Each Member's genealogy is stored in a separate tree. 1883; Crump, Jesse Procter, 1867- 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. 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. This was around the same time and place where author Mark Twain would later set his picturesque novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, though there wasnt a lot of whitewashing and river rafting going on in the James family. This answer was provided in consultation with Andrew Krea, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Jesse James joined up with these outlaws, too, in 1864 at just 16 under the leadership of Bloody Bill Anderson. He savored my addition to the story. Younger, born on Dec. 8, 1904. I felt as though a spell had been broken. A bit of bullion would be nice, of course. After his death she married a third time to Dr. Reuben Samuel in 1855 when Frank was 13 years old. Add my notes please: Graduated Georgetown College, KY, June 1843 . Jesse Woodson James married Zerelda Amanda Mimms, a cousin, April 24, 1874 in Kearney, Clay, Missouri. 1 boy died in childhood, and the other 2 boys lived to adulthood, as did his daughter. I wasnt ready to trust the map, but Getlers and Somerss interpretation revealed how they approached the code breaking. One day about four years ago, they found an old portrait at a yard sale that reminded them of Jesse and Frank James. How many untold stories are out there? he says. All of the elders in my family are now deceased so there is no one left to answer questions I may have. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each . Gideon Mimms, my great grandfather, was a first cousin of Mrs. Jesse James. It would add a missing chapter to American history and would raise the question of what became of the secret network. I think we can all agree that we need a little hope right now, he told me on the phone, before I went to Ohio. We know of at least one possible black connection to the James-Younger gang: John Trammell. Had the diary pages not been burned, he says, Abraham Lincolns killers may have found a vast treasure of gold, and the Union may well have lost the Civil War.. #1. Richards, the former teacher from Michigan, and his son, Bradley, a high school freshman, were taking readings above the shaft with a deep-penetrating metal detector hooked up to a digital imaging system. He died in 1850 when his son, the infamous Jesse James, was three years old. He came to be seen as a noble Robin Hood who was so slick he may have faked his own death. But I also found that I was invested, too. Relationship with Timothy Michael Dowling (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1), Relationship with Zerelda Amanda Mimms (spouse), Browse using this individual as Sosa/Ahnentafel #1, , born 21July1845, deceased 13November1900 - Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO aged 55years old, Sources: Dowling Family Tree - Tim Dowling - rootsweb, 2001-2015 - - electronic - I51598, Marriage (with Zerelda Amanda Mimms) - Kearney, Clay Co., MO, List of all individuals in the family tree, {{ 'gw_downgraded_access_back_to_max'|translate }}, Born 5September1847 - Kearney, Clay Co., MO, Deceased 3April1882 - St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., MO, Could this be the wolf trap spoken of in the letter between Zanesville treasure hunters in 1949 or was it meaningless scrap? Getler thought the implications of Brewers experiences the existence of a powerful secret network after the Civil War could be the biggest story of his career. The way the authors described the American landscape itself as potentially being an encoded map, studded with clues that looked ordinary only to those lacking imagination and skill, was magical. Joan called her Nanna. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. In the end, the FBI said it found no gold. In the same year that the raid took place on the James farm, Frank James joined up with a guerilla organization that rode into Lawrence, Kansas, and slaughtered around 200 civilians. For the time being, though, that thing more precious than gold that each of the treasure hunters was seeking continued to elude them. . Change the spelling to SALLEE. The map is widely shared on the Internet in treasure-hunting circles, but I couldnt determine who first posted it, and Getler didnt know either. With Jesse, it was crime plus politics, Stiles says. 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. The treasure hunters also cited a letter from Howk to another participant in the 1949 Zanesville treasure search. When he recovered, outlaw Jesse James took part in a jailbreak that freed several members of his guerilla gang under leader Archie Clement. The Dowling Family Tree with over half a million relatives, Each of the trio of treasure hunters in Ohio was after something more elusive than gold. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. Left home to preach the Gospel to the gold miners in California, died about 3 weeks later there. Ordanined a Minister in 1839. 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. One day he announced to Bowser, Im going to dig Jesse Jamess gold bars out of the side of your hill.. Deceased persons are not concerned by this provision. Damn it, he said. And the sad part is, until you pull up bars of gold in Dents Run, or Ohio, or [a third active site in] New Mexico, its just, for some, a lot of hot air, or wild speculation, or some might even say a fools errand.. 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. Just one grandparent can lead you to many 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. It was a Wednesday in mid-March, the fourth day of the expedition. Here's Jesse James family tree Descendants of William James of England 1 William James 1754 - 1805 +Mary Hines 2 Mary James +Edward Lee I have sent you information I found from Ancestry.comMississippi records and other sources relating to my family tree. That bomb killed Jesse James younger half-brother who was sleeping at the time and injured his mother. But Jesse Jamess signature was still invisible. A straight skeptic might never find gold, and an overly credulous person might be faked out all the time and keep going, wanting to believe. What is it about Jesse James that triggers a sense of connection in so many, real or imagined? 