Ada Jean Willis

As a school child, Ada stayed with her uncle Tom Jones in Tulsa. During those times she also stayed or visited with the stepmother of the famous outlaw Belle Starr. Once, when she had been told not to, she went into Uncle Tom's cellar. He caught her and told her she "never saw anything." Uncle Tom may have been involved in the Coffeyville KS bank robbery in the 1880's or 1890's with the Dalton brothers. He was out of town at the time of the robbery and came back with a bullet wound. Later he came back with alcohol on his breath -- and he never drank -- and he died that night. An autopsy showed that he had been poisoned. [S. L D Ezell and others to Richard Ezell]