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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]
Apr 2, 2014 · Belle Starr was known as an infamous outlaw in the Wild West — the western edge of the expanding United States in the second half of the 1800s. She associated with famous outlaws, like Frank and ...
Nov 16, 2009 · In 1886, Belle again lost a husband to violent death when Sam Starr was killed in a gunfight with an old enemy. Belle wasted no time in finding a third companion, a Creek Indian named Jim July, an ...
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Belle Starr (born Feb. 5, 1848, Washington County, Mo., U.S.—died Feb. 3, 1889, near Briartown, Okla.) was an American outlaw of Texas and the Oklahoma Indian Territory. Myra Belle Shirley grew up in Carthage, Missouri, from the age of two. After the death of an elder brother, who early in the Civil War had become a bushwhacker and had ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Belle Starr was born Myra Belle Shirley in a log cabin near Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848, to “Judge” John Shirley and his third wife, Elizabeth Pennington. Her father was the black sheep of a well-to-do Virginia family who had moved west to Indiana, where he married and divorced twice.
Oct 27, 2021 · The Untold Truth Of Outlaw Belle Starr. Myra Maybelle "Belle" Shirley, who would later become known as the outlaw Belle Starr, was born in Carthage, Missouri, on February 5, 1848. The Shirleys were a successful and wealthy family who owned a blacksmith shop, an inn, a livery stable, and a tavern. As reported by Legends of America, the ...
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Apr 3, 2013 · Now a wanted man, he collected Belle and Pearl from Missouri and the family sheltered with Tom Starr before moving all the way to Los Angeles in 1869, where Belle had a son called James Edwin in 1871.
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