Together the James brothers committed countless small-scale robberies over the next few years, though their gang gradually lost members to death in action, arrests, and lynchings. contient des milliers de photos et GeneaStars. In the 1950s, a man dug for gold there for years. The Northfield Bank robbery went down on September 7, 1876. FamilySearch Family Tree enables all descendants to share information that others might not know and add sources to confirm correct information. James was born Alexander Franklin James in Kearney, Missouri to Baptist minister Reverend Robert Sallee James and his wife Zerelda (Cole) James, who had moved from Kentucky. Wikimedia Commons; colorized by Matt Loughrey. They also found symbols similar to those cited by Howk as having been left by James. Somers rode the excavators shovel down into the hole and started opening what he thought looked like a passage deeper into the hill. This could make family connections especially difficult. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. It dawned on me that, in spite of ourselves, we had arrived at that most predictable juncture in a treasure narrative: the moment of reconciling with the absence of treasure. But today the signature Jesse W. James 1882 was invisible, and he didnt have a picture from December. In the end, the FBI said it found no gold. We have to decipher things on our own. Hello Megan, my grandfather Bill Mimms, s/o Gideon Mason Mimms, s/o Drury Shadrach Woodson Mimms, s/o Robert Mimms. He was among the founders of William Jewell College in 1849. Masters degree in 1847. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create . Getler told me he tries to approach the subject as the journalist he used to be. When he needed money, he suspended digging to remodel houses or cut firewood. Public DomainJesse James home in Buchanan County, where he was killed. Starts with Abraham and lists his descendants all the way down to Jesus. As I continued my cautious journey down the rope on that hopeful fourth day when digging was to begin and the hill would yield its secrets, my mind was still open to any possibility. After his death she married a third time to Dr. Reuben Samuel in 1855 when Frank was 13 years old. The group then attacked a train of wounded and deactivated Union soldiers, killing at least 100 men. Gideon Mimms, my great grandfather, was a first cousin of Mrs. Jesse James. Placerville, El Dorado County, California, Marriage of Robert James and Zerilda E Cole, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2D4-S1D4, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ7-1JN, http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1820usfedcenancestry&h=1259936&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt, 1850 US Census: Name: Robert James; Sex: Male; Age: 31; Event Place (Original): Platte, Clay, Missouri, United States; Birth Year (Estimated): 1819; Birthplace: Kentucky; Race: White, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (, "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (. 1 boy died in childhood, and the other 2 boys lived to adulthood, as did his daughter. I wanted to believe there was gold in them thar hills. It was primarily a Southern group but had plenty of Northern sympathizers, including hundreds in a county about an hour north of Zanesville, according to a news report at the time. The trees told an epic story, according to the treasure hunters I was with. I felt as though a spell had been broken. James entered the picture in the early 1960s and mid-1970s when a self-styled private detective named Orvus Lee Howk, who claimed to be Jamess grandson, wrote a book and contributed to another arguing that the outlaw was a KGC leader who buried gold. These records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and are available free online at FamilySearch. On July 21, 1873, infamous outlaw and American folk figure Jesse James robbed his first train in Adair, Iowa with the help of his posse, the James-Younger Gang. The risk of confirmation bias fitting the signs to a desired meaning seemed enormous. Burrell Younger was born in Missouri circa 1827, and he was married to Charlotte, who was born in Missouri circa 1846. Author: Darcy James: Publisher: Total Pages: 32: Release: 1988-06: ISBN-10: 0687214394: ISBN-13: 9780687214396: The Marcus Younger group from Essex/Halifax County, Va.; As more individuals get tested, the DNA signatures will be updated. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. He took a smoke break at one of the only flat places on the hillside, a narrow ledge beside a tree shaped like a W. Somers suddenly had what he described to me as a kind of vision that featured James, wearing an oilskin duster, smoking a cigar, announcing that he would bury his biggest treasure right here. Two years later he assisted in another haul in Oklahoma, following a copy of a map with the symbol JJ and attributed to Jesse James by other treasure hunters. James lived his whole life underground, and theres no collection of [personal] letters from him, Stiles says. Left home to preach the Gospel to the gold miners in California, died about 3 weeks later there. Your grandmother L.V. Jesse Woodson James was born in Missouri on September 5, 1847. Founded 2 churches: The Geralds were said to be Mulatto, but I am unsure of where their white ancestry would have come from. