MEN of the Jesse James Family

Gallery of historic photos from primary sources within the family of Frank & Jesse James, highlighting the James men directly related to the legendary brothers. A great resource for making image comparisons with claimed Jesse James photos. for grasping the actual genetic physical characteristics of the James family, or for identifying the physical differentiation among various lines of the Jesse James family.

[@StevenOsburnHollywood]

My great grandfather, William Hensley, died in 1969. His mother was the first cousin of Jesse James’ mom. They were all born in West Plains, MO., including my grandma, Ola Mae Haff.

[@dks13827]

My Dad born in West Plains in 1927. Stephens Family.

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

I have childhood friends (Mother, daughter, Son and their daughter) that I was raised with who are biolgical family members of the James family. I would like to point out that the few I know are the most humble people I have ever got to know. Very respectful and really fun to be around. I miss them loads as they moved back near Dallas Texas. Chris had become one of my martial arts students after I came back from the national team. He works as a accountant today and Holly works as a x ray technician at a hospital. I cannot believe I found your videos at all, What a honor and blessing this is, thank you so much for the uploads

[@EricFJames]

You'll find a lot more on our website Stray Leaves. There's a very large searchable database that includes all the known and documented relatives of the Jesse James family. You might even find your childhood friends there.

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

@@EricFJames .... I will for sure check out the website and let the few James family members know since we speak periodically and they are on social media as well about the website if they do not already. I appreciate this kindly.

[@brittanysegrest5]

Oh my goodness that's my family! 😊💜

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

@@brittanysegrest5 ... Who are you in relation to Chris & Holly ? I would know who you are is the reason. There is two other people that I am familiar with that known both since we were all 14 to 16 years old as well who went to the same church youth group & highschool also. .

[@supportyourtroopsathletes6460]

@@brittanysegrest5 ... I just asked Holly's & chris best friend from childhood who is even more familiar with them knowing them for a few years even before me and I told her your name, she is a bit confused also. I will call them up later this evening though. We have known them both for over 23 years and both attended the wedding back in our early life.

[@melissabryan2348]

Hi, Cousin. Jesse is my GG Paternal Grandfather. Love and Hugs always. Merry and Happy everything. Holding you and our family close and forever in my heart.

[@user-gq1fp4pz9o]

Really is your grandfather?

[@lpsfudge6386]

He's my uncle!!!!

[@melissabryan2348]

@@user-gq1fp4pz9o Yes, he is.

[@melissabryan2348]

@@lpsfudge6386 Hey, Cousin!

[@lpsfudge6386]

@@melissabryan2348 hey what's up!

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

Apparently there was an Indiana line of the James family, as well as the famous Missouri line. My great grandfather passed away at 99 in the 2000s, and was a James (his surname) from the Indiana line. Kearny, MO is exactly due west of where my great-grandpa's family settled in Indiana. He died when I was getting out of h.s., and was as lucid and clear in the mind as could be til his dying day. We have a photo of him in the 1920's with my great-grandmother and grandmother. He was a spitting image of Jesse James in certain facial features (Jesse had sharper cheek bones) around the same age. This photo of Jesse James in particular. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/james-life-and-death-jesse-james/ If anyone is curious, I will take a photo of the photo I have of my great-grandpa and email it to you.

[@speshul7525]

The nose is the trademark for many early pictures. Later becoming more refined. Fascinating

[@EricFJames]

The noses of Frank & Jesse James, and Jesse Edwards James Jr., in particular, reflect their genetic physical inheritance from their mother Zerelda Elizabeth Cole and the Cole ancestral family. Going back in James ancestry from their father Rev. Robert Sallee James and among other James lines of the family, the genetic physical inheritance of the nose is more graceful and aquiline. This hereditary nose is particularly evident in their royal ancestry, in particular King James and King Edward "Longshanks." You raise a good point. On our Stray Leaves website, we should probably do a feature story on this. Back in 2013, we did one such article on the James family's hereditary ear formation. ericjames.org/wordpress/2013/04/22/attention-james-family-send-me-your-ears/

[@dks13827]

Eric, do you think the Jesse death photo looks like him ?

