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[20th-century-railroading]

Louisville & Nashville FP7 #654, pressed into freight service, heads west near Cottondale, Florida on March 3, 1962.

[tourintexas]

If you’re old enough to remember the stories about Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, Pretty Boy Floyd, and many other 1930′s criminals, then chances are you’ll also remember hearing of “Machine Gun” Kelly. 

Kelly’s birth name was actually George Kelly Barnes.   During his life of crime, he started identifying himself as George Kelly; probably in hopes of eluding the police.    His second wife and partner in crime, Kathryn, bought him a Thompson machine gun which led to his nickname of Machine Gun Kelly.

Kelly was eventually caught and sentenced to life in prison; where he died of a heart attack in 1954.   When no one would claim his body, one of his accomplices had it brought to the small community of Cottondale, Texas, where Kelly was laid to rest among the accomplice’s family.   

Hoping to protect the gravesite from vandals, Kelly’s inconspicuous headstone was deliberately mislabeled as “George B. Kelley”.     In the area of the cemetery around the gangster’s headstone, there are many other graves of people having the last name “Kelley”.     This helps Machine Gun Kelly’s grave marker just blend in with the crowd.   

Hidden in plain sight in a small cemetery, behind a small church, in a small community, is the grave of a hugely notorious man.    Rest in peace, George “Machine Gun” Kelly Barnes. 

[glenn7517]

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