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each . You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Merge needs cleanup. To the Ford brothers shock, they were actually arrested when they dragged James body in to claim the reward. A colorized portrait of a young Jesse James. Now, in Ohio, as a journalist rather than as a dad, I was forced to confront whether the power of this story lay in its truth or its creativity and I knew my job was to be on the lookout for signs the magic was an illusion. Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Barr BETTY'S FIRST LINE OF JAMES ANCESTRY Background of a Bandit by Joan Beamis Add my notes please: Graduated Georgetown College, KY, June 1843 . Pisgah Baptist Church, near Excelsior Springs, MO, 1 of the founders of William Jewell College, Liberty, Clay Co MO[5], First church position in Missouri: New Hope Baptist Church, Clay Co MO. Circa 1864. RootsMagic 9 is normally available for only $39.95. Younger was listed as 5 years old in 1910. People around Purity laughed at him, thought he was wasting his time. In March 1949, a posse of men claiming to be intimates or kin of Jesse James blew into town with a primitive land mine detector to search for $1.5 million in gold that they said was buried somewhere just to the north. He had gone to the trouble of checking signed initials on the map against the handwriting in Howks letters in a Texas archive but Howks veracity is dismissed by historians. The Emancipation Proclamation hadnt affected the state, which had remained officially neutral during the war, but in 1866 the 13th and 14th Amendments abolished slavery in every territory. As the Civil War raged out West, wild bands of raiders and outlaws struck deep into each other's territory to slaughter civilians without mercy. The Kansas Heritage Group also lists all 14 children of Henry Washington Younger and Bersheba Leighton Fristoe (access those names here.). Aker cast doubt on this method because it doesnt account for local growing conditions; the trees could easily be older or younger. By that method, three of the key trees range in age from about 130 to 170 years old, which would date them to the mid- to late 19th century. Descendants of William James Rescued via Web archive By Jane Curci November 24, 2008 at 01:12:25. A DNA test brought the evidence all the way down the James family tree to Oklahoma City attorney Robert Jackson, 65, and his nephew, Mark Nikkel, 36, of Edmond. The treasure hunters were intrigued by a controversial theory that he was part of an underground effort to help the South rise again. The Knights of the Golden Circle really did exist. The sentries shot into the air to clear the street, which soon turned into a gunfight. He was the oldest of three children. Rescued in the Internet archive. Several local collaborators suspected of having worked with the Pinkertons turned up dead in their homes. During the war, they filled the ranks of Confederate forces. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to . I had first encountered Getlers work on the Confederate underground in 2009, when I interviewed him about the oddly related mysteries of Masonic symbology around Washington that best-selling novelist Dan Brown centered in his D.C. thriller that year. I clung to a rope on a nearly vertical hillside in rural Ohio, gingerly inching my way down toward a hand-dug shaft that was said to conceal an enormous cache of solid gold bars. Local lore held that there had been a gold mine in the area a long time ago, and Somers began to wonder if the rumors of a gold mine and the rumors of outlaw gold were conflations of the same story. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. You can chuckle at it. He hurried me on to another elaborately carved tree where he said I would get to see Jamess signature. Local historical societies often have greater knowledge of the history of their area than anyone else, and they can be extremely helpful in pointing you toward research areas and records that they might have available to the public. When they got the commission to capture Jesse James, the Pinkertons moved a little too fast and got caught in an ambush, where a deputy sheriff and several of the agencys men were shot. Research genealogy for Jesse James Greene of Hancock, Tennessee, USA, as well as other members of the Greene family, on Ancestry. The data will show what the data will show, Richards said as his son walked grids on the hill. Any attempts to date the artifact would have to wait. The James farm led a quiet life for the next decade or so, though that quietude did not mean peace. In the decades that followed, stage and screen immortalized the James-Younger gang and Jesse James in particular. I looked for neighbors of the Ohio site who might have family lore about James, in addition to the gold rumors Somers had heard. Mother The work inspired a new generation of KGC treasure hunters; even the FBI joined the chase. Jesse James went on a killing spree after the attack on his house. Deceased persons are not concerned by this provision. It would be incredibly exciting to be a part of discovering and illuminating hidden history. He adds that hes the skeptical one. Im not big on looking at grainy video footage and being 100 percent certain on anything. The elder James then died in California in 1850, never having made the fortunes he was hoping for, and his widow took three-year-old Jesse James and his older brother Frank James back to the family farm where she remarried within a couple of years. Since the early 2000s, Getler has been an entrepreneur and worked in communications for tech companies, including