J. Frank Dalton

J. Frank Dalton
Born March 8, 1848
Goliad, Goliad County, Texas
Died August 15, 1951(1951-08-15) (aged 103)
Granbury, Hood County, Texas
Known for Impostor who claimed to be Jesse James

John Frank Dalton (March 8, 1848 – August 15, 1951)[1][2][3] was a man who, in the last few years (1948-1951) of his long life, publicly claimed to be the famous outlaw Jesse James.[4] Contrary to his claim, most historians believe that Dalton was merely a Jesse James impostor, and that the real Jesse James was killed by Robert "Bob" Ford[5] on April 3, 1882, in Jesse's rented home at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph, Missouri.

New Evidence About the True Identity of "J. Frank Dalton"

DNA research recently conducted on certain members of the Dalton family in the United States indicates that the true identity of the Jesse James impostor "J. Frank Dalton" possibly has now finally been revealed. This new evidence indicates that "J. Frank Dalton" was, surprisingly, actually a man by the same name - John Frank Dalton, Sr. - but that he was born about 1856 (instead of on March 8, 1848 in Goliad, Goliad County, Texas as is usually assumed), thus making him about 8 years younger at the time of his death than is generally believed. Being born in 1856 instead of in 1848 would make him about 95 years old at the time of his death instead of about 103 years old. This new evidence indicates that the Jesse James impostor "J. Frank Dalton" was actually John Frank Dalton, Sr. (born about 1856), the third child of David Louis Dalton (Dec. 31, 1822 - November 13, 1894) and David's third wife Nancy J. Self, daughter of Elijah Self, (1830/1832 - December 1860). David and Nancy had 4 children altogether, of whom John Frank Dalton, Sr. was the third.

Throughout his lifetime David Louis Dalton had 4 wives, namely:

(1) Kate Louisa Darby (1822 - February 13, 1901)(married in June 1845 in Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama)(Buried in Shannon Cemetery, Shannon, Lee County, Mississippi).

(2) Elizabeth McKenzie (died 1850).

(3) Nancy J. Self (married in Ripley County, Missouri on January 4, 1849.)

(4) Emily Crawford (married in Randolph County, Arkansas on February 22, 1863).

Records indicate that John Frank Dalton, Sr. (born about 1856) was married more than once, and that his first wife - named Julia Ellen Groshon - died in 1886 while giving birth to a daughter named Nancy. John Frank Dalton, Sr.'s older brother William A. Dalton's descendants' DNA has been confirmed to match the DNA of John Frank Dalton, Sr.'s son named John Frank Dalton, Jr. John Frank Dalton, Jr. (1877-1961) was born in Randolph County, Arkansas, and died in Oklahoma.

David Louis Dalton (1822-1894) was a son of William Sims Dalton (1782-1842) and Milbery (Milberry) Halford (April 1795 - August 27, 1867). William Sims Dalton died in Beeler Creek, Lawrence County, Tennessee, and his wife Milbery died in Dancy, Webster County, Mississippi. Milbery was buried in Wake Forest Cemetery in Webster County, Mississippi.

David Louis Dalton (1822-1894) was born in Maury, Lawrence County, Tennessee, and he died in Shannon, Lee County, Mississippi. He was buried in Shannon Cemetery, Shannon, Lee County, Mississippi. He had a very distinguished career, as follows:[6]

A man named John Calvin Dalton (August 28, 1858 - July 22, 1928), who was a son of Elijah Dalton (October 28, 1829 - February 26, 1906) and Grace Jane Head (August 22, 1838 - May 21, 1901) is sometimes confused with John Frank Dalton, Sr. (born about 1856) in various records. John Calvin Dalton is found in the 1860 Federal Census (in Union Township, Ripley County, Missouri, in the household of Elijah Dalton), then later in both the 1870 and 1880 Federal Censuses for Randolph County, Arkansas. John Calvin Dalton married his first wife Susannah Cornelia Poynor (December 20, 1859 - December 12, 1903) on May 10, 1877 in Ripley County, Missouri. Another of John Calvin Dalton's wives was Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Languell (née Spencer) (March 26, 1871 - July 23, 1958). John Calvin Dalton is buried in the Dalton Cemetery in Ripley County, Missouri.

