Robert Ford (outlaw), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American outlaw
Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1862
Place of Birth: Ray County, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 08-Jun-1892
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Robert Ford (outlaw)
- Robert Newton Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was an American outlaw best known for killing his gang's leader Jesse James in April 1882, to collect a reward and a promised amnesty for past crimes.
- For about a year, Ford and his older brother Charles performed paid re-enactments of the killing at publicity events.
- Later he drifted around the West, operating saloons and dance halls. Ford was shot to death at the age of 30 in Creede, Colorado, by Edward Capehart O'Kelley, who attacked him in Ford's temporary tent saloon.
- Ford was first buried in Creede.
- His remains were later exhumed and reburied in the Richmond Cemetery in Richmond, Ray County, Missouri.
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