an underground detection technology firm. Bob died of tuberculosis in prison; Cole and Jim received pardons in 1901. I hadnt found what I was looking for, either something solid to hold on to in this swirl of legend, fact and fantasy; a final verdict. Connie Robertson-Butler, Meet the Outlaw Youngers, and a Possible Black Associate. Bloody Bill led the James boys and his unit in the now-infamous raid on Centralia where they killed several unarmed civilians and collected their scalps. Lawrence Henry Barr & Thelma Duncan 4. contient des milliers de photos et GeneaStars. This answer was provided in consultation with Andrew Krea, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The end of the war saw Missouri occupied and under martial law. The Missouri group (previously thought descended from the Halifax group, but the DNA does not match); 5. Major children and living persons must directly contact the. Within several days, after Getler, the Richardses and I had left Ohio, members of Bowsers family relented. This was given to him in honor of the SALLEE family, not related, but an important family. [Or] if they could prove it came from a bank or a railroad, that money could be claimed by the descendants of those corporations., I found myself wrestling with the tension between keeping an open mind and not being deluded. Jesse James natural father, Robert, was a slave-owning Baptist preacher from Kentucky who was always looking for the next big score that would make him rich. Jesse and Frank James rode down the fleeing survivors and shot every man who tried to surrender including the Army major in command. To learn more about wild westerners like outlaw Jesse James, read about these 10 iconic wild west figures. Robert Mimms had a son named John Wilson Mimms, who had a daughter who was the wife of Jesse James, the outlaw. In fact, their failure only validated the almost mystical qualities they attributed to James. Another excellent source for genealogical information to help connect your branch of the Younger family to the outlaw branch of the same name would be the Jackson County (Missouri) Historical Society. Id come to see treasure hunting and amateur code breaking as metaphors for our age, when the traditional arbiters of truth the media, government officials, political parties, religious institutions have lost some, or all, of their authority. Furthermore, the Younger family were also related through the Kentucky & West Virginia lines. Genealogies of the Families of the Presidents, by Henry Buchanan. Before the war they focused on agitating for secession and building a slaveholding empire in a geographic circle encompassing the southern United States, the Caribbean and parts of Latin America. Husband: Jesse Woodson JAMES died at age: 34 Born: 5-Sep-1847 near Centerville, Kearney, MO Died: 3-Apr-1882 in St Joseph, BuchananCo, MO Buried: 1882 in Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, MO Father:. Damn it, he said. Connect with Other Family Members . With the leading experts in the field, NEHGS staff can provide assistance and guidance for questions in most research areas. Family tree of Jesse JAMES Bandit, burglar, crook, privateer Born Jesse Woodson JAMES American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber and murderer Born on September 05, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri, USA , United States Died on April 03, 1882 in St Joseph, Missouri, USA Born on September 05 40 Deceased on April 03 34 The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States, by Walter Lewis Zorn. There were carved rabbits rabbit trails being a reference to paths leading to treasure and a pair of Js carved back-to-back, which, according to Jesse James treasure lore, depicts the outlaws initials. When he recovered, outlaw Jesse James took part in a jailbreak that freed several members of his guerilla gang under leader Archie Clement. If so, login to add it. One of the treasure hunters told the Zanesville Times Recorder that the outlaw had foreseen the invention of metal detectors but knew how to cover [treasure] with something so no machine will ever locate it.. Jesse James had two full siblings: his older brother, Alexander Franklin "Frank", and a younger sister, Susan Lavenia James. But the digger apparently never found anything. The Richardses had confirmed two fat targets near Somerss site, and a ground-penetrating radar survey later indicated other possible targets nearby. He was married to a woman named Charlotte, who was 12 years his junior. Then, learn about the forgotten black cowboys of the frontier. But theres enough there to make the case.. Follow him onTwitterandFacebook. But he has also. He renounced his outlaw lifestyle and moved to Virginia for what he hoped would be a quiet retirement. He and his gang werent modern terrorists, but what distinguishes him from all the other criminals in the 19th century is the way he would use his notoriety to promote a political cause namely, the Lost Cause of the South and the maintenance of white supremacy. By 1873, the Reconstruction Republican governor of Missouri had called for all the help he could get against Confederate guerrillas, but under the law of the time, he couldnt offer a reward from his own office. It would be a more interesting world if they were, and it would give others the courage to challenge conventional wisdom. Its been going on ever since Jesse was assassinated, Eric James says. Moved from Kentucky to Missouri, bought a farm of 270 acres