Frank and Jesse James' maternal grandmother Sarah Ann Lindsay was a first cousin of John Anthony Lindsay, children of siblings Anthony Lindsay and Jesse Cole Lindsay respectively. John Anthony Lindsay, along with his wife Priscilla Ficklin and the Ficklin family were the first settlers of Powhaten, Randolph County, Arkansas (History of Randolph County). Civil War records document Frank James serving with Generals Shelby and Price in Arkansas along with John A. Lindsay providing goods and services to them.

J. Frank Dalton resided in the area, grew up with the stories, and likely met both Frank and Jesse James.

With the death of Jesse Woodson James (1882) and the subsequent death of his wife Julia Ellen Groshon during childbirth in 1886, J. Frank Dalton abandoned his children and began roaming the countryside. In the 1930s and 1940s he appeared in Independence County, Arkansas, telling tales of being Jesse James, and on other occasions he told tales of being the famous Western lawman John Franklin "Frank" Dalton (June 8, 1859 - November 27, 1887), thus earning himself a meal. By the 1940s he was in Oklahoma and Texas, where his uncle lived and he had relatives. It was in Texas that he first claimed he was the same Frank Dalton who historians believe had been killed in 1887. When it was proved that he wasn't the original Frank Dalton (1859-1887), in April, 1948 - in Lawton, Oklahom - he took up being Jesse James instead.

Dalton was allegedly 100 years old at the time of his first public appearance as Jesse James - at Lawton, Oklahoma in April–May, 1948. Like the real Jesse James, Dalton apparently had been a pro-Confederate guerrilla in Missouri during the Civil War. However, Dalton's account of himself as Jesse James did not hold up under questioning from Jesse James' surviving relatives.[7]

Nevertheless, several people of note, such as journalist/novelist Robert Ruark,[8] were convinced that J. Frank Dalton was the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James. To many people's surprise, Dalton did appear to have many of the unique body marks/body features which the real Jesse James was rumored to have. These body features included: seven bullet wounds, a rope burn around his neck, a collapsed lung, a damaged fingertip, and severely burned feet.

On September 5, 1949, Rudi Turilli[9] and Lester B. Dill[10] (the general manager and owner, respectively, of Meramec Caverns, near Stanton, Missouri) hosted a reunion at Meramec Caverns for Dalton and his last-remaining old-time friends, in celebration of Dalton's/Jesse James' supposed 102nd birthday.[11]

J. Frank Dalton died on August 15, 1951, in Granbury, Texas, and his death certificate was recorded with the name of the man he claimed to be.[12] His gravestone in Granbury Cemetery also has that claimed identity recorded on it.

Possibility of the name "J. Frank Dalton" being an alias

Considerable evidence exists that the name "J. Frank Dalton" (in full: John Frank Dalton) was itself just an alias that this man used.[13] While a resident of the Roper Hotel in Marble Falls, Texas, in the 1940s, J. Frank Dalton claimed to be the presumed dead Frank Dalton, a U.S. Marshall for the Oklahoma Territory under Judge Isaac Charles Parker. The original Frank Dalton was the older brother to the infamous Dalton Gang members and a touring member of Wild Bill Hickok’s Wild West show. The real Frank Dalton was believed to have died Nov. 27, 1887 while in the line of duty.[14]

The strong coincidence of the name "Frank Dalton" and Jesse James' relationship to that man is at a minimum quite noteworthy since "Frank Dalton" is not a common name. The original Frank Dalton was a nephew of the Youngers from Jesse's James-Younger Gang, and he was an older brother to the four Dalton brothers of the infamous Dalton Gang and an older brother to William M. Dalton ("Bill"), co-leader of the Wild Bunch Gang. It is also notable that Frank Dalton's brother Bob boasted that he would "beat anything Jesse James ever did—rob two banks at once, in broad daylight", during which attempt two Dalton boys (including Bob) were killed in October 5, 1892. Such associations would have brought J. Frank Dalton attention, notoriety and association with the historical figure of Jesse James that he was presumably trying to otherwise avoid.

