1. Data in the 1880 and 1900 federal census suggest a Laura Bullion might have been born on a farm in the township of Palarm near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas, and might have grown up in Tom Green County, Texas.
22 Facts About Laura Bullion
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Laura Bullion was arrested in early November 1901 in St Louis, Missouri.
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Laura Bullion was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in prison for her role in the Great Northern train robbery.
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Laura Bullion was released from the Missouri State Penitentiary at Jefferson City, Missouri, on September 19,1905, after serving three years and 10 months of her punishment.
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Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1918, posing as a war widow and using assumed names.
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Laura Bullion's fortunes declined in the late 1940s, when she was without an occupation.
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Laura Bullion's final resting place is at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.
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Laura Bullion's father had been an outlaw and was acquainted with outlaws William "News" Carver and Ben Kilpatrick, both of whom Laura Bullion met when she was around 13 years of age.
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At age 15, Laura Bullion began a romance with Carver, who for a time after his wife's death had been involved with female outlaw Josie Bassett, sister to Cassidy's girlfriend Ann Bassett.
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Data found in the 1880 and 1900 census suggests Laura Bullion might have been born on a farm in the Palarm Township near Conway in Faulkner County, Arkansas.
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Tom Green County borders Irion County, Laura Bullion's assumed county of birth, in the north and east.
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When Laura Bullion first became involved with Carver, the latter was riding with the Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum gang, and Laura Bullion wanted to join him.
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Laura Bullion is cool, shows absolutely no fear, and in male attire would readily pass for a boy.
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Laura Bullion has a masculine face, and that would give her assurance in her disguise.
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Laura Bullion made herself 10 years younger, claiming to have been born in 1887.
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When Carver was killed by lawmen on April 1,1901, Laura Bullion became involved romantically with Kilpatrick again, and the two fled to Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Laura Bullion served three and a half years before being released in 1905.
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Laura Bullion's occupation was upgraded to "interior decorator" in 1940.
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Laura Bullion lived there until her death two years later.
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Laura Bullion was the last surviving member of the Wild Bunch gang.
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References to the Shelby County Register of Deeds reflect information from the death certificate of Freda Bullion Lincoln, the identity Laura Bullion assumed for 43 years, when she was living in Memphis.
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Laura Bullion registered under a false name, made herself 10 years younger, and claimed to be the widow of Maurice Lincoln.