Marvin Ivan Barrow (March 14, 1903 – July 29, 1933) was a member of the Barrow Gang

Barrow Gang

The Barrow Gang was an American criminal organization of the 1930s active between 1932 and 1934. They were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who as a gang traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits were known nationwide...

. He was the older brother of the gang's leader, Clyde Barrow

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934...

. He and his wife Blanche

Blanche Barrow

Bennie Iva "Blanche" Frasure was the wife of Marvin "Buck" Barrow and the sister-in-law of Clyde Barrow. Buck and Blanche were part of the Barrow Gang from late March 1933 until their capture on July 24, 1933.-Early life:Blanche Barrow was born in Garvin, Oklahoma...

 were wounded in a gun battle with police four months after they joined up with Bonnie and Clyde. Buck died of his wounds.
Ivan Barrow was born in Jones Prairie, Marion County

Marion County, Texas

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, Texas

Texas

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, the third child of Henry and Cumie Barrow. An aunt, watching the little boy "running around acting like a horse," gave him the nickname "Buck." He stopped going to school around age 8 or 9, enjoying fishing and hunting far better.

In the early 1920s the older Barrow children left the family farm one by one, to marry and start careers in the city of Dallas

Dallas, Texas

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