He had gone to the trouble of checking signed initials on the map against the handwriting in Howks letters in a Texas archive but Howks veracity is dismissed by historians. She died in 1889. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. With the leading experts in the field, NEHGS staff can provide assistance and guidance for questions in most research areas. Connie was born on June 6 1904, in Crabtree, Haywood, North Carolina, United States. Your grandmother L.V. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Was the bark too wet or had he even been here? The James family was from the heavily Confederate western portion of the state. T.J. Stiles, author of the groundbreaking biography Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, told me that the treasure hunters get at least one important thing right about the outlaw: He was a much more significant political figure than standard accounts portray. Sitting in her living room, she told me how her late husband, James Nethers, had been named for Jesse James and that his great-great-grandmother had regularly washed the outlaws clothes and given him a meal when he passed through the area. It referenced clues including an old shovel, a wagon iron and a wolf trap, and instructed, Drive a stake at each point until we can run the lines[;] then where the lines cross is your solution. Somers had uncovered a shovel, with the blade pointing toward the shaft, and a wagon axle, also pointing toward the shaft. Robert Sallee James was the brother of Mary James, who married John Wilson Mimms. One Fans Search for Seeds of Greatness in Bob Dylans Hometown. 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. Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . This was given to him in honor of the SALLEE family, not related, but an important family. Bersheba Leighton Fristoes parents were Richard Marshall Fristoe and Mary Polly L. Sullivan. Getler told me he tries to approach the subject as the journalist he used to be. Local law enforcement was already converging on the scene and the gang fled. The Alexander Younger group from Essex County/Halifax County, Va.; 4. The family allowed the hunt for Jesse Jamess gold to continue, on the condition that it be conducted less invasively. WHO WAS JESSE JAMES? All of the elders in my family are now deceased so there is no one left to answer questions I may have. Mary Susan James Married 6 March 1901 to Henry Lafayette Barr. 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. He died in 1850 when his son, the infamous Jesse James, was three years old. Ordanined a Minister in 1839. Contrary to his usual habit, he brought his revolvers to the table with him, suggesting he sensed trouble. His father, Robert S. James, of Welsh ancestry, was a commercial hemp farmer and Baptist minister in Kentucky, who migrated to Missouri after marriage and View Site Frank James - geni family tree The elder James then died in California in 1850, never having made the fortunes he was hoping for, and his widow took three-year-old Jesse James and his older brother Frank James back to the family farm where she remarried within a couple of years. 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.. Since most of the outlaw Younger family stayed in or around the Jackson County, Mo., area, it would be helpful to search through the Missouri county probate records, which range from 1750 through 1998. I think growing up they were ashamed to talk about their past, and the only information they shared was that we were related to the Younger outlaws who ran with Jesse James. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He took a smoke break at one of the only flat places on the hillside, a narrow ledge beside a tree shaped like a W. Somers suddenly had what he described to me as a kind of vision that featured James, wearing an oilskin duster, smoking a cigar, announcing that he would bury his biggest treasure right here. Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Jesse James Watlington (1912 - 1984) . These records have been microfilmed by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and are available free online at FamilySearch. There are 41 generations in total, divided into 3 sections as follows: Each section contains 14 generations. So there shouldn't be a whole lot of gap in between. This book was released on 1988-06 with total page 32 pages. Wikimedia CommonsJesse and Frank James in 1872. A huge manhunt was organized to catch the killers, but Frank and Jesse James ability to evade capture quickly bore their legend. Unfortunately, the surest ways to tell a trees age is to cut it down, or bore a hole into it, and count the rings. James was born on September 5, 1847 and his brother Alexander Franklin "Frank" James was born January 10, 1843. Didn't have permission. Send your questions about tracing your own roots to TracingYourRoots@theroot.com. gnalogique Dowling avec plus d'un demi-million de parents, Gould James. Mary Hines (c1755-p1810) 10. Younger was listed as 5 years old in 1910. 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. L'arbre Deceased persons are not concerned by this provision. 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. 1 of the founders of William Jewell College, Liberty, Clay Co MO. It had been raining. Starts with Abraham and lists his descendants all the way down to Jesus. My daughter was familiar with scavenger hunts, of course, and together we marveled at the possibility that more than a century ago people laid clues for anyone to find. James roamed as far north as Minnesota to rob a bank, but no deeds in Ohio have been documented. 1850s Missouri was right next to the opening act of Americas Civil War and the James family was in the thick of it. Excerpts about Grant's mother, Hannah Simpson Grant, as recorded in Early Records of Simpson Families, by Helen A. Simpson. He envisioned the outlaw as a symbol of the resistance and consequently gave James endless print space to publicize his rebellions against the Republicans. One day, she told Jesse that she wouldnt be able to wash his clothes or take care of him when he comes through again. All the evidence about him personally has to be delivered with a caveat, so that also means that hes more susceptible to revisions, and sometimes weird revisions. My disbelief was suspended as shakily as my body on the hillside. I have been able to trace my Younger ancestry back to Pauls father, Burl Younger. They even discussed how they would document the discovery, should there be one. Getler conceded that some of this could be graffiti left by lovers initials, hearts and arrows but thats how KGC treasure hieroglyphics tend to work, he said. We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. The outlaws used stolen tools to pry up part of the track, pulling it aside with rope as the train rounded a blind curve. Hello Megan, my grandfather Bill Mimms, s/o Gideon Mason Mimms, s/o Drury Shadrach Woodson Mimms, s/o Robert Mimms. 