Comments on: Dalton Gang’s Raid on Coffeyville

By: Linnie

Linnie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:59:54 +0000

Carey Seaman (correctly spelled Cary Semans) was my gggreat grandfather. He was the town barber and had just came back into town from hunting. He was mostly the only one with his gun and ammo. He Unloaded both barrals into Emmett. When Emmett was released from Jail the Semans went into hiding unsure if Emmett would come after them.
I can’t wait to make a trip to Coffeyville, KS. I have a bank bag from one of the banks.
linniemaym2@yahoo.com

By: cindy needham holt

cindy needham holt — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:12:44 +0000

looking for infomation on my ggg grandmother liz hensley dalton lawrence . she lived possibly near graves co ky. her dalton sons were john jube and dan . i was once told by an elderly realitive that dan ’twere the only one what rode with frank and jessie. i nmy e mhave a love for all my family and would enjoy knowing more.my email is cindyneedham@gmail.com

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:15:23 +0000

I was born in Coffeyville Kansas in 1949 and grew up with Dalton Gang stories. I used to swim in Onion creek where the gang camped the night before the raid and grew up on 8th street which was the dusty road they slowly traversed to their deaths on that beautiful October 5, 1892. I used to ride my bicycle to town on that same route and park in death alley and stroll out of the alley to the Condon bank and look at the bullet holes in it’s walls. My grandfather James O. Calton Sr. was on the police force in Coffeyville beginning in the late 1920’s. He knew many of the key defenders in the raid. I do not believe there has been a greater loss of life in a bank robbery in the United States, 8 dead. I also don’t believe there has been a bank robbery in Coffeyville since. As you can tell I am proud to be from Coffeyville, Kansas.

By: Mitchell Lewis Dalton III

Mitchell Lewis Dalton III — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:05:17 +0000

I made a mistake by saying that Bob Dalton was the Deputy U.S. Marshall. it was Frank Dalton that was the lawman.I was typing to fast and submitted my comments before proof reading what i wrote.

By: Mitchell Lewis Dalton III

Mitchell Lewis Dalton III — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:37:44 +0000

These brother’s are my cousins a well. My granddad Mitchell Lewis Dalton Sr. was born in 1875. His middle name comes from their dad Lewis Dalton . I have all the family heir looms and pictures to prove this fact. I am proud to know that these brothers are my relatives. If you know the history of them Bob was a U.S.Marshall before the goverment turned them into outlaws, by taking away what they had worked for. So they decided to take back what the government took from them.I really am glad to know that my family is a big part of U.S. history.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:48:59 +0000

Well I haven’t been to this web page in a while but I live here in Fort Smith and love to read everything that I can about the Dalton’s. I have a wonderful email pen pal that live in the UK. She sends me some of the most wonderful documents ever on the Alila train robbery! Living here in Fort Smith and seeing that my father came from here in this area we did genology research and found out that my dad was related to the George Maledon the hangman down at the old court house and that Frank and Ben Dalton had taken a photo with hjm and Parker in the 1880’s some time. WOW! Started my renewal of the Dalton’s for sure. Really enjoy everything that I can get my hands on about them.

By: Maggie Zimmerman Fitzpatrick

Maggie Zimmerman Fitzpatrick — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:19:44 +0000

This past July, one of my cousins informed me that we are related to the Daltons…boy,does that explain a lot ! When I saw their pix
all laid out dead and smiling, it was if I were looking at the facial
structures of my family. Oddly enough I am proud and found out
that we have French blood too. Do you think I can get my boys out of jams by pleading some new genetic defense? Just kidding
not. If anyone is my kin, let’s have a get-together, I live in Florida.
Better yet let’s do a piece on the TV station I work with:
studiomaggie@hotmail.com

By: Terah

Terah — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:54:33 +0000

The Dalton Gang are my relatives. If I remember what my mother said, they are my First Cousins, 8 times removed. My grandmother (my father’s mother) was a Dalton by birth. We have evidence from genealogy records to prove this, too.

I also live in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It IS a small world, isn’t it?

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:26:58 +0000

This post is for Dennsis.

Hay! seen your message about your brother looking like Grat. I live here in Fort Smith, Arkasnsas and have been interested in the Dalton gang for years. Love to read everything that I can get my hands on about them. I have a wonderful DVD from the History Channel about the Daltons that I watch over and over again. I have even been down to the Fort Smith Muesum of History and got some of Grat’s documents on file there. One was a letter that he sent when he was in Indian Territory and was writing to John Carroll in Fort Smith about a man that had been assaulted with a knife. And the other documents was of Grat’s when he was arreested for larceny.

I have family heritage that goes back on my fathers side of the family to the hang man that was there in Fort Smith, George Maledon. Probably your great-great uncles worked, talked and knew some of my great-great relatives back in the day!

Grat and Bill Powers are my favorites! Would like to see your brother picture! That would be cool!

Small world!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:14:53 +0000

In a 1850 US CENSUS in Ohio, I have relatives, Jeremiah Beard, Timothy Beard, and William Beard listed under one household with two Daltons: Rebecca and Wallace.

I understand, of course, that not every Dalton is related to the Daltons of the Coffeyville Raid, but the interesting thing is that there is a Frank Beard who’d owned land next to Coffeyville.

Does anyone have any clues how to find any connections?

Thanks!
-Aaron Welch (aaronwelch@mac.com)