Rube Burrow
Alabama Desperado
Legends of Rube Burrow & Gang
Contents
Introduction 6
About Rube Burrow 7
Rube the Man, Photos, Fellowship
Baptist Church Cemetery, Early Books,
About Family and Photos, Eight Train
Robberies
It is Said That 15
Tidbits about Rube Burrow
Timeline 21
Key information arranged chronologically
More Mysteries 46
Help Author Solve
Newspaper Articles 47
1888 January 13, 16, 24, 27
February 3, 4, 10, 17,
July 6
1889 July 18
August 1, 8
September 18, October 31
November 2, 7, 14, 18, 28
December 19
1890 March 10, 13, 27, 30
July 28
October 9, 16, 23, 28
1890 November 14, 21
December 31
1891 January 1, 15, 22
September 17
1893 June 3
1894 January 8
1895 May 3
June 15
1898 July 20
1912 November 27
More Photos 90
Sulligent, Courthouse, Sulligent
Depot, Stagecoach Inn, Crews Depot,
Summers Store, Moses & Mary Jane
Newell Graves, Jewell Post Office
Marlin Rifle 95
In Alabama Archives
Comic Strip 96
“They Died With their Boots On”
Confessions & Statements 99
Leonard C. Brock alias Joe Jackson,
William Brock, Jim McClung, W. M. Shoemaker,
Engineer Therrill
Events 125
Duck Hill Robbery, Moses Graves Murder,
Escape at Broxton’s Ferry, Rube Pays John
Barnes a Visit, Flomaton, Ala. Robbery
Legends 139
Various Legends Submitted
Letters 157
Written by: Rube Burrow, Jim Burrow, Rube
Smith, Leonard C. Brock
Jesse & Frank 163
Two Black Men Did What Hundreds of
Lawmen Could Not Do
Burrow Family Story 171
Mrs. Evie Livingston Tells Her Family’s
Story
The Rube Burrow Affair 187
From History of Myrtlewood, Ala.
Persons of Interest 201
G. W. Agee, John C. Anderson, James
Barker, John Barnes, Clint Bonner,
Leonard C. Brock, William Brock,
Henderson Bromley, Eugene Bunch,
James Buchanan Burrow, L. Martin Burrow,
Jim Cash, George Ford, Jack Guyton, John
Hecker, James A. Hathcock, Jesse Hildreth,
Chester Hughes, T. V. Jackson, Frank Marshall,
Jim McClung, John McDuffie,
Jeff Moody, S. F. Pennington, Robert Sizer,
Rube Smith, Fletcher Stevens, Nep Thornton,
Harry Tracy, Charles Wells
Afterword 217