Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

==Bonnie Parker==
'''Bonnie Elizabeth Parker''' was born in 1910 in Rowena, Texas as the second of three children. Her father, Charles Robert Parker (1884–1914), was a bricklayer who died when Bonnie was four years old.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21527523/charles-robert-parker|website=[[Find a Grave]]}}</ref> Her widowed mother, Emma (Krause) Parker (1885–1944), moved her family back to her parents' home in Cement City, an industrial suburb in [[West Dallas]] where she worked as a seamstress.<ref>Guinn, p. 46</ref> As an adult, Bonnie wrote poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinetropic.com/bonnieandclyde/sal.html|title=The Story of Suicide Sal – Bonnie Parker 1932|work=cinetropic.com|access-date=April 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318055510/http://www.cinetropic.com/bonnieandclyde/sal.html|archive-date=March 18, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and "The Trail's End", the latter more commonly known as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinetropic.com/janeloisemorris/commentary/bonn%26clyde/parkerpoem.html|title=The Story of Bonnie and Clyde|work=cinetropic.com|access-date=April 21, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213121222/http://www.cinetropic.com/janeloisemorris/commentary/bonn%26clyde/parkerpoem.html|archive-date=February 13, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In her second year in high school, Parker met Roy Thornton (1908–1937). The couple dropped out of school and married on September 25, 1926, six days before her 16th birthday.<ref>Phillips, p. xxxvi; Guinn, p. 76...What is this reference? this isn't a real reference</ref> Their marriage was marred by his frequent absences and brushes with the law, and it proved to be short lived. They never divorced, but their paths never crossed again after January 1929. She was still wearing his wedding ring when she died.<ref group=notes>A few months after their breakup, Thornton was convicted and imprisoned for robbery. Parker told her mother, "I didn't get [a divorce] before Roy was sent up, and it looks sort of dirty to file for one now." Parker, Cowan and Fortune, p. 56</ref> Thornton was in prison when he heard of her death. He commented, "I'm glad they jumped out like they did. It's much better than being caught."<ref name="roy" /> Sentenced to 5 years for robbery in 1933 and after attempting several prison breaks from other facilities, Thornton was killed while trying to escape from the [[Huntsville State Prison]] on October 3, 1937.

After the end of her marriage, Parker moved back in with her mother and worked as a waitress in [[Dallas]]. One of her regular customers was postal worker [[Ted Hinton]]. In 1932, he joined the Dallas Sheriff's Department and eventually served as a member of the [[wikt:posse#Noun|posse]] that killed Bonnie and Clyde.<ref>Guinn, p. 79</ref> Parker briefly kept a diary early in 1929 when she was 18, writing of her loneliness, her impatience with life in Dallas, and her love of [[film|taking pictures]].<ref>Parker, Cowan and Fortune, pp. 55–57</ref>