This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hMB.2ACI/907 Message Board Post: My fiance claims to be related to Jesse James, and I understand the Jameses lived in Clay County, Missouri. He tells me that his mother's mother was a Missourian named Daisy Grey (or Gray?) and married a James Coombs, from Maine. They were naturopaths. Daisy Grey (or Gray) was related to Jesse James's family, somehow. The story goes that one day one a member of Jesse James's clan (or gang?) showed up at Daisy and her husband's house. He begged Daisy to hide him from the law, and she refused, so he pulled a gun on her and tried to force her to hide him. Daisy's husband, hearing what was going on from the bathroom, where he was shaving and had a gun with him, came out and shot the intruder dead. Daisy and her husband then feared for their lives, having killed one of the Jesse James's clan (or gang members?) and thought they would have to go on the run, to escape them. However, the James clan did not take action against them, when they found out that Daisy was related to them, because it was not okay, within their system of ethics, to kill a family member. I'd like to find a ! newspaper story about this. Does anyone know of any Jesse James related sites where I could post this? It would most likely have occurred in the early 1900s. Daisy's mother is said to have been a full-blooded Cherokee. That's about all we know. I thought there might be a Jesse James Museum of some sort in Clay County? Thanks in advance for your help, Simone Smith HatsAndHandFans@Yahoo.Com