Comments on: Belle Starr

By: Carly

Carly — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:50:26 +0000

Jim Reed was my Great Great Great Grandfather!

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:06:14 +0000

Thank you to everyone who has replied to me. Its so frustrating to get so far back and then hit a dead end. I have all these small maybe connections but I just cant seem to find that one strong and certain lead. I found my grandfather’s obit online and it says he was born in Spaulding Oklahoma in 1930 to Ethel and Grover Brown. If I remember correctly Grover Brown was her second husband as my Aunt Maxine and Aunt Cecil where only his half sisters. I believe their maiden name was Shirley.
There are all this lil whisps of stories I can remember like the Trosper connection and the claimed landrun land being sold to the FIrst National Bank downtown. It also seem to remember a story that someone had ran for governor and lost and it was supposley really embarrassing to the family at the time.
I want so badly to be able to document these things for my daughter so she can she how much she is a part of her state and the history and it just frustrates me to pieces!

By: Teresa Blaylock Owens

Teresa Blaylock Owens — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:39:12 +0000

Hello i’m Teresa….this is to Ann ….posted in July 2009….I believe you are on the right track with the Brown last name….from passed down info…my grandmother who died when she was 32 back in 1934 was maiden named Brown and was a cousin (first to my understanding) to Belle Starr (Shirley) and they would have been babies together…one of the mothers had to take the other in and were nursed together because of the lost of the other mother….I thought this might not be true because I could not find the connection with the Brown until I read your comment….my Aunt who is now deceased lived around Tishamingo, Ok by from the OK and AR area new more about her….I never wanted to say I was related just in case someone was wrong but I was told I was even tho it would be distant cousin ….

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:52:30 +0000

hello…im COURTNEY… i am doing a 4 page paper on belle starr and would love 2 have more info thats true ”Not tall tells”…in this project i allso have 2 dress just like her and come up with a back ground 2 fit the wild west so if anyone would PLS be so kind and HELP… i would be so happy =)
ohhh….i would allso like to no more on who her killer might be??
Thank you so much for your time..
EMIL: courtneyhightower11@yahoo.com
if you have any info in belle starr???

By: k. ledbetter

k. ledbetter — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:45:22 +0000

all you researchers combing through the starr side of your family did you ever come across a wenona starr born in 1846? this is where i got stuck. found a wenona starr that appears under sam starr in a cherokee registry and thats where it ends. was she a blood relation or by marriage? and who? im pretty curious i will not claim im a relative until i know for sure! any help or leads will be welcome. thanks

By: Bill L. Behrendt

Bill L. Behrendt — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:05:09 +0000

Well, like seemingly thousands of others, I was told by my Mom that I am related to Belle Starr. Sigh. Bit more complex than others, though, because my natural father (genetic father, birth father, whatever) is someone I’ve never met. Last name of Ferguson. Theoretically, then, I am related through this man of mystery: supposedly, his great grandmother was Belle. Or great aunt or something else maternal on the Ferguson side…

any info anyone wants to pass on is appreciated – bill at voiceovermusic dot com

Thanks!

By: brittney raymer

brittney raymer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:02:43 +0000

So I was talking to my dad about my family tree and belle starr or (belle shirley) is accually my like great great aunt my great grandma was a shirley. I thought this was interesting to learn about her n I’m glad I’m nothing like her haha.

By: Debra Fischer

Debra Fischer — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:04:37 +0000

I am trying to contact Ann who posted on July 20, 2009. My grandmother was Bernice Shirley, daughter of Earl Shirley and Lillie Hess. She married Fred Spearman, grandson of Ludora TROSPER and Frederick HOLMES. All were in Oklahoma.
Who was your TROSPER ancestor? You can contact me at txfischers@aol.com

Debra Spearman Fischer

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:38:47 +0000

Hi all searchers of Belle Starrs Family. we need to compile a list of relatives who say they are kin. Copy it for others, to find all connects of the family lines also seems in Missouri where the start of trouble happens, Belle and Jesse James seems to have the same cousins. In different sides of the family. My husband is kin to Jesse. Starrs, Smiths, Armstrongs, Best, and Starrs seems to be a small town group in those days who intermarried to each others cousins. Fought Yankees from their small town group.Most left because of war and trouble. Went to Muskogee, Ok. and Ft. Smith,Ar.and around St. Louis, Missouri. I’m trying to locate a book on Jessies family history by relative from Collinsville, Il. Will check back with you all later. Family tree seems everyone related to these onry people. Is history repeteing lately. SLRLArmstrong@centurytel.net

By: mrs. nelson

mrs. nelson — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:45:34 +0000

I have an old tintype of whom I believe to be “Belle Starr” and looking for a family to id the tintype for me – I purchased it many years ago out of an album from Texas – In that same album are other tintypes of a young boy and others – you can e-mail me at natchez7777@aol.com – thank you