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Post by MissyS on Feb 11, 2024 17:32:07 GMT -5
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Post by MissyS on Feb 12, 2024 12:58:17 GMT -5
I forgot to add that the article is in The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.) Thursday, July 22, 1937 paper. I wonder who the four men with machine guns were? Maybe Pretty Boy Floyd? or Machine gun Kelly? Any ideas? Also the man Brushy was visiting with Tom Stanberry of Grand Saline how was he associated with Brushy?
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Post by noreaster on Feb 12, 2024 15:36:43 GMT -5
Hi Missy, Here is a Tom Stanberry from Grand Saline on Find a Grave . I am curious what stories may have been passed through the various families of the friends of Brushy... All the best D |
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Post by MissyS on Feb 12, 2024 21:39:17 GMT -5
Hi Missy, Here is a Tom Stanberry from Grand Saline on Find a Grave . I am curious what stories may have been passed through the various families of the friends of Brushy... All the best D Thanks noreaster. This article was before Brushy revealed he was Billy the Kid, so any friend and persons acquainted with him mentioned in these articles is interesting to me. I found an article mentioning bank employees identified Pretty Boy Floyd as the one that robbed a bank in Grapeland Texas on Jul. 11, 1932. Grapeland is about 95 miles from Gladewater. |
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Post by RonBk on Feb 13, 2024 2:27:30 GMT -5
Interestingly, Tom Stanberry was the nephew of Luticia Ballard of Missouri. Before she got married to Brushy Bill, Luticia was married to Abraham Isaac. Now, Abraham was born in 1862, so he was close to Brushy in age. So it seems when Luticia got married to Brushy, this would be the normal thing, she continued her habit to fall in love with men about 12-15 years older.
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Post by MissyS on Feb 13, 2024 12:44:44 GMT -5
Interestingly, Tom Stanberry was the nephew of Luticia Ballard of Missouri. Before she got married to Brushy Bill, Luticia was married to Abraham Isaac. Now, Abraham was born in 1862, so he was close to Brushy in age. So it seems when Luticia got married to Brushy, this would be the normal thing, she continued her habit to fall in love with men about 12-15 years older. That’s an interesting connection with Brushy visiting Luticia Ballard’s nephew in 1937.  The article mentions that many of the old timers of Grand Saline at that time knew Brushy, so maybe this wasn’t Brushy’s first visit to Grand Saline? It’s around 46 miles between Grand Saline and Gladewater. It could be that a lot of those old timers that knew Brushy moved to Grand Saline to work at Morton Salt? Since it was around the Great Depression and people migrated to where there was work available, however the editor seemed familiar with Brushy’s adventure stories and his attire, I wonder if he was an old acquaintance as well? |
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Post by MissyS on Feb 13, 2024 15:57:56 GMT -5
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Post by MissyS on Feb 13, 2024 16:10:06 GMT -5
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Post by noreaster on Feb 13, 2024 16:38:38 GMT -5
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Interesting this article mentions Brushy active in the rodeos.