Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Rest in peace Deputy Sheriff Boulware.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

August 1, 2022

Rest In Peace Brother LEO. You are honored and remembered on the 100th anniversary of your EOW.

Officer Mike Robinson (Ret)
Upland Police Dept. CA

January 18, 2018

IN HONORE CASORUM
The promise.... Always honored, never forgotten.

Sgt. T. J. Jones.
Greater Cleveland Transit Police Department, Ohio

January 18, 2015

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Matthew 5:9

Marshal Chris Di Gerolamo
Federal Air Marshal Service

September 13, 2013

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 93rd anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.

Time never dimishes respect, not even 93rd years.

Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya
mother of fallen officer Larry Lasater

Anonymous

January 18, 2011

Deputy Boulware, you will not be forgoten! R.I.P.

Deputy Sheriff
Livingston County (Il) Sheriff's Ofc.

January 18, 2010

YOU ARE REMEMBERED TODAY AND THANK YOU SIR FOR YOUR SERVICE

Pat Van Den Berghe, Manchester, NH
Neighbors for a Better Manchester, NH

January 7, 2008

Okfuskee City News

On Thursday, January 18, 1917, Deputy
L.M. Boulware, 59, was a member of a
posse attempting to arrest a couple of
members of the Poe/Hart gang wanted for a
bank robbery in Harrah hiding out in a
farmhouse owned by Bob Williams,
northeast of Boley. The posse reached the
farmhouse while the bandits were still at
breakfast. Not knowing this, the officers
stopped and called Williams out and asked
him if he had seen two white men pass that
way. At first Williams denied seeing the
men, but soon said; "Yes, they are in the
house now, but don't start any shooting
around here." About that time the men
rushed out at the back door and they came
out shooting as they ran.

Jess Litterell, one of the bandits, dodged
into a hen house and escaped the attention
of the officers for a short time. Russell
Tucker, the other bandit, ran down into a
cotton patch, and was followed by part of the
posse, Deputy Boulware in the lead.
Boulware called for a number of times for
Tucker to stop and surrender but was only
answered by shots. Finally, Boulware shot at
the bandit, one shot striking him exactly in
the center of the forehead, killing him
instantly. Several of the posse were shooting
at Tucker, and it is not known at this writing
how many times he was struck, but it is
conceded that it was one of the shots fired
by Deputy Boulware that killed him.

This incident had attracted the attention of
most of the members of the posse, and
Litterell, the bandit who had taken refuge in
the hen house, was for a time unnoticed.
When Officer Boulware, however, started to
go to the body of the man he had killed the
concealed bank robber opened fire on him
and then called out; "Come to me, you
_______ _____ !" Officer Boulware,
however, had received his death wound, and
only replied; "I can't come, I am killed." He
then fell and expired in a few minutes.

The remainder of the posse engaged in a
gun battle until Litterell was wounded three
times and surrendered after his partner,
Russell Tucker, was killed by the posse.

L.M. Boulware, who lost his life in the battle,
had resided at Castle since the town started,
and since statehood. He was a terror to
violators of the law, and was an absolute
stranger to fear. He always stood for law
enforcement, and could neither be bought
nor bluffed. Boulware's death is deeply
deplored by a host of friends from all over
the county.

Lonnie Boulware
Great Grandson

May 31, 2006

Deputy Boulware, you are not forgotten

January 18, 2006