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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1847 - 1882 (34 years)
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| Name |
Jesse Woodson JAMES |
| Born |
5 Sep 1847 |
Kearney, Clay County, Missouri  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FamilySearch ID |
LHR8-7K6 |
| _UID |
C21A3B28E25D41DC9CA1FBF6EF9A3BB23F6E |
| Died |
3 Apr 1882 |
St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri |
| Person ID |
I30842 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
10 Nov 2024 |
| Father |
Rev. Robert Sallee JAMES, b. 17 Jul 1818, Lickskillet, Logan County, Kentucky , d. 18 Aug 1850, Placerville, El Dorado County, California (Age 32 years) |
| Mother |
Zerelda Elizabeth COLE, b. 29 Jan 1825, Black Horse Tavern, Midway, Woodford, Kentucky , d. 10 Feb 1911, on train to Calif, near Oklahoma City, OK. (Age 86 years) |
| Married |
28 Dec 1841 |
Stamping Ground, Scott, Kentucky |
| Family ID |
F14366 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Zerelda Amanda "Zee" MIMMS, b. 21 Jul 1845, Logan, Shelby, Kentucky, United States , d. 13 Nov 1900, Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States (Age 55 years) |
| Married |
24 Apr 1874 |
Kearney, Clay County, Missouri |
| Children |
| | 1. Jesse Edwards JAMES, b. 31 Aug 1875, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee , d. 26 Mar 1951, Los Angeles County, California (Age 75 years) |
| | 2. Ethel Louise JAMES, b. 20 Aug 1876, Pigeon Roost, Humphreys County, Tennessee , d. 6 Feb 1893, Douglas, Coffee County, Georgia (Age 16 years) |
| | 3. Montgomery JAMES, b. 1878, Humphreys County, Tennessee , d. 1878, Humphreys County, Tennessee (Age 0 years) |
| | 4. Gould JAMES, b. Feb 1878, Humphreys County, Tennessee , d. Feb 1878, Humphreys County, Tennessee (Age ~ 0 years) |
| | 5. Mary Susan JAMES, b. 17 Jul 1879, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee , d. 11 Oct 1935, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri (Age 56 years) |
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| Last Modified |
4 Dec 2021 |
| Family ID |
F14368 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Dr. Samuels (step father) and his mother Zerelda lived in a neighborhood of Northern sympathizers, of course Dr. Samuels and Zerelda were Southern sympathizers, which lead to cruelty towards their family. Dr. Samuels was hung up three times because he did not know the whereabout of Quantrell's band. Jesse was in the fields working at this time. The Militia went to the fields and whipped Jesse up and down the rows of corn and then took him to the barn where they were torturing his step-father. The Militia then went to the house and confronted Mrs. Samuels (Mrs. Robert James) at gun point. They then took Mrs. Samuels and her daughter to jail at St. Joseph and imprisoned them for 25 days. Jesse James decided after this incident that he would not allow the militia, lawmen, or anyone else to treat him that way again. It is no wonder that Jesse joined the Quantrell's gang after his family was beaten, imprisoned, tortured, persecuted at every turn and driven from home.
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. 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.
Despite popular portrayals of James as an embodiment of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, this is a case of romantic revisionism since there is absolutely no evidence that he or 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.
American Civil War (WIKI)
James as a young man
After a series of campaigns and battles between conventional armies in 1861, guerrilla warfare gripped Missouri, waged between secessionist "bushwhackers" and Union forces which largely consisted of local militias known as "jayhawkers". A bitter conflict ensued, resulting in an escalating cycle of atrocities committed by both sides. Confederate guerrillas murdered civilian Unionists, executed prisoners, and scalped the dead. The Union presence enforced martial law with raids on homes, arrests of civilians, summary executions, and banishment of Confederate sympathizers from the state.
The James– Samuel family sided with the Confederates at the outbreak of war. Frank James joined a local company recruited for the secessionist Drew Lobbs Army, and fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in August 1861. He fell ill and returned home soon afterward. In 1863, he was identified as a member of a guerrilla squad that operated in Clay County. In May of that year, a Union militia company raided the James– Samuel farm looking for Frank's group. They tortured Reuben Samuel by briefly hanging him from a tree. According to legend, they lashed young Jesse.
Quantrill's Raiders
Frank James eluded capture and was believed to have joined the guerrilla organization led by William C. Quantrill known as Quantrill's Raiders. It is thought that he took part in the notorious massacre of some two hundred men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas, a center of abolitionists. Frank followed Quantrill to Sherman, Texas, over the winter of 1863– 1864. In the spring he returned in a squad commanded by Fletch Taylor. After they arrived in Clay County, 16-year-old Jesse James joined his brother in Taylor's group.
Taylor was severely wounded in the summer of 1864, losing his right arm to a shotgun blast. The James brothers then joined the bushwhacker group led by William "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Jesse suffered a serious wound to the chest that summer. The Clay County provost marshal reported that both Frank and Jesse James took part in the Centralia Massacre in September, in which guerrillas stopped a train carrying unarmed Union soldiers returning home from duty and killed or wounded some 22 of them; the guerrillas scalped and dismembered some of the dead. The guerrillas also ambushed and defeated a pursuing regiment of Major A. V. E. Johnson's Union troops, killing all who tried to surrender, who numbered more than 100. Frank later identified Jesse as a member of the band who had fatally shot Major Johnson.
As a result of the James brothers' activities, Union military authorities forced their family to leave Clay County. Though ordered to move South beyond Union lines, they moved north across the nearby state border into Nebraska Territory.
After "Bloody Bill" Anderson was killed in an ambush in October, the James brothers separated. Frank followed Quantrill into Kentucky, while Jesse went to Texas under the command of Archie Clement, one of Anderson's lieutenants. He is known to have returned to Missouri in the spring. At the age of 17, Jesse suffered the second of two life-threatening chest wounds when he was shot while trying to surrender after they ran into a Union cavalry patrol near Lexington, Missouri.
Author - James H Carney III related to Jesse 3rd cousin, 4 times removed.
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