Hi, Bill, Why did a 12 -14 year old Clyde Barrow used to spend Summers in Hico and camp out with older brothers of kids I went to school with? I know several whowent fishing and overnight campouts with him. He , Bonnie, and Raymond Hamilton used to sleep in or near the Johnsville Church of Christ building. I walked to school with a cousin in 1934 as a visitor to get familiar with the school. We were warned if we saw a Model B Ford or an early 34 Ford with the Suicide Doors (opened to the front) at the church or cemetery to mind our own business and hurry home. I think we ran all the way. There was an article in the Dallas Paper about Clyde's sister in a better part of Dallas and her two sisters did not live in the Dallas area. I think you may know where they were living a few years ago. I know of a house on the Duffau Creek where Clyde & Bonnie hid while the man went to the door for Sheriff Gilbreath, Erath County. He stood and talked and left. Had he come into the house Bonnie would have killed all witnesses, but they were not afraid of Clyde. Oh, yes, Bonnie had a crooked knee and walked on one toe, knee slightly buckled. She ran with a halting limp, not at high speed like the Movie showed in a Kansas robery. One set of settlers of Hico- Duffau were German from Lake Hico- Hico Louisiana. and Arcadia, La. Must have lived in Hico, Ky, first, but they left cousins in Arcadia, La. near where Clyde was shot. I talked to one of them. I do not know if any Barrows were in that wagon train or not. I cannot remember the name the man there told me was his kin but at the time I knew the name from seeing it on a mailbox on the road from downtown Duffau to the Stephenville- Hico road. I got the impression the Germans and maybe a few French wanted to come to Central Texas to get away from the Mulato owned plantations- they definitely had a motivation to leave La. My family there included Roberts , Higdon, Higbee and others . One Higdon married Tom Arendell's son & one of dad's Great Moxley aunts married his brother. We were told at the Sevier Reunion and one Geneaology workshop that many in Texas, some very religious, had civil or misdemeanor charges filed against them in Tennessee and the Carolinas. The next day or so their records showed Charges dropped- G.T.T- Gone to Texas. I am glad to know that Clyde was not close kin to the Hico group- that is not the story I had always heard. If Poverty caused Clyde's life of crime, why weren't our entire first Grade at Johnsville criminals instead of land and buiness owners and teachers???We had our 60th anniversary at the Three Way gym and we were all there- Dr. Morris Johnson, a Cox grandson was there. He was a Tarleton teacher after Army officer retirement. Thanks and take care Charles Wyly