there. Much of it is not definitive. Lost in the din of underground resistance activity, the outlaws of the James Gang went largely unnoticed until December 1869, when Jesse James outright murdered a bank cashier he mistook for the Union officer who had killed his old boss, Bloody Bill. After Belle died, her daughter Flossy moved to Wichita and opened the finest brothel in town. Somebody is going to study, if they havent already, [the connection] between this kind of conspiracy theory approach to history in recent decades and peoples willingness to believe that the election was stolen, for example this belief in the sensational and conspiracies and hidden hands., Getler says he admires the work of Stiles and Keehn but thinks historians search for truth doesnt cover all the ground. Im not saying everybody can go out and find a treasure like this, but Im saying that with the right mind-set and determination, the things they think are out of reach might be closer than they thought.. A James family was also granted land in Surrey by William the Conqueror. You can dismiss it outright. The James brothers were both born in Missouri, the sons of Robert and Zerelda (Cole) James. Married 14 August 1867, Kearney, Clay Co., MO, to Zerelda Amanda Mimms, born 21 July 1845, deceased 13 November 1900 - Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO aged 55 years old (Parents : John Mimms & Mary James 1809-1877) with. Research genealogy for Jesse James WESTLAKE of Locust Springs, Greene County, Tennessee, as well as other members of the WESTLAKE family, on Ancestry. He is the founder of West Coast Choppers and former partner of Austin Speed Shop and current CEO of Jesse James Firearms Unlimited, both based in Austin, Texas.He was the focus of a show chronicling some of the custom motorcycle builds in his TV series Jesse James: Monster . Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James-Younger Gang. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Jesse James WESTLAKE (1868 - 1939) . This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. Zanesville had been seized by treasure-hunting fever before. Frank and Jesse James recovered from the Northfield disaster but didnt keep much of a low profile as they continued to rob trains, stores, and the like. Frank (right) and Jesse James in 1872 The American Civil War began in 1861, when James was eighteen years old. It was the same shape as the diagrams carved on two of the beech trees. Dowling The Mimms, Woodson, James, Poore families all began in Virginia, moved to Logan County, Kentucky and then the James family moved west to Missouri, where Jesse was raised. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Joan Beamis found the Jesse James family tree among the artifacts of Mary Louisa James-Burns, Joan's grandmother. Over the next century, legends of the KGC and myths of the outlaw became entwined and endlessly embellished. Her mother was L.V. Surprisingly, the clerk had the nerve to lie and tell them that the safe was on a time lock, even though one of the robbers was holding a Bowie knife to his throat. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. They had one son: Walter Lee James. From James Boone Genealogy: "SARAH BOONE (Daughter of George & Mary Boone) was born on the Fifth Day of the Week, about H. past 11 in the Forenoon, on the 18th of February 1691-2." Sarah married Jacob Stover 15 March 1715 in Pennsylvania, Hazel Spraker, The Boone Family p. 23. If they confirm a tunnel, Im going to start hugging everyone.. Lavina Nethers, 85, lives a short drive from the dig site. All right, now the adventure begins, Getler said on the first day of the hunt as we trudged a muddy half-mile across a field and through the woods to the site of the suspected treasure trove. One day I suddenly saw a long boat carved across the trunk of the signature tree. Jesse James home in Buchanan County, where he was killed. KGC historian Keehn disagrees: I never really found anything that supports the treasure-hunting thing, he told me. Years ago, when I first discovered Getler and Brewers book on cracking the KGC code, I read portions of it aloud to my eldest daughter, then age 10. Public DomainJesse James (right) poses with brother Frank James (seated) and Charles Fletcher Taylor (left); Frank is wearing a Civil War studio costume.. There was a diagram that Getler interpreted as a shaft with tunnels, and beside it was a portrait of a man with a broad brim hat and what could be a vault or a chest near where his heart should be. Both of Burrell Youngers parents were born in Kentucky, while Charlottes father was born in Missouri and her mother in Kentucky. Jesse Amos James Maternal Grandparents James Cole (1804-1827) [x] married Sallie Lindsay 1822 children Zerelda Elizabeth Jesse Richard Parents Robert Salle James (1818-1850) born Logan County, Kentucky July 17, 1818 Baptist minister graduate Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky married Zerelda Elizabeth Cole December 28, 1841 died August 1850 When I saw his name on the tree, I trembled and tears came out of my eyes, he recalled. These dupes are the price of the iconic sweater, but still as sleek as a slicked-back bun and hoops. Belle Starr - Jesse James Photo Album Belle Starr Queen of the Wild West Myra Belle Shirley, better know as Belle Starr earned her title as Queen of the Wild West. Jesse James and his brother Frank were notorous outlaws during the heyday of the American West.
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