Hey, it just hit me- are you Bobby Gilmer Moss? My Hipp and Copeland ancestors were from Clinton, Greeneville, and Greer, S.C. as well as some Stone and Cleveland and Wyly kin. We have plenty of witnesses to Jesse living in various places in Texas and visiting friends in Tombstone, Arizona after his demise which many think was a cover to start a new life. Several who knew him before he "was shot" recognized him later. The same for Billy the Kid. John Wilkes Boot's grave has a black headed man in it, according to Unsolved Misteries folk who studied the shooting of someone called him The wounded man who recoverred with a friend's help stayed in a log cabin still standing between Iredell and Hico, Texas. I definitely do not think the FBI invented pardons and hiden identities in our lifetime. Take care, Charles Augustine Wyly Take care, Charles Wyly On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:53:21 EDT [email protected] writes: >In a message dated 9/8/99 3:12:07 AM !!!First Boot!!!, [email protected] >writes: > ><< eye witnesses said the body exhumed > in Missouri was lying face down in the coffin and the only DNA >missouri > evidence came from a tooth of jesse's buried outside his childhood >home, > not his grave and the corpse was the wrong size for Jesse >> >I watched the A & E (I think that was the station) documentary. Was >under the >impression that the exhumation took much longer because the coffin was >wooden >instead of metal as they had been told. From what I remember they did >find >damage to skull that would indicate gun shot. They also measured the >skelton >and that it was the size of Jesse. I thought the tooth was taken from >the >skull and they used mitochrondial DNA to prove that skelton was Jesse. >How >would the researchers know if a tooth found outside the old homeplace >would >even belong to Jesse or a member of the James family? Guess the next >time >they show it, I will watch more closely. Betty. > > >==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to >[email protected] if you are subscribed to the >list, >or [email protected] if you are subscribed to the >digest. >In the body of your message put only the word unsubscribe >