Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
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Birth5 Sep 1847, Near Centerville, Kearney Co., Missouri
Death3 Apr 1882, St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri
BurialOlivet Cemetery, Kearney Co., Missouri
OccupationOutlaw
FatherRev. Robert Sallee James (1818-1850)
MotherZerelda Elizabeth Cole (1825-1911)
Marriage24 Apr 1874, Centerville, Kearney Co., Missouri
ChildrenJesse Edward (1875-1951)
Notes for Jesse Woodson (Spouse 1)
http://www.ku.edu/heritage/families/james.html
REFERENCE: 34429 *** RELATED TO JESSE JAMES, the Outlaw *** NOTE: WEBSITE: Some Descendants of Jesse JAMES:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/James/index.html; Preparer:
NOTE: WEBSITE: Frank and Jesse James Family Outline; Descendants of William James of England; Yvonne James-Henderson ;
http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/jjames.htm
NOTE: WEBSITE: Jesse James; Special Events Photo Album - Jesse James Gang
- Jesse James Story - St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad; http://www.rosecity.net/trains/picture4.html;
- MC GOWEN, STELLA FRANCES (Wife of Jesse Edward James) Born February 27, 1882 in Oak Grove, Missouri to Alfred and Martha McGowen. Stella's genealogy includes Daniel Boone as her Great-Great Grandfather. She married Jesse Edward James January 24, 1900. They had four daughters: Lucille Martha, Josephine Francis, Jessie Estelle, and Ethel Rose. Through the years Stella took the forefront in protecting the memory of Jesse James and the James Family from impostors in the press as well as the courts.
1093 Of all the worlds' legendary characters, few have attracted world-wide fascination like the outlaw, Jesse James. Some call him America's Robin Hood, while others see him as a cold-blooded killer. Perhaps he was all of these things.
Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.
Some people say it was the cruel treatment from Union soldiers that turned Frank and Jesse to a life of crime during the Civil War. Certainly during the war years they learned to kill while riding with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson.
After the war, Jesse was wounded while surrendering. Within a year, Frank and Jesse are believe to have pulled off the first daylight bank robbery in peace time. They made off with $60,000 from the Liberty, Mo. bank not far from their home, and one man was killed.
For the next 15 years, the James boys roamed throughout the U.S. robbing trains and banks of their gold, building a legend that was to live more than a century after Jesse's death.
Jesse married his own first cousin after a nine-year courtship. She was named for his own mother, Zerelda, and he called her Zee for short. They had two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in to help catch the famous desperadoes. Once during a nighttime raid on the family home outside Kearney, Mo., a firebomb was tossed into the log cabin. When it exploded, it tore off the hand of Jesse's mother, and led to the death of his half-brother Archie.
Jesse reached his Waterloo in September, 1876, when his gang, including the Younger brothers, took on the bank at Northfield, Minn. Within minutes the town people returned fire. All except Frank and Jesse were either killed or were wounded and captured.
Frank James also married, and their wives tried to get them to take on a more normal life. With a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse moved to St. Joseph, Mo., with his family in the fall of 1881 to hide out.
On Christmas Eve, Jesse and Zee moved their family into a small house atop a high hill overlooking St. Joseph. Living under the assumed name of Tom Howard, Jesse rented the house from a city councilman for $14 a month. He attended church, but did not work for a living.
During the winter of 1882, Jesse tried to buy a small farm in Nebraska. But in April, he was short of cash. All of his earlier gang members were either dead or in prison, but Jesse recruited Bob and Charlie Ford to help him rob the Platte City bank. The Ford brothers posed as cousins of Jesse James, but actually were not related to Jesse at all.
The $10,000 reward on Jesse proved too appealing. While Jesse stood on a chair in the family home at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph to dust and straighten a picture, Bob and Charlie Ford drew their guns.
Bob Ford put and end to the James Legend with a single bullet to the back of the head on April 3, 1882.
The Ford brothers attempted to collect the reward. Instead, they were charged with murder. They were sentenced to hang, but were pardoned by Governor Tom Crittenden.
Two years later Charles Ford committed suicide and Bob Ford, the "dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard, and laid poor Jesse in his grave," was himself killed in a bar room brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892.
