Earlier I had called Scott Aker, head of horticulture and education at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, for a briefing on the age of trees. According to their later account, James had made a few inappropriate comments and overtures toward their sister, Martha, not to mention the fact that there was a hefty $5,000 bounty on James head dead or alive. One of these, the Northfield Bank in Minnesota, would mark the turning point in the fortunes of Frank and Jesse James. This answer was provided in consultation with Andrew Krea, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Its members included the famous Old West outlaw Jesse James and his brother, Frank; Thomas Coleman Cole Younger (born in Jackson County, Mo., on Jan. 15, 1844; died March 12, 1916; married to Myra Shirley, aka Belle Starr); James Hardin Jim Younger (born in Jackson County, Mo., on Jan. 15, 1848; died Oct. 19, 1902); John Harrison Younger (born in Jackson County, Mo., in 1851; died March 17, 1874); and Robert Ewing Bob Younger (born in Jackson County, Mo., on Oct. 29, 1853; died Sept. 16, 1889). It would be a more interesting world if they were, and it would give others the courage to challenge conventional wisdom. In 1904 Paul Younger married Fannie Gerald, and the two were living with their young children in Yazoo County, Miss., in 1910 when the U.S. census was enumerated. 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. Circa 1864. 1 boy died in childhood, and the other 2 boys lived to adulthood, as did his daughter. I was pulling for Somers, Getler and Richards to be right about all this, despite what the historians said. Perry Samuel was born 1865, was born into slavery, and was alive as of 1900. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. The risk of confirmation bias fitting the signs to a desired meaning seemed enormous. Circa 1864. James Cole (1804-1827) 7. Somers saw the treasure hunt in the largest possible terms. After the war, the KGC seemed to melt away, possibly splintering into pro-South successor groups or joining the Ku Klux Klan. Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. The predictable, tortured conclusion of these shows is nearly always the same: no treasure so it must still be out there. Public DomainJesse James (right) poses with brother Frank James (seated) and Charles Fletcher Taylor (left); Frank is wearing a Civil War studio costume.. But treasure narratives have infinite powers of regeneration. During the war, they filled the ranks of Confederate forces. You can dismiss it outright. They worked on the road all day, filling the forest with the grinding sound of human intervention. Somers began excavating by hand, crawling into tunnels and voids. 1883; Crump, Jesse Procter, 1867- Probate records show that at his death he owned six slaves and was a commercial hemp farmer. 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. What is it about Jesse James that triggers a sense of connection in so many, real or imagined? The operators assistant identified it as a portion of an animal trap. Genealogies of the Families of the Presidents, by Henry Buchanan. Mother Left home to preach the Gospel to the gold miners in California[4], died about 3 weeks later there. But when Clement was later killed, Jesse James took over the gang and led several daring bank robberies including one in Richmond, Missouri, that saw the towns mayor killed. He brought it into the field with him every day as he scoured the territory for the kinds of markers and symbols that the authors described. The prophet Samuel invites Jesse and his family to a sacrificial feast, but Jesse only brings his seven oldest sons, including Eliab, Abinadab, and Shammah; all seven were rejected by God as king ( 1 Samuel 16:6-10 ). The challenge in such a conspiratorial climate is to distinguish truth from speculation: Whats the difference between secret knowledge that guides you to a pot of gold and, say, the signs that lead you to suspect that a presidential election was stolen, or that a deadly virus is fake news? Jesse James Prater passed away on 3 January 2014 in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA. 2. I have sent you information I found from Ancestry.comMississippi records and other sources relating to my family tree. He envisioned the outlaw as a symbol of the resistance and consequently gave James endless print space to publicize his rebellions against the Republicans. We are all related! Getler hired a local equipment operator who began carving a switchback path that would allow his track hoe to descend the steep grade to the dig site. She got to keep the farm and they got their money.. 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. Robert is 17 degrees from Jennifer Aniston, 18 degrees from Drew Barrymore, 18 degrees from Candice Bergen, 23 degrees from Alexandre Dumas, 16 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 29 degrees from Whitney Houston, 16 degrees from Hayley Mills, 17 degrees from Liza Minnelli, 14 degrees from Lisa Presley, 18 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland, 15 degrees from Bill Veeck and 23 degrees from Brian Nash on our single family tree. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each . Robert Sallee James (1818-1850) 3. Brewer taught himself to read telltale signs left in trees and rocks such as hearts, turtles and turkey tracks and to follow lines of buried clues for miles through the hills and woods. I wanted to believe there was gold in them thar hills. Simpson family genealogy as well. In 1998, an international team began tracing and reviewing more than 450 global branches. A portrait of Jesse James wearing a suit. An ex-Confederate guerilla whose exploits set the pace for the wild decades to come, outlaw Jesse James was a romantic figure in the years after his early death as he was likened to a kind of American Robin Hood. . How many untold stories are out there? he says. Research genealogy for Jesse James Wright of Wortham, Freestone, Texas, as well as other members of the Wright family, on Ancestry. Getler, 61, a former reporter with the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal and other publications, was a senior writer for Discovery Communications in the late 1990s when he started researching the history. That bomb killed Jesse James younger half-brother who was sleeping at the time and injured his mother. KGC historian Keehn disagrees: I never really found anything that supports the treasure-hunting thing, he told me. 