Turlock Memorial Park is the resting spot of notorious outlaw William "Bill" Marion Dalton of the infamous Dalton Gang. Dalton's remains are buried in an unmarked grave with his father-in-law, Cyrus Blevin, who was the father of his wife Jane Bliven. Bill and Jane were married June 1885 and they had produced two children, Charles Coleman Dalton and Gracie Dalton.
Dalton was born in 1865 and reportedly dabbled in politics while living in Tulare. Dalton had lived in Livingston for five years where he farmed and ranched before moving to Indian Territory in 1891.
His brothers, Gratton, Bob and Emmett Gratton allegedly came to visit Bob and on the trip robbed a train near Earlimart, Calif. Whether or not Bill participated nobody really knows. Bob and Grat were captured, but later escaped.
When his brothers were killed in the infamous 1892 raid on Coffeyville, Kansas, Bill moved to Oklahoma where he met Bill Doolin. The two formed the Doolin Dalton Gang or the Oklahombres, but it became best known as the Wild Bunch. For three years they committed robberies of banks, stage coaches and trains in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas. On Sept. 1, 1893, they were trailed to Ingalls, Okla., where they had a shootout. Bill allegedly shot and killed Deputy US Marshal Lafeyette Shadley. Bill Dalton left the Doolin Dalton gang and form his own Dalton Gang and they robbed the First National Bank of Longview, Texas, on May 23, 1894.
Various posses would kill three of the members and send the last one to life in prison.
Legend has it that Dalton, 29, was playing with his children at the log cabin of gang affiliate Houston Wallace near Elk (later Pooleville), Okla., when on June 8, 1894, a posse tracked him down. He saw a lawman and dove back in the house for his gun. He was cut down in a hail of bullets and died in the yard. His wife identified his body, and had it shipped back to Livingston for burial at her parent's house. The body was exhumed and buried next to the grave of Cyrus Bliven, who died on May 12, 1902. The grave is marked by a tall monument in the southwest corner of the cemetery opposite the Circle K on West Main.