Currently I am not aware of any of my Ford line that moved out west. Ill keep this note if I do come cross someone Ill let you know. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "D Rennow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: [Ford] Robert and Charles Ford > Do any of you know who the parents and any children of these Ford men > were? > > [Taken from a Jesse James site.] > > 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. > > 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. > > > > ==== FORD Mailing List ==== > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/FORD > Contact me if there is any trouble with this site [email protected] > Teddy > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >