Dear List, Saw the below questions and had some info. Another reason the JAmes bros turned was because the north put a > cannonball thru their house and blew off their step-mothers arm. I think this may be the famous Pinkerton Incident. It was a fire bomb and was one of the first "great deeds" of Alan Pinkerton & Co., but not the Northern Army. > >Where is Jesse and Frank James body now? I know they exhumed > Jesse's body a number of years ago, but where is it now? Reinterred at Kearney. When disinterred for DNA analysis, Jesse's casket was pretty much rotted away and was not in one piece when it surfaced. DNA evidence showed that the grave was, indeed, that of Jesse James. Mt DNA evidence was used and compared to several known and documented descendants of the James brothers. Frank James is buried in Hill Park in Independence, Missouri, along with his wife and at least one of his children. The small cemetery is well kept and walled in with stone to a height of about four feet. This land was originally owned by the Hill family into which Frank married. Frank passed the later years of his life in Independence, Missouri, where he was regularly accounted for (and sometimes quoted) in the Independence Examiner. I asked one time why > people were pecking away at a certain headstone in the Kearney, Mo. cemetery. > It was Jesse James headstone. At one time it was quite large, but through the > years people and their little hameers slowly whittled it away to nothing. > Frank James(after being acquitted of all charges against him) moved > to Hot Springs, Ar. and worked at HAppy Hollow, with the stipulation, no > pics be taken. > >After that I lost track of him. The last I heard about Jesse-he > was in a lab. somewhere. Can anyone help me with this? Where are the bodies? > > It sometimes is worth reflecting on how many folks claimed to be someone else in those days when documentation was harderto come by. And, between the want of many to believe the stories and the great ability of some of the poseurs to spin credible tales, there was almost a cottage industry in the early twentieth century of men who claim to be Frank or Jesse James, Cole Younger, etc. Alas, I think we have to realize that they were mortals who died (pretty surely where they were said to have died and been buried at the time) and it is only the legends that are immortal. Regards, Phil Lindsey

Thank You for the info. I just saw a pic. of the new headstone of Jesse James. The older one was tall-and as I watched thru the years, it became nothing but a lump. Hopefully in the future-people will just look. Philip Lindsey wrote: > Dear List, > > Saw the below questions and had some info. > > Another reason the JAmes bros turned was because the north put a > > cannonball thru their house and blew off their step-mothers arm. > > I think this may be the famous Pinkerton Incident. It was a fire > bomb and was one of the first "great deeds" of Alan Pinkerton & Co., but > not the Northern Army. > > > >Where is Jesse and Frank James body now? I know they exhumed > > Jesse's body a number of years ago, but where is it now? > > Reinterred at Kearney. When disinterred for DNA analysis, Jesse's > casket was pretty much rotted away and was not in one piece when it > surfaced. DNA evidence showed that the grave was, indeed, that of Jesse > James. Mt DNA evidence was used and compared to several known and > documented descendants of the James brothers. > Frank James is buried in Hill Park in Independence, Missouri, along > with his wife and at least one of his children. The small cemetery is > well kept and walled in with stone to a height of about four feet. This > land was originally owned by the Hill family into which Frank married. > Frank passed the later years of his life in Independence, Missouri, > where he was regularly accounted for (and sometimes quoted) in the > Independence Examiner. > > I asked one time why > > people were pecking away at a certain headstone in the Kearney, Mo. > cemetery. > > It was Jesse James headstone. At one time it was quite large, but > through the > > years people and their little hameers slowly whittled it away to > nothing. > > Frank James(after being acquitted of all charges against him) moved > > to Hot Springs, Ar. and worked at HAppy Hollow, with the stipulation, > no > > pics be taken. > > >After that I lost track of him. The last I heard about Jesse-he > > was in a lab. somewhere. Can anyone help me with this? Where are the > bodies? > > > > > It sometimes is worth reflecting on how many folks claimed to be > someone else in those days when documentation was harderto come by. And, > between the want of many to believe the stories and the great ability of > some of the poseurs to spin credible tales, there was almost a cottage > industry in the early twentieth century of men who claim to be Frank or > Jesse James, Cole Younger, etc. > Alas, I think we have to realize that they were mortals who died > (pretty surely where they were said to have died and been buried at the > time) and it is only the legends that are immortal. > > Regards, > > Phil Lindsey > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB