Jesse Woodson JAMES

Born

5 September 1847 , Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA

Died

3 April 1882 , St Joseph, Missouri, USA

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Robert Sallee JAMES Zerelda Elizabeth COLE

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Born: 5 September 1847 in Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA

Father: Robert Sallee JAMES

Mother: Zerelda Elizabeth COLE

Paternal grandparents: John JAMES , Mary POOR

Jesse Woodson was a soldier in the U.S. Civil War.
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Jesse Woodson married Zerelda Amanda MIMMS 24 April 1874 in Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA . The couple had (at least) 5 children.
Zerelda Amanda MIMMS was born 21 July 1845 in Logan, Kentucky, USA. Zerelda Amanda died 13 November 1900 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Jesse Woodson JAMES died 3 April 1882 in St Joseph, Missouri, USA.

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Recorded occupation: Outlaw, bank robber, and murderer

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Jesse Woodson JAMES married

Zerelda Amanda MIMMS
Marriage date: 24 April 1874
Marriage place: Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA

Children of Jesse Woodson JAMES and Zerelda Amanda MIMMS

Jesse Edwards "Tim" JAMES

Born: 31 August 1875, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Died: 25 March 1951, Glendale, California, USA

Married: Stella Frances MCGOWAN 24 January 1900 Place: Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Ethel Louise JAMES

Born: abt. 1876,
Died: abt. 1893,

Montgomery JAMES

Born: 1 February 1877, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Died: abt. 1878, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Gould JAMES

Born: February 1878, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Died: abt. 1880, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Mary Susan JAMES

Born: 17 June 1879, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Died: 11 October 1935, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

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Birth — 1847
5 September 1847
Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1874 Marriage / Partner
Jesse Woodson JAMES and Zerelda Amanda MIMMS 24 April 1874, Kearney, Clay, Missouri, USA

He was 26 years old.

1875 Birth of Child
Jesse Edwards "Tim" JAMES was born 31 August 1875, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Jesse Woodson was 28 years old.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 Birth of Child
Montgomery JAMES was born 1 February 1877, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Jesse Woodson was 29 years old.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 Birth of Child
Gould JAMES was born February 1878, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Jesse Woodson was 30 years old.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1879 Birth of Child
Mary Susan JAMES was born 17 June 1879, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Jesse Woodson was 31 years old.

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

Grave

Mount Olivet Cemetery Kearney Clay County Missouri, USA

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Death — 1882
3 April 1882
St Joseph, Missouri, USA
He died at the age of 34.

1882 - April 3 - Jesse James is murdered
One of America's most famous criminals, Jesse James, is shot to death by fellow gang member Bob Ford, who betrayed James for reward money. For 16 years, Jesse and his brother, Frank, committed robberies and murders throughout the Midwest. Detective magazines and pulp novels glamorized the James gang, turning them into mythical Robin Hoods who were driven to crime by unethical landowners and bankers. In reality, Jesse James was a ruthless killer who stole only for himself. history.com

JESSE JAMES.
At St. Joseph, Mo., the great outlaw, Jesse James, was shot and killed by Robert Ford, of Richmond, Ray county. Ford found Jesse off his guard in a room ant Thirteenth and Lafayette streets, and deliberately shot him though the head, killing him instantly.

The Belleville Telescope
Belleville, Kansas
April 13, 1882

JESSE JAMES.
Additional Particulars of the Tragedy.
With a Sketch of the Life of the Dreaded Banditti.

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Oshkosh Daily Northwestern
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
April 5, 1882

1892 - Last Home of Jesse James
St. Joe was the last residence of Jesse James. He lived here quietly, having traveled a great deal formerly by rail during his life, meeting up with strangers on the cars and conversing with them briefly on current topics. Thrown among strangers as he was so much all his life, it is not strange that at the last he courted quiet and rest with complete change of scene.

He lived in St. Joe under the nom de plume of Howard, and those who were impudent to him at that time now often start up wildly in the night and shriek with terror after dreaming that Mr. Howard has returned to life in St. Joe and with a large shotgun in one hand and a John L. Sullivan ultimatum in the other is engaged in settling up old scores.

Mr. James lived a very uneventful life at St. Joe, and the gas man who remembers now the time when he and Mr. Howard were alone in the cellar looking at the meter, and how Mr. Howard spoke rather feelingly about the feeble veracity of the meter, and how he (the gas man)...Read full story

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Aurora Daily Express
Aurora, Illinois
April 19, 1892

FINAL RESTING PLACE