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- "THE JESSE JAMES-NATHAN BOONE CONNECTION" Boone family story
Added Jul 31, 2005
by Bev Gillihan
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Jesse James was born in Clay County, Mo. on September 5, 1847. He became one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. He was a Civil War guerrilla at age 15. After the war, Jesse formed a gang with his brother, Frank, and several other men. They robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. In 1876, the gang was decimated trying to rob a bank in Northfield, Minn. However, Jesse and Frank escaped. Jesse formed another gang, but soon quietly slipped out of the state and hid out in Nashville, Tenn. There he was known as Thomas Howard. Mr. Howard and his wife, Zee, had a son born to them on December 31, 1875. They named him Charlie Howard. Jesse James called him "Tim."
Mr. Howard moved his family back to Missouri. On April 3, 1882, in St. Joseph, Mo., Jesse James was shot in the back by a fellow gang member, Bob Ford, for a reward. The seven-year-old lad had not known his real name Jesse Edwards James, Jr. until after his father's death.
Jesse James, Jr. Grew up and was running a cigar stand in the lobby of the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City, Mo., when he met and married Stella Frances McGowan. They married in the parlor of her parents' home at 415 Landis Court, Kansas City, Mo., on January 24, 1900. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. S.H. Werlein of the Kansas City Methodist Church, South.
Stella and her family had only recently moved to Kansas City. She grew up on a farm with her parents, Alfred M. and Martha McGowan, near Ash Grove, Mo. Mary Boone Hosman, Stella's great- grandmother and daughter of Nathan Boone, was living in the Nathan Boone cabin at the time of the marriage.
Jesse James, Jr. and his Nathan Boone descendant bride, lived in Kansas City where he practiced law for 25 years. One of his clients would become President of the United States. His name was Harry S. Truman.
Missouri Commonwealth -- Ash Grove, Missouri -- November 24, 1994
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