The Dalton Gang rode into Coffeyville, Kansas on October 5, 1892 and planning to rob the Condon Bank and the First National Bank. They managed to steal $25,000 in 12 minutes. Following the robberies a shootout followed occurred claiming the lives of eight men. Four members of the Dalton Gang: Grat and Bob Dalton, Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers; and four Coffeyville residents, Charles T. Connelly, Coffeyville city marshal (killed by Grat Dalton in "Death Alley"), Lucius M. Baldwin, George B. Cubine and Charles Brown. Three other townsmen were wounded during the gunfight. The four dead members of the Dalton gang were held in the Coffeyville city jail until the next afternoon when the outlaws were buried. Placed in black-varnished coffins made of wood Grat and Bob Dalton and Bill Powers were buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Coffeyville, Kansas. Dick Broadwell finally resting place is said to be in Hutchenson, KS in an unmarked grave but there are no records as to where he is actually buried.
The following are Post Mortem Photos of the four Dalton gang members that were killed.
George. B. Cubine was born on Walker’s Creek near Mechanicsburg, Virginia, August 25, 1856. His father died in 1862 leaving his widow and four small children. At the age of 19 George came to Kansas to live with his uncle, J.W. Cubine, of this city.
He was married December 29, 1881, to Alice A. Keyton, daughter of Thomas and Mary A. Keyton. Three children have been born to them. Jennie, born October 26, 1882, died December 31 the same year; Charlie, born January 9, 1885, survives; Ethel, born September 1, 1890, died August 27, 1891.
At the age of 16, he was converted and became a member of the M.E. church, South. After he left Virginia he never had the opportunity of uniting with that denomination and was not a member of any church at the time of his death.
He had a strong faith in God, and a veneration of all things good. His best qualities were best known to his immediate friends and relatives. Warm hearted and generous, a loving husband and father, a true friend and always quick to aid. We know how impulsively he left his work, snatched a Winchester from its place and rushed to help his townsmen protect their property.
As a mechanic, his loss is irreplaceable. He was unsurpassed for swiftness at his work, honest and faithful to the interest of others. The blow falls with crushing force on an aged mother, a helpless invalid brother, a married sister and brother. In the family of his uncle, where he made his home for many years, there is a bitter mourning as over a dear son and brother. His wife and uncle were both away from home at the time of his death. And this adds greatly to their sorrow, at the loss of one whose memory will ever be gratefully and affectionately remembered.
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Charles Brown
Born
Dec 8, 1832
Died
Oct 5, 1892
Coffeyville Journal of October 7, 1892
Charles Brown was born in Schenectady, NY, December 26, 1832. When he was but 8 years of age, he went to Rochester, NY where he remained for seven years, during which time he completed his apprenticeship as a shoemaker. In 1847, when only 15 years of age, he went to California and engaged in gold mining for about 13 years. In 1861, he returned to his native state where he remained a short time. His next move was to Wayland, MI, where he married Miss Emily L. Morley in the year of 1868. Two years afterwards, he moved to Grand Rapids where he worked at his trade until the fall of 1883, when he moved on a farm three miles east of Coffeyville.
He moved to this city in 1888 and opened a shoe shop, where he remained working at his trade up to the time of his sad and tragic death at the hands of the Daltons on the 5th of October, 1892.
He leaves an aged widow in dependent circumstances, who has the heartfelt sympathy of all in her great sorrow.
The funeral services were held on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 at the M.E. church and were conducted by Rev. McDole, who delivered a very touching and appropriate discourse. The deceased was a member of the Methodist Church, an honorable, upright, industrious citizen, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow men.
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There is a ton of wonderful information online about the Dalton Gang just Google it and you will find out all you want to know.
George A. Tann is mentioned in Laura Ingalls Wilder's story Little House on the Prairie. He was a black doctor who saved the lives of the Ingalls family when they all came down with fever 'n' ague (malaria) on the prairie.
Bennet and Mary Tann were neighbors of the Ingalls family in Kansas, and George lived with them during the fever 'n' ague epidemic. George Tann was fetched by the Ingalls' bulldog, Jack, when they came down with the fever. After caring for their immediate needs he turned their care over to another neighbor, Mrs. Scott, who nursed the family back to health.
The following is from Laura: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder By Donald Zochert.
There was also a book written about him titled Doctor Fetched by the Family Dog: The Story of Dr. George A. Tann, Pioneer Black Physician by Eileen Miles Charbo. Sadly this book is out of print now.
Rockabilly singer Dale Hawkins, 'Susie Q' writer, dies at 73
By Terence McArdle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Dale Hawkins, 73, a Louisiana rockabilly singer and record producer whose 1957 hit "Susie Q" became a rock-and-roll standard and was a hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late 1960s, died of colon cancer Feb. 13 at a hospital near his home in Little Rock.
