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From: "SpiritHawk//Martha Blocker" <>
Subject: Re: [OUTLAWS] Van Buren Argus-February 26, 1915
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:29:34 -0400
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My "claim to fame" is that a Fristoe was the mother of the Younger brothers!
We shared the same line until it split with two brothers. mdbb


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From: "Patricia Foster" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [OUTLAWS] Van Buren Argus-February 26, 1915


> Here..read about some of your kinfolk. The James boys were descent from
> our Dr. John Woodson, of Virginia, line. Dr. Woodson was one of our 9th
> great grandfathers.
>
> James boys were distant, distant cousins, but were related to us. Their
> mother was a Woodson.
>
> We sure came from a lot of famous people, some bad one too. I have
> found I seem to like the bad one best. pf
>
> Fran Warren wrote:
>
> >Van Buren Argus,
> >February 26, 1915
> >Frank James of outlaw fame, died at his home near Excelsior Springs, Mo.,
yesterday afternoon, aged 70 years. James had been in ill health for the
past four or five years, but his death was due to apoplexy. Cole Younger,
who now resides at Lees Summit, Mo., is the only member of the famous
James-Younger band of outlaws that is left.
> >
> >Frank James, shortly after his brother, Jesse, was shot and killed by Bob
Ford in his home in St. Joseph, Mo., in 1882, walked into the office of
Governor Marmaduke at Jefferson City, Mo., handed the governor his two
pistols and surrendered, thus ending the 18 years' chase the Pinkerton
detectives, federal marshals and civil officers had indulged in after these
noted and well known band robbers and murderer.
> >
> >Frank James, after his surrender, was taken to Kearney, Mo., where he was
held in jail for fully a year, charged with bank robbery and murder. he was
finally acquitted and then began his successful fight against being
extradited to Michigan, where the Younger brothers had been convicted of
murder and were serving life sentences.
> >
> >After the last charge against Frank James had been dismissed in the
Missouri courts, he, with his family, located in Nevada, Mo., where Colonel
Bronaugh, of Henry County, Missouri, had purchased and furnished a handsome
five room cottage and deed it to Frank James. After a few years residence
there, James moved to Texas, later to Oklahoma and finally to St. Louis,
where for years he was employed as ticket taker in a cheap theater.
> >Fran Alverson Warren
> >e-mail:
> >479-369-2703
> >http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/
> >
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