Belle Starr - Porum, Oklahoma
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The Snowdog
N 35° 18.140 W 095° 20.280
15S E 287421 N 3909078
Belle Starr is buried near the home where she lived until the end of her life - near Porum, Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WM160H2
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/07/2022
Views: 3
Belle Starr was a notorious American outlaw, know for her association with the James-Younger Gang and other outlaws. Her introduction to the thug life began early; her brother was active in campaigns against Federal troops during the Civil War, and later her husband James Reed would often turn to crime; at one point he was wanted for murder. They later fell in with the Starr clan, a group of outlaw Cherokees. After Reed's death Belle married Sam Starr and acquired the name under which she became famous. Sam was killed in a gunfight, leaving her (again) a widow. She was killed (some say by her own double-barrel shotgun) just two days before her 41st birthday, in a crime that has never been explained or solved.
Belle Starr's grave is near the cabin in which she lived at the time of her death. There is a little bit of parking just off the highway right by the Younger's Bend historical marker, and then about a six-hundred-foot hike up a woodland trail. The grave site is not handicap accessible.
Shed not for her the bitter tear,
Nor give the heart to vain regret.
'Tis but the casket that lies here,
The gem that filled it sparkles yet.
First Name: Belle
Last Name: Starr
Born: 02/05/1848
Died: 02/03/1889
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