During his brief time in the limelight, Mr. Hawkins employed influential guitarists James Burton and Roy Buchanan. Mr. Hawkins's version of "Susie Q" was more raw, Southern blues than pop. He sang loudly and lustfully over Burton's distorted blues riff and an insistent cowbell.
Rolling Stone called "Susie Q" "the first rock 'n' roll record where the guitar counts for more than the song itself. Burton's lurching, fingerpicked gutbucket blues riff gives way to dirty-toned, scorched-earth solos after every verse."
Delmar Hawkins Jr. was born Aug. 22, 1936, on a plantation in Goldmine, La. After his parents separated, he and his siblings were raised by his grandparents.
Mr. Hawkins picked cotton and worked a paper route, then lied about his age to join the Navy at 16. In 1956, when his hitch was up, he started a band in Bossier City, La., with Burton. Stan Lewis, who owned a record shop in Shreveport, brought the band to the attention of Chess Records, a rhythm-and-blues label in Chicago. For Chess, Mr. Hawkins recorded the song "See You Soon, Baboon," modeled on the Bobby Charles hit "See Ya Later, Alligator."
The record failed to sell, and label owner Leonard Chess had reservations about releasing Mr. Hawkins's second record, "Susie Q." But a local disc jockey took a demo of the song to Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler. Wexler expressed interest in it, forcing Chess's hand.
Mr. Hawkins had to assign part of the song's writing credits to Lewis and E. Broadwater, a pseudonym for Nashville DJ Gene Nobles. The move ensured airplay but caused him to miss out on royalty payments.
Chess promoted the record slowly, one region at a time. The band took to the road, sometimes driving 800 miles between shows, with hasty recording sessions along the way. Mr. Hawkins often played in black theaters where he was the only white artist on the bill.
His other hits for Chess included "La-Do-Dada" (1958) and two other teen-oriented songs, "A House, a Car and a Wedding Ring" (1958) and "Class Cutter (Yeah, Yeah)" (1959). Later records for Chess and other labels were less successful.
Returning to Shreveport in the late 1960s, Mr. Hawkins turned to producing, crafting hits for Joe Stampley and the Uniques in addition to the Five Americans, along with the novelty song "Judy in Disguise" (1968) for John Fred. In the 1970s, Mr. Hawkins joined RCA Records in Los Angeles, working with singer-songwriters Michael Nesmith and Harry Nilsson.
After completing a drug rehabilitation program in the 1980s, Mr. Hawkins opened a crisis intervention program in Louisiana.
With belated royalty payments from CD reissues, he opened a recording studio in 1995 and reemerged with a series of self-produced albums, performing at rockabilly festivals in the United States and Europe.
Mr. Hawkins was a first cousin of Ronnie Hawkins, a rock-and-roll performer whose band included future members of The Band.
Dale Hawkins Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ‘Susie Q’
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: February 18, 2010
Dale Hawkins, a songwriter and singer whose rockabilly repertory included the 1957 hit “Susie Q,“ a bandstand classic for generations of rockers, died on Saturday in Little Rock, Ark. He was 73.
The cause was colon cancer, his Web site said.
Mr. Hawkins drew deeply from the heavy blues sounds of South Louisiana to create a classic of what is sometimes called swamp rock. Just as important were the explosive riff supplied by James Burton, one of rock’s first superstar guitarists, and the gong of a cowbell at the song’s beginning. “Susie Q” (the title was also sometimes rendered as “Susie-Q,” “Suzy-Q” and other variations; neither Mr. Hawkins nor his record company was consistent) reached No. 27 on the Billboard chart.
But the song’s influence can be measured in the many bands that have made it a rock anthem, as well as the many that have recorded it, including the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose 1968 version reached the Top 20.The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame chose it as one of the 500 songs that “shaped rock and roll.”
Mr. Hawkins has said that he and Mr. Burton came up with “Susie Q” as they improvised around Mr. Burton’s guitar flourish. “I wrote it, but never actually wrote it — it just kind of worked itself out,” he said in an interview with the music magazine Kicks.
When the song was first published, according to Colin Escott’s book “Tattooed on Their Tongues: A Journey Through the Backrooms of American Music” (Schirmer, 1996), it was credited to Mr. Hawkins; Eleanor Broadwater, the wife of a disc jockey; and Stanley J. Lewis, the owner of a local record shop and later a record producer and distributor.
In a 2000 interview with the weekly newspaper Denver Westword, Mr. Hawkins said the names of Ms. Broadwater and Mr. Lewis had been added unknown to him and for reasons he never understood. But that addition, he said, meant that he got only a third of the songwriting royalties. Indeed, he claimed that until MCA bought the Chess Records catalog in 1985, he received nothing for “Susie Q.”