Presuming that J. Frank Dalton was Jesse James then stealing the identity of someone that might bring him unwanted attention seems foolhardy, but could have had to do with wanting to be the good guy, as Jesse James reportedly intended to change his ways while planning one last robbery around the time of his murder. It seems the Dalton boys held Jesse James in honor (as among thieves), so this theory suggests that upon being flattered by such respect Jesse assumed the identity of the most honorable and reputable of the Dalton boys, Frank Dalton. It would have been an aspiration he kept mostly to himself for 50 years since that's how long it took until J. Frank Dalton claimed to be the original Frank Dalton from whom he assumed the name.

During the heydays of J. Frank Dalton's hoax who would have believed someday DNA would be available to reveal his true identity?

What Dalton said about himself and Jesse James in The Crittenden Memoirs (1936)

In The Crittenden Memoirs (1936), a man who refers to himself as "Frank Dalton" writes in detail about the death of Jesse James, claiming that he (Dalton) was present when reporters, law enforcement officers, and locals gathered to witness the scene, and where Bob Ford confessed. Dalton demonstrates an awareness of the general lack of understanding surrounding the details of the death:

"Why was Jesse James killed? Why was it thought by many that the man killed by Bob Ford was not Jesse James? Why did Aunt Zerelda ( Jesse's mother ) at first deny that the murdered man was her boy? These things have never been told at all, or grossly misrepresented in the telling." Dalton goes on to say that he is aware of others' efforts to pose as Jesse, saying:

"Of course, Jesse has been seen alive from time to time by cheap notoriety seekers. Once a cowboy came up from the Argentine and said that Jesse was ranching and doing well down there. When this report was sifted down, it was found that the man taken for Jesse was a younger son of an English lord. A few years ago a banker in a West Texas town died, and the report was spread that he was Jesse James. More recently a fellow popped up claiming to be Jesse! How the heck do they get that way, loco weed, or what? No! Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford on the 3rd of April, 1882, in St. Joseph, Mo., there were too many people who knew him well and came to identify him for there to be any possible doubt, so that is that."[15] It is not clear whether the "Frank Dalton" of The Crittenden Memoirs and J. Frank Dalton were the same person, but the evidence and self-declared inside knowledge strongly suggest they were.

Dalton surfaces as Jesse James in his affidavit of May 19, 1948

The following affidavit (signed by J. Frank Dalton in the presence of Reece L. Russell, notary public, in Lawton, Oklahoma on April 24, 1948) appeared in full on the front page of The Lawton Constitution newspaper, issue of Wednesday, May 19, 1948:

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That I, J. Frank Dalton, being of sound mind and body, wish to state that I am the son of Robert James, a Baptist minister, and Zerelda Cole, and that I was born at Centerville, Missouri, on September 5, 1847. The town of Centerville was later changed to Kearney, Missouri, same being located and situated in the present County of Clay, the State of Missouri. I have used many different names and aliases over many years, but my real name is and always has been JESSE WOODSON JAMES. My full brother was ALEXANDER FRANK JAMES, four years older than myself. We were members of QUANTRILL'S MISSOURI IRREGULARS that fought through the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, later we became outlaws or bandits who operated over a wide area of several states.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and seal this the 24th day of April, 1948.