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.. Clues are hiding in plain sight, mixed intentionally or coincidentally with red herrings, he said. Freda Cruse Hardison stands by the Jesse James display she created at the Calico Rock Museum MOUNTAIN VIEW A new book on Frank and Jesse James is based on 10 years of genealogy and other. Research genealogy for Jesse James Butler of New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, as well as other members of the Butler family, on Ancestry. A huge manhunt was organized to catch the killers, but Frank and Jesse James ability to evade capture quickly bore their legend. Hes got his teeth around the leg of this thing and he just wont let it go, Robert Whitcomb, Getlers former editor at the Herald Tribune, told me. The Geralds were said to be Mulatto, but I am unsure of where their white ancestry would have come from. I have been able to trace my Younger ancestry back to Pauls father, Burl Younger. A descendant of Emperor Tang (1675-1646 BC), his family tree contains millions of descents and today is in the 83rd generation. So far, the findings seemed promising. Some of it was lost or stolen in the chaos, and the case remains a mystery. (Getler is the son of the late Michael Getler, who was a deputy managing editor and ombudsman at The Washington Post.) Circa 1864. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to . As the track hoe operator prepared to fell a dead tree and position the machine for the final assault on the treasure, Somers reached into the dirt at the base of the tree and found a T-shaped piece of metal. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. By 1882, James was living with the last two members of his gang who hadnt run off or died, Charley and Robert Ford. Moved from Kentucky to Missouri, bought a farm of 270 acres there. Hickman wrote History of Jackson County, Missouriin 1920. 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. But any gold they dug up would be a token of something more personally priceless. Henry Washington Youngers parents were Charles Lee Cole Younger and Sarah Sullivan Purcell. 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. Jesse James had two full siblings: his older brother, Alexander Franklin "Frank", and a younger sister, Susan Lavenia James. And he wanted to know why. Somers scrutinized faint hand-lettering at the top of the map that appeared to say Battle Site. He noticed the stem of the letter B was detached from the curves, which could make it 13. And attle was written in such a way that could be read as oHio. Rather than Battle Site, did it say 13 Ohio Site, with 13 coinciding with the plat number of the property? And I say that to him all the time.. 1. [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. To the Ford brothers shock, they were actually arrested when they dragged James body in to claim the reward. I lost my footing and started to slide, but the rope saved me from rolling 70 feet to a creek below or crashing into the trunks of pines and beeches that towered over the slope. 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 Discover the meaning and history behind your last name and get a sense of identity and discover who you are and where you come from. Whether we found gold or not, we were plunging deep into American mythologies of one sort or another: outlaw legends, fables of rebellion, beguiling notions of hidden historical hands operating behind the scenes. But theres enough there to make the case.. These dupes are the price of the iconic sweater, but still as sleek as a slicked-back bun and hoops. Moved from Kentucky to Missouri, bought a farm of 270 acres there. On April 3, 1882, the morning of a planned robbery, Jesse James got up and ate breakfast. 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. The sentries shot into the air to clear the street, which soon turned into a gunfight. And thanks to reality TV, its not going to stop in the near future or the next 100 years. He adds: The funny part about it is, all the James descendants would love for the treasure hunters to find the gold, because then we could claim the inheritance! Simpson family genealogy as well. "The Frank and Jesse James Family Outline" Descendants of William James of England 1 William James b.1754-d.1805 + Mary Hines . 2 Mary James + Edward Lee . 2 Richard James + Mary G. Poor . 2 John M. James b.1775-d.1827 + Polly Poor b.1790-d.1827 . 3 Mary James b.1809-d.1877 + John Mimms By days end, the track hoe finally reached the site. 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. Wikimedia Commons; colorized by Matt LoughreyA colorized portrait of a young Jesse James. 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. Mother A James family was also granted land in Surrey by William the Conqueror. 1850s Missouri was right next to the opening act of Americas Civil War and the James family was in the thick of it. Perhaps it is fitting that the mythic idea of Jesse James as a gunslinging frontier vigilante should represent the imaginary idea of the American Frontier as depicted in Hollywood. The notorious gunslinger had been a Confederate guerrilla during the Civil War before turning to robbing banks and trains. It would lift him out of poverty and allow him to provide for his family and friends, but he knew gold could also be a curse. These records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and are available free online at FamilySearch. One day, she told Jesse that she wouldnt be able to wash his clothes or take care of him when he comes through again. The fighting between pro and anti-slavery forces lasted 12 years in a period known as Bleeding Kansas, until the end of the war. We next found Burl Younger (spelled Burrell) in the 1880 U.S. Federal Census, living in Benton, Yazoo County, Miss. After his bull-riding days in his 20s, he fell on hard times. When he needed money, he suspended digging to remodel houses or cut firewood. Self published by the author, 1954. After that, Allan Pinkerton himself led the manhunt, the climax of which was a raid at the James farm that intentionally turned into a sneak arson attack when the Pinkertons threw a firebomb through the window. 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. Geneastars | Facebook. According to Britannica.com, John Younger died in a shootout in 1874. Jesse was showy, daring to the point of recklessness, and had a thirst for fame that would eventually be his downfall. Bradley tethered himself to a tree to run the machine on the unforgiving incline. Lawrence Henry Barr & Thelma Duncan 4. Jesse james family tree descendants. Circa 1864. 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. The difficulty with this, of course, is that some of the Younger family members were trying to stay off the grid, so to speak, and not be enumerated by the federal government. A portrait of Jesse James wearing a suit. An illustration that depicts that grisly death of Jesse James at the hands of his criminal collaborator, Robert Ford.