Grayson County Lawmen Who Died in Service
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Constable John Stark - Shot
and killed 20 Feb 1873 while after horse thieves.
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Denison Police- Officer John
Shannon Day- shot and killed 5 Feb 1874 while attempting an arrest.
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Denison Police- Officer Charles
Patman - shot 2 May 1874 while attempting an arrest.
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Marshal Kirkland C. Ayers
of Whitesboro, Hit on head and killed while attempting arrest in a saloon.
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Constable James A. Nelms
shot and killed 4 Jul 1879 while attempting arrest at a saloon in Denison.
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Police Officer Joseph E.
Johnson shot and killed 30 Oct 1879 attempting an arrest.
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City Marshall Samuel D. Ball
of Sherman, shot and killed while throwing a drunk from a saloon.
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Constable Dallas Hodges of
Gordonville, shot and killed 5 May 1881 attempting arrest of horse thieves.
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Deputy
Sheriff Reuben D. Coleman shot and killed 8 Jul 1881 while in posse and
attempting to arrest the killer of Constable Dallas Hodges.
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Sheriff
Robert L. May shot and killed 26 May 1889 attempting to make
an arrest near Howe.
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Town
Marshall James Isbell of Bells, shot and killed 17 Jan 1891 attempting
to make an arrest.
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Deputy City Marshall of Howe-Albert
Jordan, shot and kille 20 Mar 1903 attempting an arrest in Howe.
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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.
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Police Officer John A. Crane
,delayed death, died of gunshot wounds 12 Sep 1907.
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Deputy Constable Thomas Frederick
Mounger - shot and killed 27 Sep 1911 in Sherman.
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Chief of Police W.L. Echols,
Van Alstyne, shot and killed by bank robbers 23 Mar 1929.
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Special
Deputy Sheriff Howard Gunter ~ killed in an automobile accident while making
an arrest and transporting prisioners, 25 Apr 1934.
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City Marshal Ches. H. Estes
of Whitesboro, shot and killed 4 Feb 1935 attempting arrest of a rapist.
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Police Officer, Sergeant
Donald Clark Arnold shot and killed 23 Dec 1969 by an armed robber.
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Police Officer James Lamance
of Whitewright, shot and killed 23 Dec 2000 while stopping a drunk driver.
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Taken about 1893 Sherman
Police Officers
By 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.
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