(Signed) J. Frank Dalton

Robert Ruark interviews Dalton in June 1949

Ever since the time of the murder on April 3, 1882, there has been a small but steady stream of witnesses and researchers who believe that Jesse James faked his death in 1882 and then adopted an alias. The majority of those who subscribe to this "murder hoax" theory believe the real murder victim was Charles "Charley" Bigelow, an undercover Pinkerton detective who was posing as Jesse James and committing robberies - thus incurring the wrath and vengeance of the real Jesse James. This theory holds that there was a "murder hoax conspiracy" involving several people (all close friends of the real Jesse James), who conspired together to murder someone, and who then all swore before the investigating officials that the murder victim was Jesse James. The goal of the conspirators was to manipulate and/or "control" the murder evidence in such a way that the law enforcement and judicial authorities involved in investigating the murder would certify that Jesse was legally dead, thus setting Jesse James free.

In 1949, J. Frank Dalton was living in a cabin on the grounds of Meramec Caverns, courtesy of Lester B. Dill who owned the caverns. In June 1949 the journalist Robert C. Ruark interviewed Dalton there, and then published some of what Dalton told him in a series of 3 newspaper articles which were published in early July 1949 in newspapers across the United States. Following is what J. Frank Dalton told Ruark concerning the Jesse James murder hoax. This information is excerpted verbatim from Ruark's article titled "Uncle Jesse Looks and Acts Like Real James" (The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 9, 1949, p. 10):

"Stanton, Mo. - The old man who looks, acts, and talks like Jesse James, and who claims, at 102 years of age, to be Jesse James, says that the man who was killed and buried as Jesse James was a fellow named Charlie Bigelow.

. . . The old man says he had him a string of runnin' horses, and two come down with distemper. 'I fetched 'em to St. Joe to isolate 'em,' he said. 'I had a house there I was not usin' for a spell - not until after some runnin' races at Excelsior Springs. This fellow Charlie Bigelow looked enough like me to be my twin, and he was huntin' a house. I told him and his wife they could use my place for a spell, until after the races, and he moved in.

One day I was out in the barn doctorin' my horses when I heard a gunshot in the house. When I heerd that gun go off I knowed it wasn't no play-party, because we argued with guns in them days. I run into the house and there was Bob Ford, standing over Bigelow with a gun in his hand and blood on the floor. I said to Ford, 'Looks like you killed him, Bob,' and Bob says, 'Looks like I did, Jesse.' Then I says, 'This is my chance, Bob. You tell 'em its me you killed. You tell my mother to say so, and you take care of that Bigelow woman. I'm long gone.'

The old man says he got on one of his horses - a good horse, a four-mile horse - and he lit out. He says he went to Kansas City to Memphis, to New Orleans, where he took a boat for Brazil. He kicked around South America for a spell and came home, and then went to Mexico. He settled later in Oklahoma, and claims to have been elected, under the name of J. Frank Dalton, to the territorial legislature. He later moved to Texas."

The Mt. Olivet Cemetery exhumation (July 17–19, 1995)

In recent years there have been a few attempts to resolve these historical mysteries and to finally get to the real truth of the matter. Unfortunately, none of these attempts have produced any evidence which can definitively resolve the issues being debated by the contending parties.

For example, on July 17–19, 1995, James E. Starrs[16] (David B. Weaver Research Professor of Law, and Professor of Forensic Sciences, at George Washington University Law School)[17] supervised the exhumation of Jesse James' purported grave in Mt. Olivet Cemetery at Kearney, Clay County, Missouri.