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. Circa 1864. We know of at least one possible black connection to the James-Younger gang: John Trammell. Jesse Woodson James was born in Missouri on September 5, 1847. contains thousands of pictures and GeneaStars. Excerpts about Grant's mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, as recorded in Early Records of Simpson Families, by Helen A. Simpson. By searching American history websites, we found that the Younger family was from Jackson County, Mo.,and the outlaws were four of the 14 children born to Henry Washington Younger and Bersheba Leighton Fristoe. Jesse Woodson James, born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, was the son of Kentucky native Zerelda Cole James and her husband, Robert James, a Baptist minister and. Wikimedia CommonsJesse and Frank James in 1872. 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. The troops hoisted him by the neck with a noose tossed over a branch until he passed out, and also allegedly tied up the 16-year-old Jesse James and gave him a lashing despite the fact that he hadnt been involved in any of the raids up to that point. That day, Missouris governor issued a pardon for both men and saw to it that they got their reward. Then, learn about the forgotten black cowboys of the frontier. Say what you will about tree carvings and treasure maps; its harder to argue with metal detectors. [2], Note by Lilly Martin, Aug 18, 2018: Robert Sallee James had 4 children: 3 boys and 1 girl. From the bottom of my heart, I cant wish him more luck and every good tiding, he says. The James family home in Clay County, Missouri. He said these offered some of the most promising evidence that this could be a treasure site. Jesse James: The Confederate Avenger Who Became An American Folk Hero. Have you taken a DNA test? Later I called Eric James, in Danville, Ky., who runs a Jesse James family website and genealogical database dedicated to documenting the family tree back to Colonial Virginia and correcting what he considers myths about the outlaw. I sat with him on the ground and contemplated the carvings, wondering if the discoveries to come would confirm the story he thought the trees told. Results of my tree-measuring test: ambiguous. I am proud of the name, for Alexander the Great was a bold robber, and Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte.. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. An illustration by Donald Jay, dated 1882, depicting a train robbery by Jesse James and his gang. Somers couldnt help remarking that for all the fancy technology and theories that had been brought to bear, they were still digging right where, in his vision, Jesse James had told him to dig in the first place. Staff researchers Alice Crites, Magda Jean-Louis, Jennifer Jenkins, Monika Mathur and Razzan Nakhlawi contributed to this story. The 1850 census shows the family. Mary Susan James & Henry Lafayette Barr 3. 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. One day I suddenly saw a long boat carved across the trunk of the signature tree. He explored the forest, looking for a place to dig. The risk of confirmation bias fitting the signs to a desired meaning seemed enormous. Jesse James, son of a Baptist minister, was born at the family home in 1847. Jesse James, however, couldnt stay away from crime. 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.. Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . It sounds like a villainous conspiracy concocted in Hollywood except that the fiction is spiced with fact. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. After that, Im one step closer to believing its here, and if its not, Ill eat my words.. Also, Cyril Edward Cain compiled Four Centuries on the Pascagoula in 1983, and W.Z. Their children were Alice, 6, Richard, 2, and Daniel, 1. The treasure hunters, says Stiles, leap ahead of the evidence when they extend Jamess political program to include burying gold to support a Confederate resurrection or some other mysterious power grab. Following the. You can search individual genealogies from the Advanced Search page by choosing a particular tree from the Trees pop up menu. The overall result of a well-sourced shared tree can be much more complete and accurate than individual trees. These records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and are available free online at FamilySearch. 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 At one point he had made it down 30 feet I saw a picture of him down there and stood on what he thought could be the concrete top of a vault. Today, the James-KGC-gold connection forms an active subculture within treasure-hunting culture, spawning books like Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure and TV movies like Jesse James Hidden Treasure.. Its suggestive. [But] belief is also an important part of the tool kit., If you dont have that, you cant keep going, Getler agreed. We have to decipher things on our own. You can search all the genealogies using either the quick search box to the left, or from the Advanced Search page. Connie Robertson-Butler, Meet the Outlaw Youngers, and a Possible Black Associate. . Jesse takes the stage with his eight sons in 1 Samuel 16-17. Zerelda Elizabeth Cole (1825-1911) 3rd Generation 4. Jesse James and his brother Frank served for the Confederate Army before embarking on criminal careers in the Old West. The next day began with two omens, one hopeful, one not so much. He was going to prove that Jesse James had been in Ohio, Bowser told me. Jesse James wrote himself as the titular leader of an eight-man posse called the James-Younger Gang, which consisted of Cole Younger and his brothers John, Jim, and Bob, and other former Confederates. You can use the other siblings who were not on the run from the law (and therefore may have actually entered a probate with the county) to search for a will or administrative papers. 