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From: Gene Philips <>
Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] Re: OKGEN-DFestus Walrus/Brown
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:23:26 -0600
In-Reply-To: <102.23a23504.2b53a9b6@aol.com>


At 11:33 PM 1/12/03, you wrote:
>I am looking for any information I can get on Festus Walrus/Brown. He was a
>full blood Choctaw man. His fathers name MAY have been Testus or Vestus
>Walrus/Brown. They were all from Greenleaf, Oklahoma. Festus was born around
>1861 or so. He was 18 in 1880 when he married Sarah "Louisa" Wallace/Wallis.
>They moved to Texas.
>Festus ran with the Jesse James gang (I was told) and he was shot and killed
>by US Marshalls in the Badlands, he was 52 or 53 when he was shot and killed.
>That was in about 1905-1914 or so. I am not sure where he is buried. Texas or
>Oklahoma.


Here is a webpage that lists members of the James-Younger Gang. I did a quick look and didn't see a match, but you might look at it closer.

http://www.islandnet.com/~the-gang/bio.htm


Gene

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