Pretty Boy Floyd's Grave! 

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Welcome to the channel and I'm glad you are here. I have quite a bit from both states and there will be more coming. Thank you for watching!

Thank you for watching Bob as well as sharing a little more information that help us all understand the family and area.

Thank you for watching and i appreciate the kind words. Pretty Boy Floyd was a fascinating character in an interesting time period of history.

The Clyde and Buck Barrow graves in Dallas, the HEADSTONES were laid down flat and then set in concrete to keep people from chipping and stealing them. It is a shame people do that. The Barrow Gang caused a fair amount of misery for the families of people they killed, but desecrating their graves is pretty LOW. Great Videos!!!

It's a pretty neat cemetery to walk thru. Thank you for watching.

It is shame they do that. I will never understand why. Thank you for watching Debbie!

Very interesting. Thank you for watching and sharing that.

Indeed it is a strange time in history. Thank you for taking the time to binge watch videos!

You're welcome Todd. Thanks for coming along!

Thank you Barbara! I appreciate you watching and commenting. I have a few things I would love to showcase in Muskogee. Stay tuned!

Thank you Jeff. I appreciate you watching and subscribing.

Thank you Nancy! I appreciate the kind words as well as subscribing.

How goulish could you be to chip off a piece of someone's gravestone as a souvenir??

Yes you're right. They climbed trees, stood on headstones and knocked them down. In fact I've a newspaper report talks about people knocking down fences. I've never seen a fence there at that cemetery so that must mean it was never replaced.

If so your family likely knew mine. Charles Floyd, son of Pretty Boy Charles, was my uncle's (who took role as grandfather to me) best friend. As a child Charles would tell us stories and showed us the belongings of his father. Charles would give talks about his dad at conventions. Both he and my uncle are gone now but by their accounts he, the father, was a decent guy. Not so much Bonnie and Clyde, who killed my real grandpa's buddy in Commerce Oklahoma. Not knowing B and C were long dead the story of the killing scared me and I thought they would get me.

Thank you for sharing. I appreciate you watching and commenting.

He was one of a kind and a fascinating character. I think his antics captured all of the nation and still do! Thanks for watching!

I think some of those people really experienced hard times. Especially during the Great depression. That's very interesting to hear about them though. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thank you! I appreciate you watching. It's a fascinating time to study.

Thank you Tony and I appreciate you watching!

That would be quite the relative. There are a lot of Floyd family members in Oklahoma. Perhaps they would be of help in your research.

RhettyforFun my mom died a few years ago. She had a younger brother she lost touch with a long time ago. Now I live in another country. I’m told on my father’s mother’s side her father was from Palermo and was running from La Cosa Nostra. So I guess I have gangsters on both sides haha.

Some families are like that. They associate and marry with those that are around them.

You bet, thanks for watching Jay!

My pleasure man

I am related to him and I would love to ask you some questions.

Was there today. It had 3 US flags, 2 flowers bundles. Looked nice. Hot sunny with the diggers working on a grave about 40ft away.

@@ashley8597for sure

Thanks for watching my videos. I try to do a lot of research before I make the videos. Especially if they are on historical figures whether good or bad. I'm not taking sides just trying to tell the story. I'd love to visit that East Liverpool area. It's a huge part of the story for Floyd. That car of the Bonnie and Clyde is still around. It's in a Casino out west in Nevada. There are several fakes as well as movie prop ones but I believe that casino has the authentic one. They've had it encased though where you can't touch it so I'm definitely jealous that you could stick a finger in the bullet holes! Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment.

Thank you for subscribing and watching Denita! It's great to have you along for the journey!

That's interesting. I know that he came from a sizable family.

Hey there cousin what's up

That is really interesting that it is still there. I would love to see it some time. Thank you for watching and sharing that little fact.

Stand in front of the south end of the Adairsville Depot and look across the railroad tracks. The house on the corner with a pyramidal roof is the Floyd home. I think that it is mentioned in historical marker. I was the architect-planner for the restoration of the depot and nearby historic buildings.