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. The FBI found Dorothys stolen ruby slippers. The James brothers were both born in Missouri, the sons of Robert and Zerelda (Cole) James. Pinkerton later denied burning the house down on purpose, though research a century later turned up a letter in which Pinkerton bragged about what he planned to do. Research genealogy for Jesse James Greene of Hancock, Tennessee, USA, as well as other members of the Greene family, on Ancestry. 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. Enter a grandparent's name. In 1989 the Jackson County Genealogical Society produced The History of Jackson County, Missouri, which is an excellent source to search for more information. Frank James seemed to have reformed. In the 1950s, a man dug for gold there for years. Note by Lilly Martin Aug 2018: Born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, Jesse Woodson James was the son of Kentucky native Zerelda Cole James and her husband, Robert James, a Baptist minister and slave-owning hemp farmer who assisted in founding William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Birth xx xxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxSpartanburg, South Carolina, USA No publicly available family members 25People1Record1Source Contact Tree Owner Jesse James Jesse Jamesfrom tree Kelly Jones Lathrop Lewis Archive File 2 Record information. Wikimedia Commons; colorized by Matt Loughrey. Brewer, whod retired from a Navy career including combat service in Vietnam, believed that some elders in his extended family in the early 20th century had been sentinels guarding caches of supposed KGC gold. We strongly recommend visiting the website, learning about the privacy and testing involved, and then discovering your results as to whether your Younger family is related to the outlaw Younger family. 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. Ordanined a Minister in 1839. The next day, the bank was robbed. The outlaws used stolen tools to pry up part of the track, pulling it aside with rope as the train rounded a blind curve. Masters degree in 1847. Each Member's genealogy is stored in a separate tree. Digital Public LibraryAn illustration by Donald Jay, dated 1882, depicting a train robbery by Jesse James and his gang. Local law enforcement was already converging on the scene and the gang fled. And yet, this is undoubtedly murky territory, which makes absolute proof of anything elusive. Getler conceded the devices they were using werent as sophisticated as the equipment that the FBI drew upon at Dents Run he couldnt afford that technology here but the Ohio technology had obtained readings at Dents Run consistent with the results that convinced the FBI to dig, he said. Here's Jesse James family tree . Descendants of William James of England 1 William James 1754 - 1805 +Mary Hines .. 2 Mary James +Edward Lee .. 2 Richard James+Mary G Poor .. 2 John M. James 1775 - 1827+Polly Poor 1790 - 1827 . 3 Mary James 1809 - 1877 +John Mimms 4 Robert W. Mimms 1830 -1891+Martha (Mattie)Thomason 1841 - 1919 .. 5 Robert Lilburn Mimms .. 5 Ruth Mimms 1822 - .. 5 Mary Elizabeth Mimms 1874+Frank Weir . 6 Ruth Weir . 6 Gertrude Weir . 6 William Weir .. 5 Lucy Ethel Mimms 1878 - 4 John Wilson Mimms 1831 - . +Ms. Sarilda James. He hurried me on to another elaborately carved tree where he said I would get to see Jamess signature. He is also co-founder ofThe Root. Was the bark too wet or had he even been here? Kinship of Jesse James Jesse James Outline Family Tree Samuel Outline Family Tree Woodson-Poor-Mimms Outline Family Tree John Cole Family Tree Back to Main Page We are not thieves, Jesse James reportedly wrote, we are bold robbers. Wikimedia CommonsA photograph of Dick Liddill, one of the last surviving members of the James-Younger gang. According to family lore, we are related to them. Howk presented no evidence beyond his colorful yarns, but he had joined the treasure hunt in Zanesville in 1949. Descendants of William James Rescued via Web archive By Jane Curci November 24, 2008 at 01:12:25. These raiders wound up staging wildly fraudulent elections to make Kansas a slave territory. Periodically in his spare time, he returns to KGC treasure investigations. They dont get their hands dirty in the field as an archaeologist or even treasure people, he says. Ordanined a Minister in 1839. 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. Major children and living persons must directly contact the. In addition, Somers and Getler proposed that when the map was turned to reflect the north-south direction of the creek in Ohio, the N in the locational note From Nashville could become the Z in From Zanesville.. Portrait of Frank James, Jesse James older brother. The notorious gunslinger had been a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War before turning to robbing banks and trains. Each of the trio of treasure hunters in Ohio was after something more elusive than gold. In the end, all they dug up was an empty metal box, but they told the local papers they also found carvings on trees that they interpreted as clues. 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. He was joined by Brad Richards, a retired high school history teacher from Michigan who had appeared in two seasons of the History channel series The Curse of Civil War Gold, and Warren Getler, a former journalist and longtime investigator of Confederate treasure claims who had been a consultant on Disneys 2007 treasure-hunting blockbuster National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Somers had invited Getler for his prominence in the field; Getler brought in Richards, a friend from previous historical treasure investigations. This is all great information you can use to try to connect your Younger family to the infamous Younger outlaw family. These dupes are the price of the iconic sweater, but still as sleek as a slicked-back bun and hoops.