Barbette (Broadway) (Vander Clyde) b. December 19, 1899 d. August 5, 1973 Actor, Trapeze Artist. At a young age he left home to become an acrobat. Later he formed a partnership with a woman trapeze artist assuming the role of her twin sister, who had died. As a solo-trapeze and wire-walker artist, he continued to dress as a woman, and in the mid-1920s he went to perform in Europe. He achieved great success in Paris, France, and was a friend of Jean Cocteau. In the early 1930s he posed for a series of photographs by artist Man Ray, who put into a book called, "Le Sang...[Read More] (Bio by: K) Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas, USA Plot: Section C, Row 2, Stone, 3
Barnes, Seaborn b. 1849 d. July 19, 1878 Train and Bank Robber. The "Lieutenant" of the Sam Bass Gang. Called "Seab" or "Nubbin's Colt", he was born in Cass County, Texas. His father died when Seaborn was an infant and his widowed mother took her 5 children to Handley, near Fort Worth, to raise them near her relatives. He worked as a cowboy in his early teens. He was considered illiterate as he never went to school and could not hold his liquor, becoming involved in many barroom fights. He served a year in jail when he was 17 over a...[Read More] (Bio by: Hallie Garrison) Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas, USA
Bass, Sam b. July 21, 1851 d. July 21, 1878 Western Outlaw. Born on a farm near Mitchell, Indiana, he was orphaned before he was thirteen and spent five years at the home of an uncle. In 1870, he arrived in Denton, Texas, handled horses in the stables and became interested in horse racing. Acquiring a fleet mount, he won most of his races when he with Joel Collins gathered a small herd of longhorn cattle, drove them north and sold them in Deadwood, South Dakota. There Bass and Collins tried working in freighting and without success, then...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) 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 Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas, USA Plot: West Side, Near Fence GPS coordinates: 30.6211338, -97.6977463 (hddd.dddd)
Grimes, A. W. b. July 5, 1850 d. July 19, 1878 Deputy Sheriff and former Texas Ranger. He was killed in a gunfight with the Sam Bass gang, 19 July 1878. It is difficult to fathom why on that Friday afternoon Ahijah A. Grimes challenged the three strangers who were approaching the general store. Ostensibly, it was due to the deputy sheriff he was with having told him he thought he had seen a pistol on one of the three, and since carrying such a weapon was illegal in Round Rock, Grimes was going to question them. Yet, not too many hours...[Read More] (Bio by: Lone Star Time Traveler) Cause of death: Shot down in the line of duty by the Sam Bass Gang Round Rock Cemetery, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas, USA Plot: Northeast Corner
b. December 19, 1899 d. August 5, 1973