Episode 23: Bonnie & Clyde, Part 2
Bonnie & Clyde, Part 2
Clyde Chestnut Barrow
Clyde grew up poor, the very definition of dirt poor. Perhaps that’s why he followed his older brothers into a life of crime. Then one day, he met and fell in love with Bonnie, right before being sent to prison. Prison would change him. When he got out, Bonnie and Clyde would hold the attention of the country.
Listen to this episode to learn more about Clyde and his family as well as where they came from and what happened to his relatives after his death.
A background on Clyde’s earliest crimes.
Source: Lubbock Morning Avalanche, 24 May 1934
Clyde’s record in the Texas prison system
Henry Methvin
Buck and Clyde
Source: The Daily Times, 2 Jul 1933
Registration for Clyde as a Texas prison inmate.
Marvin Ivan, “Buck” Barrow with 2nd wife Pearl and their baby daughter Dorothy, ca 1926
Older brother Buck and his wife Blanche, ca 1933
Blanche when she was captured in 1933
Source: FBI
Blanche Barrow served just under 6 years of her 10 year sentence at a Missouri State Prison.
Blanche with her husband, Eddie Frasure
Fort Worth Star Telegram, 27 Mar 1939
Even Blanche’s third marriage made the news.
Source: The News Leader, 18 Feb 1941
Leon “L.C.” Barrow (1913-1979) probably spent more time in prison than any of his siblings. He married at least 5 times. The first photo is with wife Audrey, ca 1933. The last photo is with his fifth wife, Leona Van Voast. They were married for 23 years, until L.C.’s death.
Source: Find a Grave
Audrey was L.C.’s first wife.
Source: Democrat and Chronicle, 27 Feb 1935
Source: The Atlanta Constitution, 6 Sep 1979
Clyde’s oldest sister, Artie Adelle Barrow Jones Winkler Keys
Nell and third (and final) husband Wyatt Francis
Lillian Marie, Clyde’s baby sister. Top right she’s pictured with first husband, Joe Francis, ca 1933.
The young Barrow family, ca 1898
Henry, son Elvin Wilson “Jack”, and Cumie
Younger Cumie with Jack, Artie, Nell, and baby Buck.
Cumie Talitha Walker Barrow, Clyde’s mother
Henry and Cumie, likely in the late 1930s.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Fugitives: The Story of Bonnie & Clyde Compiled by Jan I. Fortune, as told by Mrs. Emma Parker and Nell Barrow Cowan
SOURCES
D Magazine article, “The Ongoing Quest to Reunite Bonnie and Clyde”
Wikipedia
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