Ancestry of
Jesse James

Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer

John M. James

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• • Grandfather of Jesse James — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • William James 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hines   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1775 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1827 
  • Death Location:
  • Logan County, Kentucky 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary G. "Polly" Poor
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Mar 1807 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Goochland County, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary James

  Robert Sallee James (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  Thomas Martin James

• Sources for John M. James

  • ¹ The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Missouri Volume, New York, Chicago, et. al.: United States Biographical Publishing Company (1878), 772.
  • ² Beamis, Joan M. and William E. Pullen, Background of a Bandit: The Ancestry of Jesse James, 2nd Edition, Unknown: Unknown (1971), 6-9, 30.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Robert S. James", (accessed 02/07/2013).