Jesse James was a moral paradox. He was a good father and family man, and was religious in his own way. Whether he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, or just kept it all, has never been decided.
Jesse James died in 1882, but the legend of Jesse James continues more than a century beyond his death. Today Jesse and Frank James are among the best-known Americans in the world.
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THE JESSE JAMES-NATHAN BOONE CONNECTION
Jesse James was born in Clay County, Mo. on September 5, 1847. He became one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. He was a Civil War guerrilla at age 15. After the war, Jesse formed a gang with his brother, Frank, and several other men. They robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. In 1876, the gang was decimated trying to rob a bank in Northfield, Minn. However, Jesse and Frank escaped. Jesse formed another gang, but soon quietly slipped out of the state and hid out in Nashville, Tenn. There he was known as Thomas Howard. Mr. Howard and his wife, Zee, had a son born to them on December 31, 1875. They named him Charlie Howard. Jesse James called him "Tim."
Mr. Howard moved his family back to Missouri. On April 3, 1882, in St. Joseph, Mo., Jesse James was shot in the back by a fellow gang member, Bob Ford, for a reward. The seven-year-old lad had not known his real name Jesse Edwards James, Jr. until after his father's death.
Jesse James, Jr. Grew up and was running a cigar stand in the lobby of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., when he met and married Stella Frances McGowan. They married in the parlor of her parents' home at 415 Landis Court, Kansas City, Mo., on January 24, 1900. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. S.H. Werlein of the Kansas City Methodist Church, South.
Stella and her family had only recently moved to Kansas City. She grew up on a farm with her parents, Alfred M. and Martha McGowan, near Ash Grove, Mo. Mary Boone Hosman, Stella's great- grandmother and daughter of Nathan Boone, was living in the Nathan Boone cabin at the time of the marriage.
Jesse James, Jr. and his Nathan Boone descendant bride, lived in Kansas City where he practiced law for 25 years. One of his clients would become President of the United States. His name was Harry S. Truman.
Missouri Commonwealth -- Ash Grove, Missouri -- November 24, 1994
Dedicated to the Memory of Olive Van Bibber Tafel
http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html
REFERENCE: 34429 *** RELATED TO JESSE JAMES, the Outlaw *** NOTE: WEBSITE: Some Descendants of Jesse JAMES:
http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/James/index.html; Preparer:
NOTE: WEBSITE: Frank and Jesse James Family Outline; Descendants of William James of England; Yvonne James-Henderson ;
http://www.rootsweb.com/~daisy/jjames.htm
NOTE: WEBSITE: Jesse James; Special Events Photo Album - Jesse James Gang
- Jesse James Story - St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad; http://www.rosecity.net/trains/picture4.html;
- MC GOWEN, STELLA FRANCES (Wife of Jesse Edward James) Born February 27, 1882 in Oak Grove, Missouri to Alfred and Martha McGowen. Stella's genealogy includes Daniel Boone as her Great-Great Grandfather. She married Jesse Edward James January 24, 1900. They had four daughters: Lucille Martha, Josephine Francis, Jessie Estelle, and Ethel Rose. Through the years Stella took the forefront in protecting the memory of Jesse James and the James Family from impostors in the press as well as the courts.
1093 Of all the worlds' legendary characters, few have attracted world-wide fascination like the outlaw, Jesse James. Some call him America's Robin Hood, while others see him as a cold-blooded killer. Perhaps he was all of these things.
Jesse Woodson James was born in Kearney, Missouri on September 5, 1847. His father, the Rev. Robert James, was a Baptist minister who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.
Some people say it was the cruel treatment from Union soldiers that turned Frank and Jesse to a life of crime during the Civil War. Certainly during the war years they learned to kill while riding with William Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson.
After the war, Jesse was wounded while surrendering. Within a year, Frank and Jesse are believe to have pulled off the first daylight bank robbery in peace time. They made off with $60,000 from the Liberty, Mo. bank not far from their home, and one man was killed.
For the next 15 years, the James boys roamed throughout the U.S. robbing trains and banks of their gold, building a legend that was to live more than a century after Jesse's death.