Here are the statements of Starrs and his colleagues on this subject, quoted verbatim from their report (page 175): ". . . We are left with three possibilities: (1) the exhumed remains are indeed those of Jesse James; (2) the exhumed remains are not Jesse James, but from another maternal relative of RJ and MN; or (3) the exhumed remains are from an unrelated individual who, by chance, happens to have the same mtDNA sequence as RJ and MN . . . Do the mtDNA results prove that the exhumed remains are those of Jesse James? The answer to this question must be no, as there is always the possibility (however remote) that the remains are from a different maternal relative of RJ and MN, or from an unrelated person with the same mtDNA sequence. However, it should be emphasized that the mtDNA results are in complete agreement with the other scientific investigations of the exhumed remains: there is no scientific basis whatsoever for doubting that the exhumed remains are those of Jesse James. The burden of proof now shifts to those who, for whatever reason, choose to still doubt the identification . . ."[18]

However, critics of the exhumation - most notably Betty Dorsett Duke (1947-2015)[19][20] - claim that the DNA samples obtained and tested by Starrs' exhumation team did not originate from the remains exhumed from the gravesite. Duke and many other critics of this exhumation have pointed out that, according to the canons of forensic science, the "chain of custody" of the actual remains which yielded the DNA samples tested by the Starrs team was not precisely known at the time of the exhumation, and, moreover, that the "chain of custody" of those remains cannot now be precisely determined or reconstructed through further investigation. Consequently, the critics of the exhumation believe that the primary conclusion the Starrs team published in their report (quoted above) cannot be relied on with any degree of confidence. Going even further, in view of all the evidence which has emerged (since the time of the exhumation) which contradicts the basic conclusion of the Starrs exhumation team, many critics of the exhumation now believe that the primary conclusion of the Starrs exhumation team (as quoted above) is simply false.[21][22][23]

The Granbury Cemetery exhumation (May 30, 2000)

Bud Hardcastle[24] - an amateur historian and used car salesman from Purcell, Oklahoma, and a long-time researcher of the Jesse James/J. Frank Dalton mystery - is one of those who (for several reasons) has been unwilling to accept the conclusions of the Starrs exhumation team. In the mid-1990s, Hardcastle joined forces with three sons of Jesse Cole James.[25] These brothers - Jessie Quanah James, Sr.,[26] Burleigh Dale James,[27] and Charles A. James[28] - all believed that Dalton was their grandfather, and that Dalton really was the famous outlaw Jesse James. J. Frank Dalton was buried in the Granbury Cemetery at Granbury, Hood County, Texas. Hardcastle and the three James brothers decided to request an exhumation order from the Hood County (Texas) Court, so they could have Dalton's remains exhumed and DNA-tested in an attempt to determine - once and for all - if Dalton really was Jesse James.

Attorneys for Hardcastle and his associates filed a request for an exhumation order with the Hood County Clerk's Office on June 14, 1996. At the exhumation hearing held in September 1996, Hood County judge Don Cleveland[29] denied their request, ruling that the attorneys had not provided him with any compelling evidence as to why he should approve the request. On July 20, 1999, Hardcastle's attorney Steven J. Reid filed a second request for an exhumation order with the Hood County Clerk's Office.[30] It appears that after filing the second request on July 20, 1999, attorney Reid filed at least one "Amended Application for Exhumation." These "amended applications" contained detailed genealogical and historical information which Hardcastle and his associates considered to be the "compelling evidence" which Judge Cleveland had stated was lacking at the time of the first exhumation hearing in September 1996. Hood County judge Linda Steen[31] approved this request at an exhumation hearing held on February 17, 2000.[32]

The exhumation of J. Frank Dalton's remains at Granbury Cemetery was conducted on May 30, 2000,[33] but unfortunately the wrong remains - the remains of William Henry Holland (1882-1927) - were exhumed. Consequently, most researchers believe that J. Frank Dalton's remains have yet to be exhumed and DNA-tested, but rumors have been circulating in the treasure-hunting and conspiracy communities that Dalton's remains were secretly exhumed - shortly after the failed public exhumation - and that DNA-testing of the remains has been completed. If this is indeed the case, the test results of Dalton's DNA analysis have never been revealed to the public.

