"The Kansas City Times" (Missouri) Friday, February 19, 1915 THE DEATH OF FRANK JAMES. Kearney, Mo., Feb. 18. --- Frank JAMES died at the old SAMUELS home, three miles from Kearney, at 3:40 o'clock this afternoon, following a final stroke of apoplexy at 10 o'clock this morning. He was 73 years old. He had been ill all winter, suffering a first stroke last November. The funeral will be held Saturday with burial in the family lot here, beside the graves of his mother, Mrs. Zerelda SAMUELS, and his 8-years-old half-brother, Archie, who was killed by a bomb tossed into the SAMUELS home by Pinkerton detectives searching for the JAMES brothers. The body of Jesse JAMES, which now rests under the sod of the SAMUELS farm yard, probably will be disinterred and buried with the rest of the family. Mr. JAMES is survived by his wife, Mrs. Anna JAMES, 62 years old; his son, Robert, who lives on a part of the old place; a half-brother, John SAMUELS of Excelsior Springs; two half-sisters: Mrs. Fannie HALL of Kearney and Mrs. Sarah Louisa NICHOLSON, who lives on a part of the old farm; a nephew, Jesse JAMES, Jr., of Kansas City and three nieces, one of whom, Mrs. Mary S. BARR, lives on the old place. Frank JAMES owned all but six acres of the old SAMUELS farm, bequeathed him by his mother at her death, which occurred on a train between Chickasha and Oklahoma City, Ok., in 1911. Mrs. SAMUELS was returning to Clay County from a visit with Frank at his farm nine miles northwest of Fletcher, Ok. Frank JAMES rented the Oklahoma farm shortly afterwards and returned to the old home to live the year around, but continued to own the Oklahoma property. ====================================================== (I have no connection with this family.) johnobrien@kc.rr.com ======================================================