Elizabeth "Liza" Hatfield [F680]
b.1815 ca - VA
d. -
----- Marriages -----
m01. - + John Shirley (5 Children)
----- Children -----
Allison Shirley [F682]
Myra Maybelle Shirley [F683]
Edwin Shirley [F684]
Mansfield Shirley [F685]
Cravens Shirley [F686]
Name: Myra Shirley
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: Jasper county, part of, Jasper, Missouri, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 2
Race: White
Race (Original):
Birth Year (Estimated): 1848
Birthplace: Missouri
Household ID:
House Number: 518
Line Number: 16
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M432
Affiliate Film Number: 402
GS Film Number: 443610
Digital Folder Number: 004200562
Image Number: 00345
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11393-103531-22?cc=1401638
"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDZZ-J99 : accessed 25 Mar 2014),
Myra Shirley, Jasper county, part of, Jasper, Missouri, United States;
citing family , NARA microfilm publication M432
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Name: Myra Shirley
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1860
Event Place: Town Carthage Marion Township, Jasper, Missouri, United
States
Gender: Female
Age: 12
Race: White
Race (Original):
Birth Year (Estimated): 1848
Birthplace: Missouri
Page: 65
Household ID: 426
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: M653
GS Film Number: 803624
Digital Folder Number: 004233973
Image Number: 00291
Household Gender Age Birthplace
John Shirley M 66 Virginia
Eliza Shirley F 45 Virginia
Allison Shirley M 18 Missouri
Myra Shirley F 12 Missouri
Edwin Shirley M 11 Missouri
Mansfield Shirley M 8 Missouri
Cravens Shirley M 2 Missouri
"United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHZQ-LFC : accessed 25 Mar 2014),
Myra Shirley in household of John Shirley, Town Carthage Marion Township,
Jasper, Missouri, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census -
Population," Fold3.com; p. 65, household ID 426, NARA microfilm
publication M653; FHL microfilm 803624
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STARR, MYRA MAYBELLE SHIRLEY "BELLE"(1848-89)
Belle Star and Blue Duck
Belle Starr, "the Bandit Queen," was born Myra Maybelle Shirley, in
Jasper County, Missouri, on February 5, 1848. Her parents were "Judge"
John and Elizabeth Hatfield Shirley, her mother being related to the
Hatfields of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys. Of five siblings, John A.
M. "Bud" and Edwin were outlaws killed by lawmen. Belle continually
associated with notorious outlaws and gang members, even while attending
the Carthage Female Academy, Carthage, Missouri. On November 1, 1866, she
married James C. Reed, a former member of Quantrill's Raiders. From this
union two children were born: Rosie Lee "Pearl" (who was known as Pearl
Younger) in 1868 and James Edwin in 1871. Belle soon left Reed, because
she disapproved of his involvement in several robberies. In 1874 he was
killed while resisting arrest.
After a brief relationship with Bruce Younger, Belle married Sam Starr on
June 5, 1880. The Starrs settled on communal tribal land in the Cherokee
Nation, at a place called Youngers' Bend, near present Eufaula, Oklahoma.
During the early 1880s their cabin provided a hideout for outlaws. In
1886 Belle again became a widow after Sam was killed during a dispute.
The legendary Belle Starr's only documented crime was the theft of a
horse in 1882. On February 3, 1889, she was shot in the back by an
unknown assailant and was buried at Youngers' Bend.
Belle Starr & Deputy U.S. Marshal Tyner Hughes
SEE ALSO: LAW ENFORCEMENT, OUTLAWS, TERRITORIAL ERA, YOUNGER GANG
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Carl W. Breihan and Charles A. Rosamond, The Bandit Belle
(Seattle, Wash.: Hangman Press, 1970). Glenda Carlile, Buckskin, Calico,
and Lace: Oklahoma's Territorial Women, ed. Clifton Warren (Oklahoma
City, Okla.: Southern Hills Publishing Co., 1990). Glenda Riley, "Belle
Starr: 'Queen of the Bandits,'" in With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen and
Outlaws in the Old West, ed. by Richard W. Etulain and Glenda Riley
(Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1999). Glenn Shirley, Belle Starr and
Her Times: The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends (Norman: University
of Oklahoma Press, 1982). "Belle Starr," Vertical File, Library Resources
Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Adriana G. Schroeder
c Oklahoma Historical Society
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/ST018.html
