Person:Jesse James (17)

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Jesse Woodson James
b.5 Sep 1847 Clay County, Missouri
d.3 Apr 1882 Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
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m. 28 Dec 1841
  1. Alexander Franklin James1843 - 1915
  2. Frank James1843 - 1915
  3. Robert R. James1845 - 1845
  4. Jesse Woodson James1847 - 1882
  5. Susan Lavenia James1849 - 1889
Spouse and Children
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m. 24 Apr 1874
  1. Jesse Edwards James1875 - 1951
  2. Montgomery James1878 - 1878
  3. Gould James1878 - 1878
  4. Mary Susan James1879 - 1935
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Jesse Woodson James
Gender Male
Birth[1] 5 Sep 1847 Clay County, Missouri
Marriage 24 Apr 1874 Missouri(they were 1st cousins)
to Zerelda Amanda Mims
Death[1] 3 Apr 1882 Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri
Burial[1] Mount Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, Clay County, Missouri
Reference Number? Q213626?


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Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang. Raised in the "Little Dixie" area of Western Missouri, James and his family maintained strong Southern sympathies. He and his brother Frank James joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as "bushwhackers" operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of committing atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre in 1864.

After the war, as members of various gangs of outlaws, Jesse and Frank robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest, gaining national fame and often popular sympathy despite the brutality of their crimes. The James brothers were most active as members of their own gang from about 1866 until 1876, when as a result of their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, several members of the gang were captured or killed. They continued in crime for several years afterward, recruiting new members, but came under increasing pressure from law enforcement seeking to bring them to justice. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert Ford, a new recruit to the gang who hoped to collect a reward on James's head and a promised amnesty for his previous crimes. Already a celebrity in life, James became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his death.

Popular portrayals of James as an embodiment of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, are a case of romantic revisionism as there is no evidence his gang shared any loot from their robberies with anyone outside their network. Scholars and historians have characterized James as one of many criminals inspired by the regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the Civil War, rather than as a manifestation of alleged economic justice or of frontier lawlessness. James continues to be one of the most famous figures from the era, and his life has been dramatized and memorialized numerous times.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Jesse James, in Find A Grave.

    Reburial; originally buried in the front yard of the family farm under an elaborate monument.

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