That's very interesting to learn about. I appreciate you sharing all this with me.

Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

You're right about that. It was too cold to explore too much this day but I do need to go back some day.

Thank you for commenting and watching. I'm happy to hear that you enjoy the videos and are joining me on the journey!

If you ever venture down to the Lawton OK area. Sure would love to meet you and your family. I too like to roam around old and new and abandoned cemeteries all over Oklahoma or other states and of course many other places as well. I to not share any history in my videos. But want people to see, what it is I see through my eyes. And I want to be able to go back on the video, of the memories I have created of all the places I been do. One day, my children be able to go back and look at this videos. Here is a link of an old cemetery in Tennessee, where two big trees grew into an old cemetery fence. I was in awww how beautiful that looked. ~ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xSgmbey0krg.html !

The plan is to venture down that way this summer. There is a lot of material to cover down there!

Give me a holler a day before you leave and maybe we can meet up and I can show you and your family around. There sure is allot to see. Maybe we can visit the grave of famous Apache Chief Geronimo on Ft. Sill OK ?

Thank you Edwin! I appreciate you watching and commenting. I would love to visit the area where he was shot. Hopefully one day I can.

that would be great to see!

I agree!

I agree. I wish it would it would stop. I see it a lot.

RhettyforFun agreed. So disrespectful. My parents would have beat me senseless if I ever did anything like that.

I agree

It hurts me most since he's my great great great uncle

@@sparky6086 its destany we meet up

Thank you for watching!

You're welcome and thank you for watching. That is quite a relative you have.

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

It's all in good fun though giving each branch a hard time. That's quite a relation you have. I know that family quite large though. How many people show up to those reunions?

I actually went tothe one in 2013, but there must have been at least 140-170 folks there. Glendon Floyd, who was one of the nephews was really friendly and outgoing. I believe that he passed in 2015. They were all a very warm and accepting group of people, so you pegged them right.

That's a pretty good sized reunion!

It very well could have been him. What some people don't realize is that there were quite a few other criminals in Oklahoma at that time.

You're right. There are a lot of legends on him. Little difficult to tell whether or not their true. People wanted to believe in something though right in the middle of the depression. Thank you for watching Kathy!

A lot of people describe him as being just that but I really think he wasn't. Thank you for watching Yvonne!

Thanks Tyler.

Thank you for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

I'm glad you enjoyed it and I appreciate you watching!

Thank you for watching Gerald!

The 30's were definitely the decade of the bank robber. The 20's were too. There were a lot more out there that were pretty criminals and often times the robberies got blamed on the more famous ones. Thanks for watching.

That's an interesting relation. There are quite a few of his relatives here in Oklahoma.

So your my cousin

You are really close then. The family was really loved by everyone. I have heard a lot of stories about him being generous as well. Thanks for watching.

Yes it is and I have never understood the fascination with chipping or taking of headstones. Old outlaws of the depression and old west ones seem to be the most popular to do with. I've also noticed it on some rock stars. Thank you for watching!

You're welcome Carole. I appreciate you watching!

@@RhettyforHistory Always.☺

Very strange. I've heard from several of the Floyd family members. Quite a bit from Charlie Floyd's nieces. They aren't denying that he was a criminal nor are they ashamed of him. They've simply stated that they want it to be accurate. After I posted it on an Oklahoma FB page there were people making all sorts of crazy stories about what he did. But if you are related that's really neat. It's a large family so I wouldn't doubt it. Spreads out a lot. Thanks for watching and joining me on the journey. More to come!

Yes, I thought it was funny! I don't think that she was ashamed, so much as her very christian mother lol! I think they moved to Arkansas to escape some of those ties. I will check out the Facebook post to see if anyone looks or sounds familiar. Thank you for the reference!

You're welcome. I think people loved him because of the times. The banks were taking people's property and in a weird way he was getting back at them. We haven't experienced any hard times like that to have it duplicated. And now the police forces are much better equipped than they were then. They would have just had the old farm truck held together with bailing wire and chewing gum. Their own little puny pistol and no training. That's not the case anymore.

Yes! My husband and I were talking about how it's nearly impossible to get away with anything these days, but may be that's a good thing haha! I love to think that his heart was mostly in helping people. I forgot, I also have a video suggestion. There is an old bridge here in Tulsa that crosses over Polecat creek on 33rd W Ave. I used to get a terrible feeling going over it (it's a little creepy) and so I looked it up online. It is rumored that in the fifties a woman took her children down to it and murdered them (gruesome). I've never been able to find any actual newspaper articles or records. I'm curious to know more about it, if you ever get out this way! It's very sad, but also fascinating to me as a mother, how, past or present, anyone could do such a thing.

Very interesting. I've never heard anything about that. If you should happen to find anything on it let me know. Sounds a little creepy.

Thank you!

At least that is the rumor anyways. Many people believe him to have been the Robin Hood of Cookson Hills but the reality may have been very different. Thank you for watching!

You're welcome and thank you for watching.

That would definitely be one to look up and do. Are they buried there?

Thank you Ron!

You never know but they could be related somehow. Thank you for watching!

You're welcome and thank you for watching!

Thank you. I appreciate you watching. I'm sure this is in several books as well as online. The townsfolk will also tell you about that and so will the family.

@@RhettyforHistory Thanks for getting back to me! I shall look into it. I'd love to visit Cookson Hills..Someday!

Thank you! I appreciate you watching.

He was born in Adairsville Ga

Thank you! I appreciate you watching and I'd love to do a collaboration some time.

Love both of you guys channels, hope you do a collaboration!

We'll figure out something! Thanks for watching and commenting.

thanks Michael!

You never know. I also think there were a lot of gangsters or criminals around that people associated with him or thought were him. It's hard to say and not something we could really prove or disprove. It does make some interesting stories though.

There is a museum for Pretty Boy Floyd in London?

@@RhettyforHistory no East Liverpool Ohio...

Ahh ok. Makes sense for it to be up there. I need to make my way up there and see that.

@@RhettyforHistory They fixed it up not that long ago.. So i cant tell you what it looks like now. You are more than welcome to come to East Liverpool. Different little museums and cemeteries in this town..

Thank you for watching Tracy!

Finally someone who respected my great great great uncle

My name is Nicholas Shade. I'm from Gore, Oklahoma I 've been to this site. It was a long time ago though. Gore isn't very far from this cemetery. I don't know exactly how far it is. Only a few miles. I love history. I love Oklahoma. I love Oklahoma history.♏

I didn't know that.

Yes, you're right about that. A beer you can still get.

Yes, you're right about that. A beer you can still get.

@@RhettyforHistory Yes! I have a fondness for it too now.

It's been awhile since I have had it so I can't remember whether I liked it or not.

Wow! You're really close! Thank you for watching.

All i can say is wow.

Where is melvins gun; who has it; now that's a priceless artifact.

Sounds like Hoover got "cross" with the guy. Lol. Outlaw vs Weirdo. I know which epitaph I prefer.

The Floyd family in Oklahoma has always maintained that Floyd wanted nothing to do with Bonni3 and Clyde because the thought they were careless and trouble for him. That bank that you're speaking of is what I show at the end of the video.

he is my moms moms brother

He was a lunatic

Thank you for watching!

Tampa Jay Thanks Jay! I think the red shows up better.

He is an interesting figure to visit. Thank you for watching!

It would be nice to believe that it was but that was associated with many of the depression outlaws of the time. They were hard times and people simply wanted something better and to believe in hope.

Cameras would certainly be q good thing at these high profile graves. Thank you for watching!

Funny how Floyd switched u fool

@@gregwatson8219 , boy, that was low intelligent, lame.

That is a good tale and you just never know. Thank you for watching!