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Dalton's birthdate has not been definitively established at this time. Some sources claim he was born on April 17, 1844 (either in or near Lexington, Kentucky - somewhere in Frankfort, Kentucky - or someplace in Scott County, Kentucky), while other sources claim he was born on March 8, 1848 at Goliad, Goliad County, Texas.
  2. ↑ Dalton contributed about 20 pages of material to The Crittenden Memoirs (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1936), a book compiled by Henry Huston Crittenden (1859-1943). The section of the book written by Dalton is titled "Outlawry - Frank Dalton's Pen Pictures" ( comprising pages 355-374 of the book). Dalton's material in The Crittenden Memoirs consists primarily of articles and letters he had written previously to 1936, most of which had already been published in various newspapers (notably in two Texas newspapers: The Gladewater Times and The Henderson Times) prior to their publication in the book. Dalton himself states, at two different places in this material (on pages 363 and 372 of the book), that he was born on March 8, 1848.
  3. ↑ Dalton applied for a Confederate veteran pension from the state of Texas. His application was filed on March 19, 1947, and it was approved on August 19, 1947. There is contradictory information on his birth date in this pension file. One letter in the file states that according to a "notice" filed with his pension application, Dalton was born in April 1844, while other paperwork in the file states Dalton was born on March 8, 1848.
  4. ↑ Jesse Woodson James (Sept. 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882)
  5. ↑ Robert Newton "Bob" Ford (Jan. 31, 1862 - June 8, 1892)
  6. ↑ See: (1) Thomas McAdory Owen - History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921, reprinted 1978), Vol. III, p. 451 (2) William B. Bynum, et al (eds.) - The Heritage of Rutherford County, North Carolina (1984) (Hunter Publishing Company), Vol. I, pp. 231-232.
  7. ↑ Walker, Dale L. Legends and Lies: Great Mysteries of the American West. New York, NY: Forge Books, 1997. pp. 87-110. ISBN 0-312-86848-0.
  8. ↑ Robert Chester Ruark, Jr. (Dec. 29, 1915 - July 1, 1965) - In 1949 Dalton was living in a cabin on the grounds of Meramec Caverns (near Stanton, Missouri), courtesy of Lester B. Dill, who owned the caverns. Ruark interviewed Dalton there, and on the basis of what he learned during the interview, Ruark wrote 3 articles about Dalton, which were published in various newspapers across the United States (published in early July 1949). It appears that each newspaper in which they were published gave the articles a different title, but the actual content of the articles was kept the same nationwide. Some of the titles of these articles are as follows: "Evidence Supports Story That Jesse James is Alive" (Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, South Carolina, July 6, 1949, p. 3), "Is Jesse James Still Alive?" (The Evening Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, July 7, 1949, p. 14), "He's Bandit - Case Airtight" (Salt Lake Tribune of Salt Lake City, Utah, July 7, 1949, p. 12), and "Uncle Jesse Looks and Acts Like Real James" (The Evening Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, July 9, 1949, p. 10).
  9. ↑ Rudolph Oswald "Rudy" Turilli (March 17, 1919 - July 19, 1972)
  10. ↑ Lester Benton Dill (Nov. 28, 1898 - Aug. 13, 1980)