The song’s title seems to have come from a dance craze of the mid-1930s. A song called “Doin’ the Susi-Q” was included in the Cotton Club Revue of 1936. According to Mr. Escott, some sources say that Mr. Hawkins claimed to have seen Howlin’ Wolf, the blues singer, down on his knees screaming “Suzie something or other.”
Delmar Allen Hawkins was born on Aug. 22, 1936, on his grandfather’s cotton farm in Gold Mine, La., where he grew up. His father and other family members were musicians who toured Arkansas and Oklahoma in the 1930s and ’40s. His cousin Ronnie Hawkins was also a rockabilly recording artist.
At 16, Dale lied about his age to join the Navy and served in the Korean War. He formed a band shortly after that.
Mr. Hawkins recorded “Susie Q” for Checker, a subsidiary of the celebrated Chicago blues and R&B label Chess Records. He was one of the first white artists the company signed. He was also one of the first white artists to appear at the Apollo in New York and the Regal in Chicago.
In the mid-1960s Mr. Hawkins became a record producer, working with the Uniques, Bruce Channel and the Five Americans, whose “Western Union” made the Top 10 in 1967. In 1969 he returned to singing with the album “L.A., Memphis & Tyler, Texas.”
In the 1980s, after recovering from an addiction to prescription drugs, he opened a crisis center for teenagers in Little Rock.
Mr. Hawkins is survived by his companion, Flo Murdock; his sons, Jeffrey and Jay Paul; his brother, Jerry; his sister, Linda Snider; and three grandchildren.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 26, 2010
An obituary on Feb. 18 about the singer and songwriter Dale Hawkins referred incorrectly to Kicks, the publication for which he discussed the creation of his song “Susie Q.” It was a magazine, not a newsletter.
Samuel West Peel’s diversified career in Arkansas included roles as a businessman, politician, county clerk, Confederate soldier, lawyer, prosecuting attorney, congressman, Indian agent, and banker. In Benton County and Arkansas, he is best remembered as the first native-born Arkansan to be elected to the United States Congress.
Sam Peel was born in Independence County on September 13, 1831, to John Wilson Peel, a farmer and merchant, and Elizabeth West Peel. He had two sisters. Peel was four years old when his mother died. His father left him with his grandparents and moved to Carrollton (Carroll County), making a home on Crooked Creek and remarrying. John Peel and his second wife, Malinda Wilson, had eleven children.
As a youth, Peel worked as a clerk in his father’s store, as well as serving as deputy court clerk to his father. On January 30, 1853, he married Mary Emaline Berry. They had nine children, of whom eight survived childhood.
In 1858, and again in 1860 and 1862, Peel was elected Carroll County clerk. When the Civil War erupted, Peel hid the county records in a burial vault in the cemetery to protect them from Union soldiers. After Arkansas seceded, Peel enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in Captain James M. Pittman’s company. Fellow soldiers elected him major in the Third Regiment, Arkansas Infantry (State Troops). Peel was in combat in the Battle of Wilson’s Creek and the Battle of Prairie Grove. He then joined the Fourth Arkansas Infantry, Adams Regiment. One historical entry records Peel as being in the Fourth Arkansas Cavalry; National Archives records show that Peel mustered out at the end of the war as a lieutenant colonel in Little Rock (Pulaski County).
At war’s end, Peel returned home to Carrollton, finding his home burned down. Peel retrieved the saved county records, but in 1866, when fire broke out in the new log, courthouse, the records were destroyed.
Studying law under his brother-in-law, Judge James Middleton Pittman, Peel was admitted to the bar in 1865 and moved his family to Hindsville (Madison County), where he opened his law practice. By the spring of 1867, Peel moved his law office to Bentonville (Benton County), and two years later, Peel’s brother-in-law, future governor James Henderson Berry, carried his practice to Bentonville and formed a partnership with Peel that lasted five years.
In 1873, Governor Elisha Baxter appointed Peel as prosecuting attorney for the vacant position in the Fourth Circuit. Peel performed well in the position and was rewarded for this diligence by being elected on April 26, 1873, by popular vote. He continued holding this office until 1876.
In 1875, Peel commissioned the building of his new fourteen-room family home. “The Oaks,” so named for the many surrounding oak trees, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Peels left The Oaks in 1904, moving to 201 West Central Street.
