Played by country music icon Tim McGraw, James Dutton is the patriarch of 1883. Some time later, the three dissatisfied members also returned and new plans began to form. While their older brother "Bill" Dalton never joined any heists, he served as their spy and informant. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. [11] He was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned. Right as Hensley left, deputy McCardle heard the sound of footsteps come from the same direction where they had spotted Dean. John Dutton III John Dutton III ( Kevin Costner) is a man that hardly needs any form of introduction. They turned around, and went through the back door, carrying both rifles and sack bags, while taking two other bank employees as cover. 6 Jun 2001 Family Group Sheet Husband: James Lewis DALTON died at age: 64 Born: 16 Feb 1826 in Mt. Tom Evans, on the other hand, was reported to be the fraternal twin of outlaw Chris Evans, who at the time of the Coffeyville raid was a fugitive hiding out in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of James Dalton Hatcher to show support. The Daltons were also featured in yet another Randolph Scott Western, Randolph Scott himself plays Bill Doolin in the film, "The Dalton Gang" is a half-hour, 1954 episode of the American TV series, The Dalton Gang appears in the Italian comic book, This page was last edited on 4 March 2023, at 07:01. Dalton took part in several robberies with the Wild Bunch, including a gun battle on September 1, 1893, at Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, where three deputy U. S. marshals were killed. The deep canyons of the area, covered with dwarf cedar and blackjack oaks, made it an ideal hiding place. (UP) , Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, USA, May 3 1871 - Belton, Comt De Cass, Missouri, tats-Unis, July 13 1937 - Comt De Los Angeles, Californie, tats-Unis. The deputy handed the message to Judge Burford, who read it aloud to the audience. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. Grat ordered Elwood to unhitch one of his horses, which he did. Doolin, Newcomb, and Pierce visited the Daltons' mother in Kingfisher to console her after her sons' deaths. Lewis Dalton came west from Kentucky to Missouri during the late 1840s and in the 1850s, he was trading horses and running a saloon in Westport, Missouri (now Kansas City) when he married Adeline. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. From their position, Kay and his deputies were fifty yards from Dalton and Dean, who were both discussing their plan to hunt one of Elwood's hogs for Christmas dinner. When approached by Kay, Bill told him, "The boys were there when I went to sleep, and when I awakened they had unlocked and gone. Standing with his back towards him was Bill Dalton, watching the horses and buggy Kay had just left, while nervously working the lever of his winchester. In 1883, viewers meet the Duttons who settle in Montana near Yellowstone National Park and found the Yellowstone Ranch.James Dutton (Tim McGraw) is the patriarch of the family, a Civil War veteran . Bill was interviewed by the Fresno Expositor in September 1891 saying, "The truth is I am like Paddy Miles' boy --- no matter what goes wrong or what depredation is committed, Bill Dalton is always charged with the same."[5]. Looking to earn more money, Bob also became part of the Osage Nation police force in addition to his job as a deputy. Condon & Company's Bank and the First National Bank on opposite sides of the street in Coffeyville, Kansas. Kay tracked the Daltons to their mother's home, and kept watch of the house for a few days before being forced to return to Kingfisher because of bad weather. Chris had continually attested his innocence and any confirmation of his already rumored association with the Dalton Gang would have damaged his case. Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. On Nov 27, 1887, Frank Dalton and another deputy marshal, Jim Cole, went across the river from Fort Smith to arrest three whiskey bootleggers. The Journal acknowledged witnesses statements then and in a later article that there were two major unanswered questions: who was the sixth man seen riding into town with the gang, and what happened to him? He spotted Bob just as he had killed Brown and aimed his rifle at him from behind the store window. They used the bar they had cut out to pry open the grating in the wood room window and, instead of risking going and putting it back, left the broom handle in its place. The weather conditions during his escape led him to becoming sick with pneumonia, so he stayed near Livingston for several weeks, sleeping in Gray's cupola and watching the surrounding plains with an eyeglass for any sight of a posse. The Daltons were featured in Randolph Scott's Western. What Bill didn't know is that Beckenridge was also a consulting attorney for the Southern Pacific railroad. Maggie Rucker, the woman who once ran the Cross Creek Overland station, was sitting with another girl alone in the front room, silently making dresses. Grat heard the revolver shots from the Express agent. Emmett Dalton received 23 gunshot wounds and survived (he was shot through the right arm, below the shoulder, through the left right, in some accounts hip and groin, and received 18-23 buckshot in his back). Williams. After getting tired of waiting, they left, only to learn later the fate of the gang.[10]. Although the Daltons may have been inspired by their famous cousins' exploits, the Youngers were much older and were in prison at the time of the Dalton Gang's activities. Brother of Charles Benjamin Dalton; Henry 'Cole' Coleman Dalton; Louis Kossuth Dalton; Bea Elizabeth Dalton; Littleton "Lit" Lee Dalton and 11 others; Lelia Dalton; Frank Dalton, Deputy U.S. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. Grat had already been known in the San Joaquin Valley as a heavy drinker, fighter, and gambler, so when Kay passed Grat on the street while in Modesto his deputy George Witty was easily able to recognize him. Ken Haas 4/22/12. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. The next day, Christmas Eve, 1891, the posse of both Sheriff Kay and Sheriff Hensley woke up at three in the morning and ascended the mountain to Dalton's camp. Chris Evans and Grat Dalton had become friends while working together in Tulare County during the summer of 1888, at the Grangers Bank of California's wheat warehouses in Tipton and Pixley. Kay stopped Grat in the street and said, "Say, I hear you have some two-dollar bills. The cellmates would sing and talk to drown out the sound of the saw. He decided to watch the outside of the place at night to see if he could catch in the act whoever was trying to open the grating. Towards the end of the trial, Sheriff Kay, Detective Smith, and District Attorney Power talked to Grat while taking him back to his cell from the court room when Beckenridge wasn't present. This was unknown to Grat, since the Dalton brothers had all assumed that Emmett had killed the fireman. Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 July 13, 1937) was an American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. There was also little incentive among Deputy Marshals to search for potentially dangerous outlaws, their only pay being for fees and a set amount for each criminal they arrested. Kay hung around Grat for a few hours and talked to him most of the time until Witty returned. The newly formed Oklahoma Territory had organized their own sheriff and city police departments, but there was so far very little cooperation between them. The three returned fire and held out, waiting for the time lock to open. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. They waited until the heavy bearded, two-hundred and thirty pound man was thirty feet from them. None of the Dalton gang was hit. Emmett Dalton was portrayed by Frank Albertson. [14] Most of Sheriff Kay's information on Chris Evans came from his deputy Perry Byrd, who also happened to be Evans' brother-in-law, but Kay had other supporting information as well. Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! William was born on March 24 1690, in Lunenburg, Virginia, USA. This is now known as Dalton Alley. When they came back into the front room both Maggie Rucker and the girl remained quiet as they both expected Kay to have been killed. Marshal S.T. Some years later, Lit Dalton asserted that Bob and Emmett had told him many times that they had robbed the train. Bob and Emmett met Grat and the others in the alley, the sacks of money still over their arms. Beckenridge showed up to the trial late and drunk, and neither the defense, nor the prosecution mentioned that the fireman had been accidentally killed by the expressman. Bob shot him in the head, killing him. Emmett thought Grat would mess things up if he went alone with Powers and Broadwell, and thought they should trade places. While the Indian Nations had their own tribal law enforcement, these agencies had no jurisdiction over non-Indians. The men split into three groups to cover all approaches to the camp. This is where. The three then rode to the ranch of Clovis Cole, northeast of Fresno, and asked Lit if he could furnish them a horse and saddle. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching technology The tailor remembered the coat, but he couldn't remember who had bought it, only that some girl had picked it up once it was clean. Kay knew this was untrue as he had seen two men cross the road. The Dalton brothers were raised in a large family of mostly well-mannered siblings. Emmett had 4 siblings: Elsie Bosiger (born Dalton (Bosiger)) and 3 other siblings. The brothers who were members of the Dalton Gang were Bob, Grat, Emmett, and Bill.[4]. Unless there was a high enough reward being offered, they would instead choose to focus their attention on petty criminals. The Journal then went to state that, "The other dead body proved to be that of Tom Evans" and marked number six on their map of the shooting area as "Where Tom Evans fell" and in three other references to him The Journal called him Tom. Lit noticed that Grat's horse was indeed limp and agreed to help Grat sell it. The Dalton family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. NOTARY PUBLIC NOTE: Complete reverse side of family tree form also Form FT-1 Grandparents Aunts and Uncles First Cousins **First Cousins Once Removed Kay found out that, before they had arrived, Bob and Emmett had got into a fight at one of the saloons there and badly beat up two cowboys before leaving for Topeka. [12], Lit, the last surviving Dalton brother, responded to a book written by his brother Emmett after the latter's death. Short then turned and the two shot each other to death. In 1918, he portrayed himself in the movie version of his book Beyond the Law.[3]. The next morning, Grat called Wagy over to his cell and asked him where he got such a cold. As the Daltons made their way west down the alley towards the horses, Town Marshal Charles T. Connelly came through the livery stable into the alley and ran east towards the plaza without noticing the bandits behind him. Powers tried to mount his horse, but shots from the store also killed him. The outlaws had worn masks during the Alila robbery, concealing their identities. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Knowing that Kay was hot on their trail, they traveled east through Arizona into New Mexico. Here, they secured more than $19,000. In 1910 he bacame a special Peace Officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. By the time Grat reached his mother's he had lost forty pounds. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. This is why Grat was able to notice Deputy Wagy hiding in a yard across the street from the jail. People . Hello!". Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. He moved to Hollywood, California, and became a real estate agent, author, and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66. Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. The next robbery was on July 14, at Adair, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas border. Instead he caught a cold from sitting in the fog all night. The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. They missed Bob and Emmett by only twelve hours in Cananea, then lost their trail completely in Fronteras. The first look into the Dutton family technically began with Yellowstone, but the first branch of the family tree is filled out with the characters we met in its prequel, 1883. Most officers believed that Grat immediately escaped the county, but Sheriff Kay thought otherwise. Eddie Milton Payne, age 78, of Dalton, Georgia, passed away Monday February 27, 2023 at Hamilton Medical Center. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. As soon as the judge had finished, Bill announced, "Well, I can prove that I was not there, and not by accident either."[6]. Joining afterwards were Bill Doolin, Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and Charley Pierce. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. John Dalton, who was the brother of William Dalton the Elder, married Mary Newman Brockenbrough, the widow of William Brockenbrough on 6 May 1702. He's uprooted his life as a Tennessee farmer in search of a better life as part of the Westward Expansion. The remaining years of Emmetts life were spent on the stage, writing a book on the family and the Raid "When the Daltons Rode" in 1931 and as a real estate developer in California. On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. He spent 15 years in prison in Kansas State Prison, before winning a pardon in 1907. Kay and Ford checked all the stages and trains out of Ogden and telegraphed ahead of all others. Grat began to say something about a horse, but then became suspicious. The first possibility is town of Dalton, in Lancashire, England, which was originally named Dale-ton, and meant the town in the dale. Bob and Emmett then took a train headed back to Needles before stopping at Kingman. Before the Coffeyville raid, Bill Dalton had returned to Oklahoma, later joining Bill Doolins gang and then forming his own gang. In it she implied that her father was the one who helped Grat Dalton escape from the Visalia Jail, lending credibility to an earlier claim made by Sheriff Gene Kay of this being true. The four future outlaws first worked as cowboys, but, in 1887, their older brother Frank, a federal deputy marshal, was killed by whiskey runners; in deference, Grat, Bob, and Emmett pinned on lawmens badges. Even though Sheriff Kay had given up his pursuit of the boys, they still had a $3000 bounty on their heads posted by Wells Fargo and the Southern Pacific Railroad, encouraging lawmen in the area to pick up where Kay had left off. As a former lawman, Bob knew the difficulty officers had enforcing laws in Indian and Oklahoma Territories. After spending a few weeks tracking and arresting Arvil Beck and W.B. Kay was informed by Bill's father-in-law, Clark Bliven, that Bob and Emmett planned to meet Cole in Salt Lake, so Kay headed to Chico where he planned to cut him off. After making the opening, they ran around the corridors, kitchen, and basement for several nights. While six men were confirmed to had been seen riding into town, other witnesses that day were all in agreement that upon reaching town there were only five men in the group. Sheriff Kay was forced to give up the chase in order to return to California for Grat's trial. The eight armed guards on the train all happened to be at the back of the train when it pulled in. By 1889, however, they had drifted into horse stealing, while still wearing badges, and a year later were discredited and forced out of policing altogether and took up horse thievery full-time, gathering together a gang. Two hardware stores in the town had, meanwhile, begun passing out guns to the local civilians, who began firing through the windows at the Condon Bank. Bill, thrown off his guard, quickly turned around and mimicked the greeting, "Kay! Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. In 1918, he portrayed himself in the movie version of his book Beyond the Law. A detailed bio on a Dalton Brothers webpage declares "We play two kinds of music: Country and Western" and notes that the group took inspiration from country legends including Willie Nelson,. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. Bob and Emmett returned fire and left Ayres on the sidewalk. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. He claimed that Bob, Grat, and Emmett had all made at least two trips to Bill's ranch in California during that time and that at least one of them would show up to his saloon to get a gallon demijohn full of whiskey to bring back to the rest. Marshal. Very soon, half the businessmen around the plaza knew what was going on, and the message quickly passed throughout the town. Grave of Dalton gang in Coffeyville, Kansas, Bob Dalton, with an unidentified woman (possibly Eugenia Moore), May 9, 1889. He then decided the sack bag was too heavy to carry, and ordered the silver taken out, then stashed what cash he could fit into his coat pockets. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. Bob Dalton had ambitions. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Bill Dalton and Bill Doolin had been waiting several miles away with extra horses to aid the gang's escape. Emmett Dalton survived the raid but received 23 gunshot wounds. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. When he returned the next day to watch the house, he discovered that Bob and Emmett had escaped. alton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Bea Elizabeth Lelia Phillips (born Dalton), Littleton "lit" Lee Dalton, John Franklin Dalton, Grat Roy Reynolds Dalton, Roy Johnson, Genie Gilstrap Perrier (born Dalton), May 3 1871 - Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, July 13 1937 - Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States. McCardle's bullet flew straight over Dalton, but Grat's bullet struck the tree within inches of McCardle's face and filled his eyes with bark. The man was Riley Dean and he did as he was told. He was afraid some of his friends would be hurt, but Bob assured him there would not be any shooting, and that it would all be over before anyone knew what happened.