 1847 - 1882 (34 years)
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| Name |
Jesse Woodson James |
| Birth |
5 Sep 1847 |
Kearney, Clay County, MO  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
3 Apr 1882 |
St Joseph, Buchanan County, MO [2] |
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| Burial |
29 Jun 1902 |
Mt Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, Clay County, MO [3] |
| Person ID |
I18399 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Robert Sallee James, b. 17 Jul 1818, Logan County, KY d. 18 Aug 1850, Gold fields near Placerville, El Dorado County, CA (Age 32 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Zerelda Elizabeth Cole, b. 29 Jan 1825, Black Horse Tavern, Woodford County, KY d. 10 Feb 1911, Oklahoma City, Cleveland County, OK (Age 86 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
28 Dec 1841 |
Stamping Ground, Scott County, KY [1] |
| Family ID |
F6973 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Zerelda Amanda Mimms, b. 21 Jul 1845, Logan County, KY d. 13 Nov 1900, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO (Age 55 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Apr 1874 |
Wife's Sister's Home, Kearney, Clay County, MO [4] |
| Children |
| | 1. Mary Jane Susan James, b. 17 Jun 1879, Nashville, Davidson County, TN d. 11 Oct 1935, Kearney, Clay County, MO (Age 56 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Gould James, b. 1877, Waverly, Benton County, TN d. 1877, Waverly, Benton County, TN (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Montgomery James, b. 1877, Waverly, Benton County, TN d. 1877, Waverly, Benton County, TN (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Jesse Edwards James, b. 31 Aug 1875, Nashville, TN d. 26 Mar 1951, Glendale, CA (Age 75 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F6974 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- BIOGRAPHY: [Broderbund WFT Vol. 15, Ed. 1, Tree #1589]
Jesse was murdered by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Mo. He was buried 29 June 1902 in Mt. Olivet Cem., Kearney, Clay, Mo. after he was moved from St. Joseph, with his wife. The pallbearers for Jesse were men who served with Jesse under Quantrill. Jesse was anxious to surrender and serve time and get out to be with his family but that didn't work. Jesse Jr. looked through the files in Kansas City and found a lot of crimes were charged up to the account of his hunted and outlawed father. One week would be a bold robbery in MO , saying it was the James Gang. Then the next week there would be a robbery in Texas, again the James Gang. Jesse Jr. said to have committed one-fourth of these crimes, his father would have to have been equipped with some means of extra-terrestrial transportation for him to rob a bank in West Virginia on Monday night and hold up a train in Texas three nights later. The very day Jesse was killed there was a bank robbery in Texas that the newspapers attributed to Jesse James Gang.
BIOGRAPHY: [Broderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4693]
By Russell M. Marshall, Sr., 9357 Bruce Dr., Franklin, Ohio
Jesse James was killed from ambush by Bob Ford. These famous outlaws Frank and Jesse Woodson James roamed and robbed far and wide and their gang had many things attributed to them not done by them. Jesse's middle name is given from a relationship to the Woodson family a branch of my family Anna Arzella Woodson my great grandmother who married Andrew Johnson, their son John my grandmother and dad's mother's family who lived in Rockcastle County, KY where Frank and members rode through there and would hide out reportedly after some of their raids into West Virginia, etc. A would-be hero deputy of Rockcastle County, KY heard they might be coming that way and lay an ambush for Frank and cohorts and one of the gang was wounded but the rest escaped. Another Woodson relative and her niece visited me in 1994 from Independence, MO and told me her grandmother as a small girl as Frank James had stopped over at the Woodson home where they had been fed and kept hidden had bent over off of his horse and given her grandmother a gold coin which she had treasured into her old age. To date I've not uncovered the middle name association of Jesse Woodson James so maybe a future family might because I've not got the health or resources at this present time, 1996. Frank and Jesse's father died during the 49ers Gold Rush in California and Frank lived until 1915 and is buried in the same town as my mother's grandpa in Kearney, Nebraska. [The author may be confusing Kearney, Neb. With Kearney, Mo., but Frank isn't buried there either! He's in Independence, MO] . . .
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| Sources |
- [S893] The James Family by Phillip W. Steele.
- [S287] Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 7, Ed. 1, (Name: Release date: October 17, 1996;), Tree #1610.
- [S593] Ann Tucker Royal, Files of Ann Tucker Royal.
- [S891] Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1, Tree #1589.
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