Texas

Texas Prisons & Convicts

Cass County Jail
1930 census of inmates

CB Smith Convict Farm
1900 Index of prisoners.

Young County Jail
Register of Prisoners 1878 – 1893

Texas Outlaws & Criminals

Bonnie & Clyde
Story of Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow of Texas

Clyde Barrow
Outlaw Clyde Chesnut Barrow, the partner-in-crime of Bonnie Parker, was born March 24, 1909, near Telico, Texas.

Flyod Hamilton and Ted Walters
Texas badmen wanted for breaking jail and for numerous holdups and robberies

Cherokee Bill
Biography about the famous outlaw

John Wesley Hardin
Biography of the forty something killer

Curly Bill Brocius
Born somewhere in Texas about 1840 – an ugly gunslinger who’d kill a man on the least provocation and laugh over a card game an hour later.

Bob Herring
Herring was born in 1870 in Eastland County, Texas. Almost from the beginning, Herring was an outlaw and felt destined to continue his ill–conceived lifestyle.

Joe Ball
I think it would be fair to say that Joe Ball was one of the U.S.’s greatest nutcases.

Texas Court Records

Hood County Court Papers
1875 – 1957

Court, Government, & Criminal Records
Court records are an often overlooked, yet very valuable tool for finding information to assist you in your research. Land records, such as deeds, allow you to tie an ancestor to a specific place at a point in time. Other court records like those dealing with finances and estates often list related family members or give interesting details like the total value of property owned by your ancestors to add interest to your family history.

Texas Executions

Executions in Texas
1819 – 1982

Executed offenders
records of all executions since 1982, including last statements.

List of all offenders on Death Row
1923 – 1973