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Charles Arthur FLOYD #82658

3 FEB 1904 - 22 OCT 1934

AKA: Pretty Boy Floyd

Personal Information

  • BIRTH: 3 FEB 1904, Bartow, Georgia, USA
  • DEATH: 22 OCT 1934, St Clair, Columbiana, Ohio, USA

Notes

Charles Arthur Floyd, nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber. He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s. He was seen positively by the public because, during robberies, he burned mortgage documents, freeing many people from their debts. He was pursued and killed by a group of Bureau of Investigation (BOI, later renamed FBI) agents led by Melvin Purvis. Historians have speculated as to which officers were at the event, but accounts document that local officers Robert "Pete" Pyle and George Curran were present at his fatal shooting and also at his embalming. Floyd has continued to be a familiar figure in American popular culture, sometimes seen as notorious, other times portrayed as a tragic figure, even a victim of the hard times of the Great Depression in the United States. Floyd is viewed by many as a prime example of a real life anti-hero.

Parents

Father: Walter Lee FLOYD #82656

Mother: Mamie Helena ECHOLS #82657

 
 
                                                 _Redding Charles FLOYD _+
                                                | (1828 - 1907)          
                        _Charles Murphy FLOYD __|
                       | (1857 - 1935)          |
                       |                        |_Catherine L MURPHY ____
                       |                          (1825 - 1902)          
 _Walter Lee FLOYD ____|
| (1878 - 1929) m 1897 |
|                      |                         ________________________
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|                      |_Mary Elizabeth MORRIS _|
|                        (1858 - 1936)          |
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|--Charles Arthur FLOYD 
|  (1904 - 1934)
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|_Mamie Helena ECHOLS _|
  (1881 - 1978) m 1897 |
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                       |________________________|
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