![]() ![]() She inherited these same traits, and with her education it made her unwilling to comply with his wishes. Zerelda was of the Cole and Lindsay Families, who had been famous for their courageous deeds during the Revolutionary War. Most young men in those days had strong beliefs that a woman should be silent and not express their political thoughts. It is said, Stamping Ground Baptist Church is where they most often met.īy the time school ended in the spring of 1841 they were not speaking. ![]() Soon after they met, they started seeing each other and attended other Baptist Church functions. One girl in particular seemed to respond to his every word, and he soon found out she was Baptist. Catherine’s and tried to convert the girls. There he could see how he handled himself. In May 1840, Robert in his studies at the seminary was encouraged to attend a meeting where a group of young people of different faiths was present. While attending Georgetown College, at a church function, Robert met Zerelda Cole. He was an educator, gifted orator, and a successful farmer. So convincing as a Minister one would remember his sermons the rest of their life. All associates who knew him spoke of him as a kindly man of God. For his accomplishment, he was awarded the opportunity to present an oration at the commencement exercises. Robert is listed as having tied for third place honors in the class. According to faculty records, final examination for the senior class was taken on May 24, 1843. James graduated from Georgetown College, having completed all requirements of the four-year classical course, on June 29, 1843. (Facts obtained from the old Hendrick-Newton bible, on record at the James Museum, Kearney, MO.) The name “Mary Elizabeth” came from three sources, the names of her two older sisters, so she may always remember them, her mother, Mary and her godmother’s name, Mary Elizabeth Hendricks who raised her to adulthood. A neighbor, Mary Elizabeth Hendricks (who had lost her child one week before), breast fed the new infant girl a few weeks until she became very healthy and continued to raise her as her own until she was married. Mary Elizabeth mother, Mary (Poore) James died the following day after she was born. ![]() James (1823), Drury Woodson James (1825) Mary James (1809) m John Mimms, Elizabeth James (1816) m Tillman West, Nancy James (1830) m George Hite, Mary Elizabeth James (1827) m John R. Robert was one of nine children, five sons and four daughters. He was the son of John and Mary Poore James, both natives of Virginia, but very early settlers of Logan County, Kentucky. He died Augnear Placerville El Dorado California. Here is the story of their rise to fame, along with the sometimes-brutal facts: facts which have been concealed by legends, like a bandit’s face by a mask.įrank and Jesse James father, Robert Sallee James was born Jin Logan County Kentucky, a place called Lickskillet on the Whippoorwill Creek. Today, a century after Jesse’s murder and Frank’s surrender in 1882, they still possess that distinction. ![]() During the next two decades he, his brother Jesse, and their sidekicks, the Younger brothers, became America’s most famous outlaws. Such was the first recorded robbery committed by Frank James. James sent his compliments to Major Green, and said he would like to see him.” This is one of the rights these men are fighting for. “Three Southern Gentlemen In Search Of Their Rights-On the morning of the 6 th of August, Frank James with two other companions, stopped David Mitchell, on his road to Leavenworth, about 6 miles west of Liberty, and took from him $1.25, his pocket knife, and a pass he had from the Provost Marshal to cross the plains. The Liberty, Missouri Tribune, a pro-Union newspaper, carried the following item: They gave the nation its first peacetime bank robbery and perfected train robbing, the first was on August 7, 1863. In Missouri their birthplace is a state monument, the only one for any outlaw. They are perhaps the most famous robbers of the old West, not excluding Kentucky. Not since the days of the noted English highwayman Robin Hood and his merry men has an outlaw captured the imagination of the public, as the hard-riding, straight-shooting bank and train robbers, Frank and Jesse James and their bushwhacking band of outlaws. *** Antiqued Graphic Images by my friend Daniel Stout A History of Frank and Jesse James ** Supplemental research and additions by Michael Graves The Cole's Bad Inn Section is dedicated to his memory. ![]()
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