[@EricFJames]

It doesn't look like him. It is him.

[@20alphabet]

Jesse and Frank were friends of our family back in Kansas. They did good by us and will always be remembered as good men.

[@b80-s9i]

Same goes for my great grandmother. She sat next to Jesse on a long trip and he was the "sweetest, kindest man" she had traveled with...he was sweet on her and ggma said she knew, and loved it!

[@magnacartasamadams8189]

They were good men they were not thieves they were fighting A-war But for them the war never ended and my opinion as a long lost descendant of Jesse James the war is still waging today

[@JesusIsKingAndSavior]

@@magnacartasamadams8189 Lord, isn't it still going. The Confederates got a bum wrap in the historical revision of things. I'm no apologize for slavery as an institution by nature or belief, but people forget there wasn't John Deere in the way we know of it now, back then, and not all slave owners were sadists. Considering the time, some slaves were likely in a better position than wage slaves now. That sounds like I'm being an apologize, but rather, it's to not judge a previous era by today's standards. As is mentioned in other accounts written of them, Frank would recite Shakespeare and these people would of known more about the human condition and human nobility than any SJW or "progressive" of today. Push a person of noble belief too far and into a corner and they will bring down the wrath of fury on their enemies.

[@TheGuitarReb]

@@magnacartasamadams8189 We are a band of brothers and faithful to the Cause!

[@dks13827]

Good men ? Murderous men.

[@kayleemaelavae9822]

Do you have more info on the Edward Perry James? My family was from the MO area.

[@larryhutton8776]

My grandmother named my dad and uncle, they were twins, Frank and Jessie after the James brothers, because they used to stop at the family farm for water and food sometimes..

[@user-gq1fp4pz9o]

Everybody here is related with him

[@bloodyslayer3580]

I'm related to Jessie I'm his great great cousin

[@xdxdxdxd1643]

Jessie is my Great Great uncle.

[@dominickpetersen6066]

Also my distant cousin as well

[@josephbragg5020]

Maybe you can tell me about Andrew Jackson James.

[@melissabryan2348]

@@xdxdxdxd1643 He is my GG Paternal Grandfather.

[@EricFJames]

@@josephbragg5020 Visit our web site, Stray Leaves. www.ericjames.org/AndrewJacksonJames/index.html

[@danielburks]

I have always been a big supporter of the James boys one of my favorite outlaws I wish I was born back in those days I would love to meet them

[@rebelhorse1882]

Great video thx for sharing!

[@josephbragg5020]

Does anyone have any info on Andrew Jackson James I bought a tintype of him I believe and also one of Jesse ,this video just told me who I have I am honored to have them In my possession since I have held interest in Jesse since I was a kid reading my dad's old west magazines of the early 60s To think that Jesse not only owned them but also held them in his hands.this is a great piece of history.

[@theAWSOME1O1]

Thanks, I found out I was releated to him by geneolgy

[@bumblebeeonthewall8523]

Same, but we have an old family tree book and he was written down as a distant relative

[@bethsagebergstrom885]

DNA says I am too.

[@gbgdev1858]

wow that’s crazy cause he is a distant cousin of mine. im on the Woodson side. My great grannpaw and my grandpaw and my mother are Woodsons

[@bladeserrated]

I don’t know where to go for this but my family thinks that Jesse James and his gang would go to my grandfathers father and mother for a hide out and would stay there for a few days then go move somewhere else and get a new home and help Jesse and others such as the dalton gang

[@miltonroberts7948]

There are a lot of stories around that Quantrill and his men would sometimes winter around my hometown of Sherman, Texas. The former guerrilla who was the inspiration for the character "Josey Wales" was living in Sherman. On his return from a "business" trip to Dallas he was shot in the back around Van Alstyne by another former guerrilla, for the reward money.

[@dianephillips8879]

I agree & later on the authorities got their proof that this happened & Jesse lived to be 103. Barlow was shot by Jesse James cousin, Bob Ford.

