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