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the barrow’s gas station
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Henry and Cumie Barrow (parents of Clyde and Buck Barrow) owned and operated this location when it was a Star Service Station. The address at the time was 1620 Eagle Ford Road.
Clyde and Buck Barrow spent time living in the home attached to the station. Currently, the building is vacant.
bonnie parker’s grave
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Although Bonnie and Clyde wanted to be buried together, Bonnie Parker's family would have nothing to do with it.
Funeral services were held separately for Bonnie Parker at McKamy-Campbell Funeral Home on May 26, 1934. It was a Saturday, and over 20,000 people attended the funeral. The funeral director's son recalls cards being sent by Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger.
Although originally buried in Fishtrap Cemetery, Bonnie Parker was moved to Crown Hill Memorial Park in 1945. She was 23 years old.
Her epitaph reads:
"As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you."
clyde barrow’s grave
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After Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down in Bienville Parish, Louisiana by lawman Frank Hamer's possee, Clyde Barrow was laid to rest in Western Heights Cemetery on May 25th, 1934. He was 25 years old.
Clyde was buried next to his brother, Marvin "Buck" Barrow, and the two of them share a tombstone engraved with the epitaph:
"Gone but not forgotten."
first state bank
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Bonnie and Clyde (and The Barrow Gang) robbed the Okabena Bank on May 19, 1933. Gunfire was exchanged, but they escaped with $2500.
bonnie and clyde’s hideout
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For twelve days in 1933, neighbors witnessed suspicious activity at this apartment above the two-car garage on the corner of 34th St and Oak Ridge Drive in Joplin, MO. The Barrow Gang (Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, brother Buck Barrow and his wife, Blanche Barrow) played cards and drank here between robberies in Missouri and the surrounding states. Clyde accidentally set off his Browning automatic rifle here while cleaning.
On April 13, 1933, a group of five law enforcement officers surrounded the building, thinking they were about to break up a bootlegging ring. Bonnie and Clyde and the Barrow Gang shot their way out, killing two officers.
Behind they left most of their possessions, including an undeveloped roll of film that produced the iconic cigar-smoking Bonnie photos.