anyone knew what happened. Unclaimed. 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. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves. ", "Emmett Dalton Biography Oct. 5-10, 1892", "The Eagles on Desperado: "We were quite taken with the idea of being outlaws", "Emmett Dalton His Life After the Coffeyville Raid", "Heck Thomas Tough Law in Indian Territory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_Gang&oldid=1142764666, Articles needing additional references from December 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Charles Benjamin "Ben" Dalton (18521936). While Bill was playing his guitar, Wagy noticed that he was trying to cover up where the break had been made. The baggageman carelessly stuck the revolver into a pigeon-hole messagebox and went to work at the other end of the car. Frank is buried in Coffeyville, Kansas. The three went out the side door crouching and dashing across Walnut Street to the alley where they had hitched their horses. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. While the Indian Nations had their own tribal law enforcement, these agencies had no jurisdiction over non-Indians. Kay and his men made their way to a rock ledge that Middleton told them would bring them within a few feet above Dalton's camp. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. A posse assembled by U.S. Without making any noise, Bryant went to the messagebox and secured the revolver. Closed now : See all hours. The three rode so hard down the valley that Owen's horse soon gave out, so they roped and saddled one of Henry Miller's horses. [17] After the attempted robbery, Emmett was taken upstairs above the drug store to be treated by Dr. Wells. Kay tracked the Daltons to their mother's home, and kept watch of the house for a few days before being forced to return to Kingfisher because of bad weather. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." After serving 14 years in prison for the crime, Dalton capitalized on his notoriety to author books and become an actor in Hollywood. He was then taken back to Visalia to await his trial for the Alila robbery. After they realized they were no longer being pursued, Bob and Emmett began to form what would be known as the Dalton Gang. This is where. Here, they secured more than $19,000. Bob shot him in the head, killing him. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. Grat and Middleton told Smith they planned to hide out in the Coast Range and invited him to come with them. In it she implied that her father was the one who helped Grat Dalton escape from the Visalia Jail, lending credibility to an earlier claim made by Sheriff Gene Kay of this being true. Rumors had circulated for months that Bob had planned to come and liberate Grat, so two of sheriff Kay's deputies, Jim Wagy and Bob Hockett, had been hired by Wells Fargo to guard Grat's cell until he was sentenced and sent to San Quentin. I am trying to see if I am related, and if so, where. The man was Riley Dean and he did as he was told. He is the cowboy in charge of it all, and now current governor of Montana. Wagy said, "Here is your hole", and kicked the broom handle onto the floor. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. Kay and Ford checked all the stages and trains out of Ogden and telegraphed ahead of all others. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. After Bob and Grat were killed at Coffeyville, Bill Dalton formed another gang with Bill Doolin, known as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton-Doolin Gang. The deep canyons of the area, covered with dwarf cedar and blackjack oaks, made it an ideal hiding place. Grat could not see the yard Wagy had laid in from his cell and the deputy hadn't told anyone what he had done that night. This is why Grat was able to notice Deputy Wagy hiding in a yard across the street from the jail. Ford drew his revolver and ran into another store to the alley to cut them off, but soon lost them. He soon discovered a worn place in the carpet and found a trap door hidden underneath. By 1889, however, they had drifted into horse stealing, while still wearing badges, and a year later were discredited and forced out of policing altogether and took up horse thievery full-time, gathering together a gang. After spending a few weeks tracking and arresting Arvil Beck and W.B. Brothers Lit and Bill Dalton were also visiting their mother, and Doolin proposed that they join his group to avenge their brothers. Grat and McCardle fired at each other almost simultaneously. Grat and Riley then made their way out of camp with their rifles on their backs and Kay decided they would set up an ambush and wait for their return. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. They used the bar they had cut out to pry open the grating in the wood room window and, instead of risking going and putting it back, left the broom handle in its place. Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered. Coleman Dalton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Littleton Lee Lit Dalton, Franklin Frank Dalton, Gratton Grat Hanley Dalton, William Bill Mason Wil farmers of this country. Since Grat's location was in Fresno County, Kay telegraphed Sheriff Hensley in Fresno, and the two made plans to assemble a posse in Centerville. The tailor remembered the coat, but he couldn't remember who had bought it, only that some girl had picked it up once it was clean. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. This led to a heavy argument between Bob and Emmett and created bitterness between them on the way to the robbery. Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. Kay believed they did this to throw him off by going south instead of east. Emmett married Julia Johnson Lewis on September 1, 1908 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Grat then shot him in the head and killed him. As he lifted the rifle up, Bob shot and killed him. After the gang separated with their share of the loot, Bill hid out with his family in a cabin near Elk, Indian Territory. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. By that time, Bill had been moved downstairs into what was Grat's cell. Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton Tom Evans, on the other hand, was reported to be the fraternal twin of outlaw Chris Evans, who at the time of the Coffeyville raid was a fugitive hiding out in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Kay and Ford traveled the fifty miles to Guthrie, but soon came into problems when dealing with different tribal jurisdictions. None of the Dalton gang was hit. On September 21, Grat Dalton was brought into court to face sentencing, but this was instead postponed to October 6. Grat noticed him, but before he could aim, Kloehr shot him in the throat. Dont stop looking you will find out! In 1918, he portrayed himself in the movie version of his book Beyond the Law. Some years later, Lit Dalton asserted that Bob and Emmett had told him many times that they had robbed the train. They played poker all night in Traver and then traveled to Tulare to do the same. In order to persuade the townsfolk not to hang him, he agreed to tell them everything they wanted to know. Sometime before the Alila robbery, but after Grat, Bob and Emmett had all arrived at Bill's ranch in 1890, Grat had been rumored to have been in possession of rare two dollar bills. One night, Jim Wagy heard a noise in the basement and upon investigation discovered that someone had tried to break the lock to the grated window. He claimed that Bob, Grat, and Emmett had all made at least two trips to Bill's ranch in California during that time and that at least one of them would show up to his saloon to get a gallon demijohn full of whiskey to bring back to the rest. Elizabeth was born on January 13 1715, in Baltimore, Prince George's, Maryland, USA,. They hoped that a big haul from the banks would allow them to leave the territory and escape Thomas' heat.
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