This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ware, Bass Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5763 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 3 July 1902 Death - Richard Ware, age about 50, died last Thursday in a hospital in Fort Worth as the result of heart failure. In 1878, he was a mere boy, yet he was a Captain in the Ranger Service. When out scouting he met Sam Bass and two of his comrades in Round Rock and a battle ensued. After the firing ceased, Bass and Barnes were dead and Jackson wounded. Ware did the shooting. Afterwards he was sheriff of Mitchell county for 5-years. President Cleveland appointed him a U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas and served until the outgoing of the democratic administration. He then went into the cattle business