  11. ↑ Rudy Turilli - I Knew Jesse James (Stanton, MO: Rudy Turilli, 1966), pp. 11-69.
  12. ↑ Texas Death Index, Name: Jesse [sic] Woodson [sic] James [sic], Date: Aug. 15, 1951, County: Hood, Cert. No.: 42235.
  13. ↑ Jesse James Was One of His Names - The Greatest Cover Up in History by the Famous Outlaw Who Lived 73 Incredible Lives (Arcadia, CA: Santa Anita Press, 1975) - by Del Schrader (1917-1982) and Jesse James III (Orvus Lee Howk) (1905-1984)
  14. ↑ "Who was that tall, bearded stranger?" - McNabb, Betty. The Highlander, November 30, 1978.
  15. ↑ The Crittenden Memoirs, pg. 363-4, http://genforum.genealogy.com/james/messages/31025.html
  16. ↑ James Edward Starrs (born July 30, 1930) - See: (1) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2QNH-T25 (2) http://www.intelius.com/search/people/James-E-Starrs/Fredericksburg-VA
  17. ↑ http://www.law.gwu.edu/james-e-starrs
  18. ↑ http://class.csueastbay.edu/faculty/gmiller/3710/DNA_PDFS/mtDNA/mtDNA_JesseJames.pdf - "Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Presumptive Remains of Jesse James," by Anne C. Stone, James E. Starrs, and Mark Stoneking, Journal of Forensic Sciences (2001), Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 173-176.
  19. ↑ http://cook-walden-davis.tributes.com/dignitymemorial/obituary/Betty-Gail-Duke-102801383 (Obituary of Betty Gail Dorsett Duke)
  20. ↑ Betty Gail Dorsett Duke (April 2, 1947 - August 29, 2015) - Author of the following books: Jesse James Lived and Died in Texas (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1998), The Truth About Jesse James (Fiddler's Green Press, rev. ed., 2008), and Jesse James - The Smoking Gun (Fiddler's Green, 2011)
  21. ↑ Betty Dorsett Duke - Fraudulent Jesse James DNA Results? (July 19, 2011) - See: http://www.jessejamesintexas.com/2Fraudulent_DNAMedia.pdf
  22. ↑ Betty Dorsett Duke - "So ... Who's Telling the Truth about Jesse James' DNA Results?" - See: http://jessewjames.wordpress.com/tag/james-e-starrs
  23. ↑ Betty Dorsett Duke - "Questionable MtDNA Reference Sources For 'Jesse James' Exhumation" (2010).
  24. ↑ Ellis Eugene "Bud" Hardcastle (born May 4, 1939)
  25. ↑ Jesse Cole James (Feb. 13, 1882 - Feb. 5, 1964) - There is some evidence that his name was originally spelled "Jessie Coal James." If his name originally was "Jessie Coal James," it is not known at this time why the spelling was changed to "Jesse Cole James."
  26. ↑ Jessie (Jesse) Quanah "Tubby" James, Sr. (Feb. 3, 1923 - Dec. 18, 2005)
  27. ↑ Burleigh (Burley) Dale James (Nov. 1, 1934 - April 16, 2005)
  28. ↑ Charles A. "Shorty" James (born on Jan. 31, 1939)
  29. ↑ Donald Gill Cleveland (born on Dec. 1, 1937) - He was Hood County judge from 1990-1998.
  30. ↑ See: http://www.co.hood.tx.us/DocumentCenter/Home/View/945 (Scroll down to page 160 of the document) - Index for Mary Burnett, Hood County Clk - Defendant Civil Docket Listing (01/01/1995 thru 12/31/2011)
  31. ↑ Linda Steen was Hood County judge from 1998-2002. Anderson Luke Rash became Hood County judge in 2003.
  32. ↑ Leland Debusk - "Is It Really Jesse James? - Judge Grants Order to Exhume Reputed Outlaw's Bones," Hood County News, On-Line Edition (Feb. 18, 2000) - See: http://www.granburydepot.org/z/biog/JamesJesseExhumationOrder.htm
  33. ↑ David Hedgpeth - "Granbury, Texas Exhumation of J. Frank Dalton" (June 6, 2000) - See: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/JESSE-JAMES/2000-06/0960312870