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. But any gold they dug up would be a token of something more personally priceless. Years ago, when I first discovered Getler and Brewers book on cracking the KGC code, I read portions of it aloud to my eldest daughter, then age 10. Jesse James Prater passed away on 3 January 2014 in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA. He renounced his outlaw lifestyle and moved to Virginia for what he hoped would be a quiet retirement. Getler had received similar queries and was wary. I wanted to believe there was gold in them thar hills. Mary G. "Polly" Poor (c1790-1827) 6. John M. James (c1775-1827) 5. But I also found that I was invested, too. Bowser identified him as one of her brothers, though not the one she said co-owned the property with her. Enter a grandparent's name. L.V.s father, Paul Younger, was born on Oct. 25, 1880, and died on Jan. 11, 1938. Two years later he assisted in another haul in Oklahoma, following a copy of a map with the symbol JJ and attributed to Jesse James by other treasure hunters. In March 1949, a posse of men claiming to be intimates or kin of Jesse James blew into town with a primitive land mine detector to search for $1.5 million in gold that they said was buried somewhere just to the north. A metal detector capable of penetrating 25 feet was pinging and showing large metallic targets. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, an angry man stalked onto the scene. They also found symbols similar to those cited by Howk as having been left by James. It sounds like a villainous conspiracy concocted in Hollywood except that the fiction is spiced with fact. Im not sitting here saying to people, Believe, believe, believe. It takes my own skepticism to be overcome to start feeling good about the overall picture, he says. This answer was provided in consultation with Andrew Krea, a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Without the Finley & Jesse Fry connection you have no basis for either of these well documented accounts. A DNA test brought the evidence all the way down the James family tree to Oklahoma City attorney Robert Jackson, 65, and his nephew, Mark Nikkel, 36, of Edmond. He is also co-founder ofThe Root. There were carved rabbits rabbit trails being a reference to paths leading to treasure and a pair of Js carved back-to-back, which, according to Jesse James treasure lore, depicts the outlaws initials. 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? All right, now the adventure begins, Getler said on the first day of the hunt as we trudged a muddy half-mile across a field and through the woods to the site of the suspected treasure trove. Jesse Gregory James (born April 19, 1969) is an American entrepreneur, automotive mechanic, and television personality. Using his system, in 1991, in a hilly forest in western Arkansas, he located a cache of gold and silver coins minted between 1802 and 1889, with a face value of nearly $460. 26 February 1941 - Prestonsburg, Floyd, Kentucky, USA, 3 January 2014 - Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA. He assembled a new mob which proved difficult to keep together, even for a quick-on-the-trigger killer like Jesse James, who may have murdered one of his own men to keep him from giving himself up. Jesse James natural father, Robert, was a slave-owning Baptist preacher from Kentucky who was always looking for the next big score that would make him rich. But when he heard how close Somers was to Zanesville, He was like, Ill call you back, and weve been in very close touch ever since, Somers says. 1 boy died in childhood, and the other 2 boys lived to adulthood, as did his daughter. . . As the clerk received a beating that left his skull cracked, townspeople grew suspicious of the lookouts and started a confrontation outside the bank. But theres enough there to make the case.. I raced back to the site and later reconstructed a few moments that I missed via interviews and video that I reviewed. Husband: Jesse Woodson JAMES died at age: 34 Born: 5-Sep-1847 near Centerville, Kearney, MO Died: 3-Apr-1882 in St Joseph, BuchananCo, MO Buried: 1882 in Olivet Cemetery, Kearney, MO Father:. Howk presented no evidence beyond his colorful yarns, but he had joined the treasure hunt in Zanesville in 1949. Charged with murder and swiftly convicted, both men were sentenced to death by hanging. Bloody Bill led the James boys and his unit in the now-infamous raid on Centralia where they killed several unarmed civilians and collected their scalps. Somers commenced digging. Robert was born about 1819 in Kentucky. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. The Marcus Younger group from Essex/Halifax County, Va.; As more individuals get tested, the DNA signatures will be updated. [2], Note by Lilly Martin, Aug 18, 2018: Robert Sallee James had 4 children: 3 boys and 1 girl. In 2003, Simon & Schuster published their book Shadow of the Sentinel (retitled Rebel Gold for the paperback) with 21 pages of endnotes, about the quest to crack the code of KGC treasure. Ordanined a Minister in 1839. 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. Jesse had 15 siblings: Mattie Love Medford (born James), Joel Brackenridge "Brack" James and 13 other siblings. Robert James married Zerilda E Cole on 28 Dec 1841 in Scott, Kentucky, United States [1] Sometime after their marriage, the marriage record was amended with the words father and mother of Jesse James and Frank James. Providence Baptist Church, Clay Co MO. We also found Paul and Fannie Younger living in Benton, Yazoo County, Miss., when the 1920 U.S. Federal Census was enumerated. Treasure hunting maintains its grip on American culture, with at least two dozen reality shows over the past decade devoted to finding everything from the Holy Grail to the riches of the Knights Templar, according to the database IMDb.com. Lawrence Henry Barr & Thelma Duncan 4. Lavina Nethers, 85, lives a short drive from the dig site. After that, Im one step closer to believing its here, and if its not, Ill eat my words.. [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. I am trying to find my N.American Indigenous roots. We may earn a commission from links on this page. 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. Finally, we recommend that you turn to the Younger DNA Project, which began in December 2007. contains thousands of pictures and GeneaStars. The Northfield Bank robbery went down on September 7, 1876. Its too wet.. If so, a Confederate Depository was indicated at the site where Somers started digging his shaft. He came to be seen as a noble Robin Hood who was so slick he may have faked his own death. Wikimedia Commons; colorized by Matt Loughrey.