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Sam Bass
Birth: Jul. 21, 1851
Death: Jul. 21, 1878

Originally he was deputy sheriff of Denton County, Texas. With four friends, he robbed stagecoaches in South Dakota, the Union Pacific Railway in Nebraska, and banks in Texas. He was killed during an attempted bank robbery in Round Rock, TX. 

 
Cause of death: He was mortally wounded by a Texas Ranger named George Harrell on July 19, 1878, just moments after Bass and one of his gang, Seaborn Barnes, had shot and disabled Morris Moore, a one-time Texas Ranger
 
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Burial:
Round Rock Cemetery
Round Rock
Williamson County
Texas, USA
Plot: West Side, Near Fence
GPS (lat/lon): 30.5324993, -97.9233017
 
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
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