In 1880, Peel was defeated in his first bid for Congress, but two years later, he became the first native-born Arkansan to be elected to the U.S. Congress, serving as a Fourth District representative his first term (1883–1885) and representing the Fifth District for his four succeeding terms (1885–1893). Peel dealt with wide-ranging issues: patronage and spoils of elected officials, railroads and interstate commerce, agricultural experimental stations, and the survey of Indian lands and tribes. His interest in Indian affairs led him to the House Chairmanship of the Committee on Indian Affairs, overseeing the care, education, and management of Indians and their lands as well as dealing with land right-of-way issues and payment of depredation claims. Historians record that tribal councils were often held on the front lawn of the Peel mansion, with tribal leaders camping on the grounds. It was at one such meeting that a treaty was signed with the five civilized tribes (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole). The final payment to the Delaware Indians was made by Peel and dubbed the “Peel payment.”
In 1892, Peel was defeated for reelection by Hugh Anderson Dinsmore of Fayetteville (Washington County). Leaving Congress, Peel returned to Arkansas and the practice of law while forming a law partnership in Washington DC specializing in Indian cases, having been appointed attorney for all the civilized tribes. By 1890, he retired from law practice and organized the first bank in Bentonville, First State Bank of Arkansas.
On December 18, 1924, Peel died at the age of ninety-three. He is interred in Bentonville Cemetery.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 about Samuel West Peel
Name: Samuel West Peel
Date of Birth: 13 Sep 1831
Date of Death: 18 Dec 1924
Elected Office(s): Representative
Elected Date(s): 4 Mar 1883
State: Arkansas, Washington
Country: USA
Biography: a Representative from Arkansas; born near Batesville, Independence County, Ark., September 13, 1831; attended the common schools; clerk of the circuit court of Carroll County, Ark., 1858-1860; entered the Confederate service in 1861 as a private; elected major of the Third Regiment, Arkansas Infantry, and later colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Arkansas Infantry; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in Carrollton, Ark., in 1865; moved to Bentonville, Benton County, in 1867 and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of the fourth judicial circuit of Arkansas 1873-1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Fiftieth and Fifty-second Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the practice of law in Bentonville, Ark., and before the Court of Claims at Washington, D.C., until 1915; died in Bentonville, Ark., December 18, 1924; interment in Bentonville Cemetery.
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 about Samuel W. Peel
Name: Samuel W. Peel
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Arkansas
Regiment Name: Adam's Reg't., Arkansas Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: Adams' Regiment, Arkansas Infantry
Rank In: Colonel
Rank In Expanded: Colonel
Rank Out: Lieutenant Colonel
Rank Out Expanded: Lieutenant Colonel
Film Number: M376 roll 18
Obituary for Mary E. Peel
The Springdale News - Springdale, Arkansas - January 2, 1903
Mrs. S. W. Peel died at her home in Bentonville, Arkansas after a long illness Tuesday afternoon at 2:55 o'clock, Mrs. Peel, aged 67 years, 10 months and nine days. Mrs. peel has scores of friends who will mourn her death. She was the wife of ex-Congressman Peel and sister of U. S. Senator Jas. H. Berry. The deceased has scores of friends who will sympathize with Col. Peel and Family in their bereavement. All of her children were with her at the time of her death with the exception of her daughter, Mrs. P. S. Davis, who was unable to get here. Funeral services will be held at the family residence Thursday, December 25, 1902 at 10 o'clock. Burial at Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Note: Odd Fellows Cemetery was Incorporated into what is now the Bentonville Cemetery.
Obit from The University of Chicago Magazine December 1995
Max W. Schmidt-Bishop, PhB'32, a former ambassador to Thailand, died November 17, 1994, in Ailey, GA. He was 86. He spent his career with the Department of State, holding diplomatic and military posts throughout Asia. He retired in 1961, having received the Medal of Freedom and a presidential certificate of merit. He is survived by his wife, Jessie; a son; three daughters; and a brother.
You can read more about him at the following link.
Note: First he was buried near the battlefield at Saltillo in a tin coffin encasing the wood, remained there only five months then he was disinterred and brought back to Arkansas where he was buried in the family cemetery at Waxhaws. but that was not his final resting place. The Masonic Lodge disinterred all the bodies from this cemetery and reentered in the Evergreen Cemetery in Fayetteville in 1881.
Note: Ann Jordan Moore was Archibald's second wife. They had three daughters—Artemesia, Jane, and Elizabeth—and a son, DeWitt Clinton.
D.W.C. Yell
Born Oct 15, 1831
Died May 15, 1861
Mary C. Daughter of
D.W.C. & C.M. Yell
Born Jan 1, 1859
Died Aug 1, 1864
Note: DeWitt Clinton Yell, son of Archibald, became a Fayetteville lawyer but died just before the Civil War.
Dedicated
to the memory of
Maria Yell
who departed this life
Oct 14th 1838
aged 33 years
Note: Archibald's third wife, Maria (McIlvaine) Ficklin, but they had no children. Mary Ficklin was the widow of Judge Thomas Ficklin who had been an early political leader from Lawrence County.