[@CodyKatastrophic]

jesse is actually my 9th cousin 5 times removed. taking photos of him and men in my family (myself included) its almost scary to see the resemblance

[@littleweasel4728]

I come in on the Thomas Jefferson James line. Mary Arvazinna James, I believe was also a Surratt. Whom I believed married a Rev. Riley James, whom was involved in the Indian removal act.

[@merlindeg7605]

my family are from Pembrokeshire, Wales...my late father used to call Jesse, cousin Jesse...there is a family resemblence, anyone on here know if his forebears are from Wales?

[@EricFJames]

Through royal ancestry, the Jesse James line of James reaches back to Caernarvon, Wales in the era of Edward I. The popular myth that they come from Pembrokeshire, Wales has never been proved, even by official genealogists resident in Pembrokeshire. Numerous James lines from Pembrokeshire all have DNA profiles that differ distinctly and significantly from that y-chromosome DNA of the men of the Jesse James family. The term "cousin, Jesse" has been widely popularized throughout the post Civil War era by folklore. The term coming to mean sympathy with the Southern cause more so than any direct kinship with Jesse James. Literally, thousands of claims of kinship with Jesse James have been made, but not proved. The Story of our James and their European origins first appeared on our family website almost 25 years ago: www.ericjames.org/James_European_Origins.html We continue to research, write, and report our genealogy and history on our website Stray Leaves: ericjames.org/wordpress/

[@merlindeg7605]

@@EricFJames Thank you Eric for your prompt and courteous reply. I will have a look at the attached link. I wish you and your family, well. Regards Keir James

[@franmellor9843]

Have just read he is descended from Welsh and English ancestry

[@melissabryan2348]

I do. That is the story that we have too.

[@bloodyslayer3580]

Next time don't forget the burlums

[@kayleemaelavae9822]

My dad's dad was named James Edward Perry. My dad was James Lee Perry. My dad told me we were of relation.

[@timsterrett2417]

Jesse James the bike builder has features that compare to some pictures of the past,it would be great if he has his family tree showing his bloodline that ties in with the outlaw.

[@EricFJames]

The bike builder/con artist already has been disproved.

[@timsterrett2417]

Eric F. James thanks for your reply on bike builder Jesse, that was interesting to know,what a great job you are doing for us history buffs.

[@EricFJames]

Sorry, I meant to add an info link from our web site on the topic.. www.ericjames.org/Jesse%20G%20James/index.html

[@timsterrett2417]

Eric F. James Thanks,that's awsome.

[@miltonroberts7948]

There was also a Texas politician from the Houston area named Jesse James.

[@robincoffman6723]

Where is Jesse James s son Jesse Jr ?????????? I know he lived to father 3 daughters

[@EricFJames]

Forest Lawn Memorial Park , Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA PLOT Eventide, Map 1, Lot 3231, Space 1

[@melissabryan2348]

They are in CA., but only one Son, Son’s Wife and Children are in Chatsworth, CA.

[@melissabryan2348]

He also bore my Grandfather, Hugh Elgin (Clark), the alias my line was born under; James.

[@saignez]

Rest in peace jesse

[@dks13827]

Rot in hell, Jesse, you murdered dozens of innocent people and took their money.

[@viridian.vertigo]

I have a picture of my great great grandfather with a man named David Daniel James

[@Artic_Liam]

I want to be apart of the familly more than anything… And i can se Jesse’s face in all of them

[@braydondavis4948]

I am his cousin through America Adams

[@sammymann4040]

4ms separate me

[@laineylee2920]

I believe you

[@laineylee2920]

He won't reply to us real James, he is a fraud

[@Matt-kg3ge]

I don't see any resemblances of the man who they said was Jessie James that lived to be 103 .

[@laineylee2920]

I do

[@user-qc7hr4my7r]

Funny that motorcycle builder Jesse James won't submit anything to prove he's related to the outlaw but still claims he is.

