Jesse’s parents, Kentucky natives, met in the summer of 1841. His father, Robert, was a student at Georgetown College. His mother, Zerelda Cole, attended a Catholic school in nearby Lexington.

Jesse W. James. The Kansas City Times, October 15, 1872 [This letter was not signed "Jesse James," but historians believe he wrote it.] As a great deal has been said in regard to the robbery which ...

On Sept. 24, 1875, the Globe-Democrat was one of several newspapers receiving a letter, supposedly from Jesse James, saying he was alive and well and visiting friends in St. Louis.

James’ tombstone reads, “Jesse W. James, Died April 3, 1882, Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” Related Content News ...

The James family was among the many slave-owning families with ties to the South in the Little Dixie region of Missouri. While Jesse, born 1847, was too young to serve as the Civil War began, by ...

The front parlor of the James Home in St. Joseph, MO where the outlaw Jesse James was fatally shot in the back of the head on April 3, 1882 by gang member Robert Ford as Jesse was straightening or ...

The letter, written by Jesse W. James on June 5, 1875, is one of more than 300 lots that will go to auction on Oct. 23 as part of Bonhams Sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts in New York.

But today the signature — “Jesse W. James 1882” — was invisible, and he didn’t have a picture from December. It had been raining. Getler fingered the moist bark.

Jesse James, according to family lore, gave the photo of himself to Will Martin’s wife, Sarah Mariah Martin Meguiar, in January of 1868.

Joyce Carol (James) Dougal, 81, of Mesa, Ariz., formerly of Altoona, passed away Jan. 13, 2024, at home with family by her side after a brief illness. She was a daughter of the late Jesse W. James ...