Frank James Retirement
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Re: Frank James Retirement
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Posted: 17 Feb 2009 5:42AM GMT |
Classification: Query
There is a Frank James Sr. buried in Richardson Cemetery Lawrence Co. Tn. Feb. 6, 1836 - June 22, 1915.Someone wrote article in a Lawrence Co. Tn. Book just out that Frank James married Martha C.C. White d/o D.H. & Milley J. White she was only 15 and took TB and died shortly after they married.They had a son Robert who died young.After Martha died he married Elizabeth Jane Williams d/o Wm. F. & Sarah C.McMasters Williams.Frank and Elizabeth married April 1, 1875 Lawrence Co. Tn.Was said that Frank lived in isolated section of Lawrence Co. at Flat Rock near Mockerson Creek. Also not far away just across the Al./Tn. in Lauderdale CoAll. in the Bluewater Cem.is a grave with the name Jesse James Dec. 5, 1840 - Dec. 6, 1891.In another cem. in Lauderdale Co. Al. is Joshua James 1808 - Jan. 26, 1881 Hill Cem.h/o Esther James 1806 - July 11, 1881 Hill Cem. does anyone know of these people? Could this be the real James boys and had others to act as them while they lived here in peace?Some say that Jesse wasn't really killed by his cousin that it was staged.????? I was told by my great aunt who is in abt. 90 years now,that her grandfather who lived in Prospect Tn. He said we were related to the James boys.I have found no proof of this but her grand father was Raymond Newton"NEWT"Brown who married Lizzie Barnes.Newt told her as a child that the James gang spent the night in his or his fathers barn in Prospect Tn. near Elkmont Al.Have no way of proving any of this except my Aunt is still living and she remembers this being told to her as a child.All these places/towns are not very far apart by way the crow flys.The James robbed the Muscle Shoals mail carrier and rode toward Tn. which would more than likely been Savannah Tn. or Lawrence Co. Tn.Also was told by other relatives that one of the James boys rode up to their house in Limestone Co. Al. a few miles from Lauderdale Co. AL. and asked for a dipper of water.He drank water at the well and rode off without any problems.No proof except by word of mouth.It seems that it is possible since all these places are all connected.