  34. ↑ Henry Huston Crittenden (Nov. 28, 1859 - March 3, 1943) was a son of Thomas Theodore Crittenden (Jan. 1, 1832 - May 29, 1909) (Governor of Missouri, Jan. 10, 1881 - Jan. 12, 1885) and Caroline Wheeler "Carrie" Jackson (Aug. 1, 1839 - Jan. 27, 1917). Thomas T. Crittenden was Governor of Missouri at the time Jesse James was supposedly killed on April 3, 1882. H. H. Crittenden is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Jackson County, Missouri. It should be noted that the dates recorded on his grave marker appear to be wrong, based on other documentation available about his dates of birth and death.
  35. ↑ Frank Owens Hall (Sept. 12, 1911 - Oct. 9, 1978)
  36. ↑ Lindsey Hinton Whitten (April 7, 1911 - Oct. 29, 1990)
  37. ↑ Ruth Elizabeth (Coryell) Whitten (Mrs. Lindsey H. Whitten) (Dec. 24, 1912 - Sept. 22, 2007)
  38. ↑ Phyllis Elta Argall (Sept. 17, 1909 - March 5, 1977) (aka Phyllis Argall Wills) - Her maiden name was Phyllis Elta Wardle. Phyllis was born in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, and when she was only 3 or 4 years old her mother (whose maiden name was Amy Harrington) died. Subsequently Phyllis was adopted by her aunt (Nellie Grace Harrington, 1881-1975) and uncle-in-law (Nellie's husband) Charles Boyd Kelway Argall (1882-1962) (a British-born pharmaceutical chemist and missionary), whose surname (Argall) she assumed in place of her real surname Wardle. Phyllis married Walter Raymond "Bud" Wills (June 10, 1893 - July 21, 1977) on Sept. 3, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Walter's original surname was Baranger, which he changed to Wills about 1923. Walter was cremated on July 25, 1977, and he and Phyllis are both interred in Crown Hill Cemetery at Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.
  39. ↑ Carl William Breihan, Sr. (Feb. 3, 1916 - March 3, 1998)
  40. ↑ Homer Croy (March 11, 1883 - May 24, 1965)
  41. ↑ Henry James Walker (April 5, 1908 - April 5, 1970)
  42. ↑ Orvus Lee Howk (April 27, 1905 - July 26, 1984) (aka Jesse Lee James, Jesse James III, and "the Hawk")
  43. ↑ Francena Bernice Turilli (maiden name: Francena Bernice Dill) (June 12, 1922 - April 28, 2003) was Lester Benton Dill's (1898-1980) daughter and Rudy Turilli's (1919-1972) wife.
  44. ↑ Joe Vaughn (alias Frank James) (July 1844 - Feb. 14, 1926)
  45. ↑ Columbus Vaughn (Nov. 25, 1914 - June 16, 1984)
  46. ↑ William Nelson Vaughn (April 19, 1891 - March 23, 1971)
  47. ↑ Sarah Elizabeth Snow (maiden name: Sarah Elizabeth Vaughn) (Oct. 17, 1888 - Feb. 26, 1979)
  48. ↑ James Wiley Snow (Jan. 27, 1886 - May 9, 1970)
  49. ↑ Lester Snow (Jan. 18, 1910 - Feb. 13, 1996)
  50. ↑ Delos Wayne "Del" Schrader (Jan. 17, 1917 - March 8, 1982)
  51. ↑ Ola Mae (May) Everhard (March 7, 1916 - November 27, 1988)
  52. ↑ Aubrey Maurice Everhard (April 21, 1907 - July 29, 1991)
  53. ↑ Joe Wood (Joseph S. Wood) (Feb. 10, 1914 - Dec. 3, 1996)
  54. ↑ Phillip Wayne Steele (July 20, 1934 - Nov. 8, 2007)
  55. ↑ George Lester Warfel, Jr. (March 14, 1918 - Jan. 20, 2010)
  56. ↑ Dale Lee Walker (born on August 3, 1935)
  57. ↑ Trezevant (Ted) Player Yeatman, III (Dec. 16, 1951 - Nov. 1, 2009)
  58. ↑ Ralph A. Epperson is the pen-name of Anthony Ralph Epperson (born November 1, 1937) - For the birth certificate of Anthony Ralph Epperson see: http://genealogy.az.gov/azbirth/1044/10440674.pdf
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