I don't have them all. but will send you what I do and a link to the Shirley family site and the Pennington family site. Can you send me your address to send them direct? Dora March 2, 1889 Van Buren Press Crawford County, Arkansas BELLE STARR'S FUNERAL Times: A Fort Smithian who was in the neighborhood of Younger's Bend where Belle Starr was killed was led by curiosity to attend her funeral and of which he gives the following account: The remains lay in a neat casket which was born by pall-bearers to the grave, where the lid was removed and the murdered woman was seen dressed in a neat suit of black silk, one of her crossed hands grasped the ivory handle of her favorite revolver. There were no religious services, the grim visaged attendants were heavily armed, and went about their work quietly. Each of them in accordance with the Indian custom placed a small piece of corn meal bread in the coffin, and then the lid was released and lowered, and scarcely had the grave been filled when James July, the dead woman's husband, who is a Creek, and not a Cherokee, and prefers to be called Starr, turned and approaching Watson, who with his wife was present, covered him with a Winchester and ordered him to surrender. Many persons thought he was going to be killed. Watson and his wife were quiet and cool. Watson gave up and said if they killed him they would kill the wrong man. He asked some of the men present to stay with him, as he feared he would be killed if he was left with Starr, and they did so. Fran Alverson Warren -------------- Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas -Crawford County 1890 Van Buren Press February 1, 1890 Jim Starr, the notorious horse thief and desperado, who was shot nine miles from Ardmore, I. T., last Tuesday week by a posse of Deputy United States Marshal Heck Thomas, died in the United States jail at Fort Smith Monday night of his wounds. Jim sprang into prominence as a criminal and desperado about two years ago, when he became the third husband of the notorious Belle Starr, and has since made quite a record as a horse thief and all-around criminal. Fran Alverson Warren -------------