There area lot of tales of him out there and sometimes it becomes difficult to decifer the truth from fiction. He is an interesting gangster though. Thank you for watching.

Thank you

Thank you

That's interesting and I have never heard about that. Thank you for watching.

I'm your nephew then

x heartz he said “may” wasn’t taking any chances. So what’s it it you anyway?

I've heard from many people that he was extremely generous to anyone who helped him out. No matter what the count was he either has the most or second most people at a funeral in Oklahoma. The only other one that is right there with him is Wiley Post.

This was a blistery cold day. A cold front came in unexpectedly. It ended up below freezing. I had no gloves so in order to make the video I had to record a little and then go back in the car and warm up. I kept repeating this over and over. I'll never understand the chipping on stones either but it has been going on for centuries. I see it a lot on old outlaws, gangsters and rock musicians. Thank you for watching!

@@RhettyforHistory awww sorry to hear that. See how great u are though, sticking it out for all of us. You and Mrs Rhetty are amazing

It was so cold that Sarah got out for 30 seconds and said yeah, no I'll stay in the car and keep in warm for you. I was out there for 45 minutes. I had trouble saying what I wanted to. It's certainly the coldest I have been doing a video. I really needed a jacket and gloves.

Yes, Exactly Jason!

exactly.even apply a paper and go over that w/ a pencil, or marker, making a copy of it. anything but mutilating a guy's final resting place. grow up, folks. it would serve 'em right if they felt the barrel of a Thompson at their back by Charlie's 'ghost'.

still waiting for the TV movie(1974) w/ Martin Sheen and Kim Darby to get on YT.

It would be tough. I'm not sure on the specifics of how that was being done. He may have broke in and stole some and yet charged him with all. Thank you for watching.

@@RhettyforHistory I can see how the numeric arrangement of "350" could become convoluted, and my version of the story has no better proof than anyone else's, but I was told his first stolen sum of money was $3.50 in change, (probably WAS pennies because it was from the post office). Even so, that was still a valuable sum because it was during The Depression. But because he was a young boy and his family was well-respected, the law didn't get involved. Instead, most of the money was returned and the missing amount was promised to be paid back (and was). Several members of his family say this was a fateful, bad decision that led Charlie down his lifelong path of robbing instead of an honest living. I don't know what other form of punishment would've been handed down to a minor back then that would've made things turn out differently, though. And almost everyone in his family claimed he was a prankster and looked at his successful heists as sort of "another trick gone well" instead of the dangerous and violent incidents they truly were. He did give a lot of what he stole to the hungry and destitute. Maybe he thought as long as he wasn't doing it strictly for personal gain and was being charitable, a distorted rationale formed in his brain of being forgiven and that helped him justify what he was doing. Mr. Rhetty-this reply was intended for the comment above yours, but a direct reply was not allowed. Thought I'd write it anyway. Decoration Day just passed in Oklahoma. If you ever arrive at an old cemetery and everything looks spruced up, that is why things look fresher than usual. We're all grateful for your work.

In real life the guy that was told to take the credit for killing him on his deathbed told the real truth. He a marksman and he shot floyd while he was running in right elbow kind of spun him but he kept running and the next shot was behind knee and that shot dropoed him Purvis walked up and said this was for Kansas City massacre which with his dying breath denied he did that. Interesting enough floyds partner declared why r u killing as he was being put in electric chair i didn't do kansa city either. Getting back to purvis he had 2 agents fire into floyd killing him stateing" we r not coming up here to try floyd where half the people think he is a hero and the other half r related to him" the fbi guy on his deathbed said it bothered him for 40yrs. Look it up his confession is out there his name was akins. He is in famous photo with a dead floyd at mortuary getting prints his name i forget but u can find it. Floyds son cried during interview in 70's saying they murdered my dad he never did do kansa city. He said murdered his dad 5yrs before deathbed confession from agent

I'm sure it's been hundreds that have done it. I believe the family said this is his third headstone. It gets so bad that eventually they have to pay for a new one.