Born along the Chisholm Trail and on the banks of Wildhorse Creek, the Marlow family became known through events that proved more fact than fiction. Dr. Williamson Marlow and his wife, Martha Jane, a relative of Daniel Boone, established a homestead in this area during the early 1880’s, with the original family home reportedly just north of Redbud Park. Dr. Marlow treated settlers in this part of Indian Territory and cowboys driving cattle up the Chisholm Trail, and he also farmed while his sons herded horses and sold many to the U.S. Army at nearby Ft. Sill. After Dr. Marlow died in 1885, his five sons were accused in 1888 of horse-stealing, a charge later proven unfounded. Four brothers, Charlie, Alfred, Boone, and Lewellyn, were arrested and taken by a U.S. Deputy Marshall to Federal Court in Graham, Texas, for trial. George Marlow brought the family to Graham to clear his brothers and was soon jailed as well. Boone escaped and returned to the Marlow area in Indian Territory, while the other four were to be moved to a supposedly safer jail in Weatherford, Texas. After several failed lynching attempts by Graham citizens and law officers, George and Lewellyn were shackled together and Charlie and Alfred were shackled together on the night of January 19, 1889, for the trip to Weatherford. At Dry Creek outside Graham, a signal brought gunfire from a hidden mob. The guards joined the attackers, but the brothers jumped from the wagon, seized guns from guards, and fought back. Lewellyn and Alfred were killed, and George and Charlie were badly wounded. George used a dead mob member’s knife to unjoint his dead brothers’ ankles, and he and Charlie escaped the ambush site in a wagon. Three mob members were also killed and others were wounded, and several attackers were later prosecuted and convicted. Boone was later poisoned near Hell Creek west of Marlow, and his body was shot in an attempt to collect a $1,500 reward, but his killers were also brought to trial. Alfred, Boone, and Lewellyn were buried in a small cemetery at what was once Finis, Texas, outside Graham. George and Charlie survived, later moved their families to Colorado, and became respected citizens and law enforcement officers. In 1891, after sentencing members of the mob for their part in the attack, Federal Judge A.P. McCormick called the brothers’ resistance a unique example of shackled, unarmed prisoners repelling a mob.