Jesse married his own first cousin after a nine-year courtship. She was named for his own mother, Zerelda, and he called her Zee for short. They had two children, Jesse Edwards and Mary.
The Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in to help catch the famous desperadoes. Once during a nighttime raid on the family home outside Kearney, Mo., a firebomb was tossed into the log cabin. When it exploded, it tore off the hand of Jesse's mother, and led to the death of his half-brother Archie.
Jesse reached his Waterloo in September, 1876, when his gang, including the Younger brothers, took on the bank at Northfield, Minn. Within minutes the town people returned fire. All except Frank and Jesse were either killed or were wounded and captured.
Frank James also married, and their wives tried to get them to take on a more normal life. With a $10,000 reward on his head, Jesse moved to St. Joseph, Mo., with his family in the fall of 1881 to hide out.
On Christmas Eve, Jesse and Zee moved their family into a small house atop a high hill overlooking St. Joseph. Living under the assumed name of Tom Howard, Jesse rented the house from a city councilman for $14 a month. He attended church, but did not work for a living.
During the winter of 1882, Jesse tried to buy a small farm in Nebraska. But in April, he was short of cash. All of his earlier gang members were either dead or in prison, but Jesse recruited Bob and Charlie Ford to help him rob the Platte City bank. The Ford brothers posed as cousins of Jesse James, but actually were not related to Jesse at all.
The $10,000 reward on Jesse proved too appealing. While Jesse stood on a chair in the family home at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph to dust and straighten a picture, Bob and Charlie Ford drew their guns.
Bob Ford put and end to the James Legend with a single bullet to the back of the head on April 3, 1882.
The Ford brothers attempted to collect the reward. Instead, they were charged with murder. They were sentenced to hang, but were pardoned by Governor Tom Crittenden.
Two years later Charles Ford committed suicide and Bob Ford, the "dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard, and laid poor Jesse in his grave," was himself killed in a bar room brawl in Creede, Colorado, in 1892.
Jesse James was a moral paradox. He was a good father and family man, and was religious in his own way. Whether he stole from the rich and gave to the poor, or just kept it all, has never been decided.
Jesse James died in 1882, but the legend of Jesse James continues more than a century beyond his death. Today Jesse and Frank James are among the best-known Americans in the world.
------------------
THE JESSE JAMES-NATHAN BOONE CONNECTION
Jesse James was born in Clay County, Mo. on September 5, 1847. He became one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. He was a Civil War guerrilla at age 15. After the war, Jesse formed a gang with his brother, Frank, and several other men. They robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. In 1876, the gang was decimated trying to rob a bank in Northfield, Minn. However, Jesse and Frank escaped. Jesse formed another gang, but soon quietly slipped out of the state and hid out in Nashville, Tenn. There he was known as Thomas Howard. Mr. Howard and his wife, Zee, had a son born to them on December 31, 1875. They named him Charlie Howard. Jesse James called him "Tim."
Mr. Howard moved his family back to Missouri. On April 3, 1882, in St. Joseph, Mo., Jesse James was shot in the back by a fellow gang member, Bob Ford, for a reward. The seven-year-old lad had not known his real name Jesse Edwards James, Jr. until after his father's death.
Jesse James, Jr. Grew up and was running a cigar stand in the lobby of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., when he met and married Stella Frances McGowan. They married in the parlor of her parents' home at 415 Landis Court, Kansas City, Mo., on January 24, 1900. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. S.H. Werlein of the Kansas City Methodist Church, South.
Stella and her family had only recently moved to Kansas City. She grew up on a farm with her parents, Alfred M. and Martha McGowan, near Ash Grove, Mo. Mary Boone Hosman, Stella's great- grandmother and daughter of Nathan Boone, was living in the Nathan Boone cabin at the time of the marriage.
Jesse James, Jr. and his Nathan Boone descendant bride, lived in Kansas City where he practiced law for 25 years. One of his clients would become President of the United States. His name was Harry S. Truman.
Missouri Commonwealth -- Ash Grove, Missouri -- November 24, 1994
Dedicated to the Memory of Olive Van Bibber Tafel
http://bgill1963.tripod.com/ourvanbibberfamilyfromindiana/id15.html