Constable John Stark - Shot and killed 20 Feb 1873 while after horse thieves.

Denison Police- Officer John Shannon Day- shot and killed 5 Feb 1874 while attempting an arrest. 

Denison Police- Officer Charles Patman - shot 2 May 1874 while attempting an arrest. 

Marshal Kirkland C. Ayers of Whitesboro, Hit on head and killed while attempting arrest in a saloon.

Constable James A. Nelms shot and killed 4 Jul 1879 while attempting arrest at a saloon in Denison.

Police Officer Joseph E. Johnson shot and killed 30 Oct 1879 attempting an arrest.

City Marshall Samuel D. Ball of Sherman, shot and killed while throwing a drunk from a saloon.

Constable Dallas Hodges of Gordonville, shot and killed 5 May 1881 attempting arrest of horse thieves.

Deputy Sheriff Reuben D. Coleman shot and killed 8 Jul 1881 while in posse and attempting to arrest the killer of Constable Dallas Hodges.

Sheriff Robert L. May   shot and killed 26 May 1889 attempting to make an arrest near Howe. 

Town Marshall James Isbell of Bells, shot and killed 17 Jan 1891 attempting to make an arrest.

Deputy City Marshall of Howe-Albert Jordan, shot and kille 20 Mar 1903 attempting an arrest in Howe. 

Deputy Sheriff Lee D. Burgess, 36, died after making an arrest and was in route to the jail of a heart attack. 21 Dec 1906.

Police Officer John A. Crane ,delayed death, died of gunshot wounds 12 Sep 1907.

Deputy Constable Thomas Frederick Mounger - shot and killed 27 Sep 1911 in Sherman.

Chief of Police W.L. Echols, Van Alstyne, shot and killed by bank robbers 23 Mar 1929.

Special Deputy Sheriff Howard Gunter ~ killed in an automobile accident while making an arrest and transporting prisioners, 25 Apr 1934.

City Marshal Ches. H. Estes of Whitesboro, shot and killed 4 Feb 1935 attempting arrest of a rapist.

Police Officer, Sergeant Donald Clark Arnold shot and killed 23 Dec 1969 by an armed robber.

Police Officer James Lamance of Whitewright, shot and killed 23 Dec 2000 while stopping a drunk driver.

Taken about 1893 Sherman Police Officers From Larry Hamblen <lahamblen@hotmail.com> John Breckinridge Kelly,(later of the Fire Department)  according to the Kelly family is thought to be on the right- standing. He married Emma Hamblen. James Shattles- He is thought to be on the left (standing)above.

Pleasant M. Porter - Grayson County Sheriff