[@EricFJames]

Not funny at all. Identity theft is serious. When you are a con artist, a fraud, and guilty of it, you hide. www.ericjames.org/Jesse%20G%20James/index.html

[@user-qc7hr4my7r]

+Eric F. James I take it there's nothing you can do legally about it. Anyways thanks for the link and I enjoyed reading the information you have on the outlaw. I'm in northern Indiana and plan on making my way down to Missouri some time to check out the Jesse James historical sites down there.

[@EricFJames]

Before Missouri, you have Jesse James family history in your own backyard. Goodland, Indiana was found by a James cousin. You'll find a chapter about him and Goodland in my book Jesse James Soul Liberty, Vol. I. As for the wanna-be, there are a lot more like him out there. www.ericjames.org/Joseph_McJames_in_Goodland.html

[@user-qc7hr4my7r]

+Eric F. James Thanks, enjoyed the article and Goodland is 2 hours from me. It's unbelievable how far the James family can be traced back and all the information there is on your family. Wish I could say the same about my family tree. I have one more question and I haven't watched the video in awhile by the History channel when Jesse's grave was opened up in 1995 so my facts might be off. I think it said his skull didn't have an exit wound from being shot but there's a hole in the wall supposedly from the bullet, is that right?

[@EricFJames]

Aside from the circus created by the 1995 exhumation, the family stands in the belief the bullet entered the rear of his head and exited at the eye. No bullet is known to be retrieved.

[@deborahcross3426]

Both Jesse James and his wife Zerelda “Zee” are my 2nd cousins 4x removed.

[@frankgullett5696]

Hello cousin my famly the Woolsey and Willis came from clay county. Missouri as well from. Greenup county Kentucky and Hunington west Virginia. Ever heard of Howard Woodson Woolsey my great grandfather. Ifthats his real name i know things of our famly history handed down to me i have strawberry blond hair thin lips and about. 5ft 6 in.tall also Morgan county Kentucky the Gullett. We ate al related and i have blue. Eyes. My full name is Edward Franklin. Gullett. My grampa. Nanew is Edward Vincent Woolsey. His son. Name James Edward. And i live in Shelton Washington. Mason County

[@lpsfudge6386]

I'm apart of the Jesse James family he's my uncle and the thumbnail looks identical to my cousin now!

[@carolalexander1429]

❤

[@cskinner6564]

Nice pics but his death is more then strange 4 why would 1 who lives by the gun remove it from himself around Anyone.

[@EricFJames]

Do you wear your gun in your home all the time?

[@cskinner6564]

@@EricFJames Even in my home 4 that's some times can be the most dangerous place.Just the way i 👀 it.Friends can change at Any time.

[@dwaynenicely1629]

Hello to the James Family very well respected folk's. Daniel James the uncle of Jesse James had a daughter Elizabeth James. She married Anthony Nicely Summerset Country Pennsylvania. Elizabeth James Nicely was Jesse's first cousin. The entire James Gang came to the Nicely home often they even worked in the family store when hiding out. The locals had no idea Jesse James was very well liked and connect. Jesse James is one of Americas Greatest Heroes. He took on the evil Railroaders & Bankers... He stoled from the rich and gave to the poor. 2 Nicely Brothers the sons of Elizabeth James Nicely and Anthony Nicely. Robbed and killed a man named Herman Umberger. They both hanged. They both never admitted to killing the man. I believe they would have had they done it. Also something fish about a boy named Cain Nicely... Cain moved away charged his name to Cain Morrel.

[@dwaynenicely1629]

I tracked Jesse James and family to California in the U.S Census found all of them. Living near Jesse Father. I new Jesse James was never killed by Bob Ford.

[@mbiat1234]

Jesse James has fantasied me for years ... he has formed a mental image of something that is not present .... why !! was it brad bitts portrait as a romantic power of imagination, or is it a natural instinctive curiosity of my own ... i have never been to the USA, nonetheless perhaps not tomorrow or the next day yet when I do .. I hope the grave they say is [after 4 thousand miles ish his... and that franks is not to so far that both can still plan their shenanigans... Can't figure it out: do you want to be like me or do you want to BE me?

[@speshul7525]

And eyes

[@westcarter3862]

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