Ancestry of
Jesse James

Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer

James Cole

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• • Grandfather of Jesse James — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Richard Cole Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Sally Yates   
  • Birth Date:
  • 8 Sep 1804 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Feb 1827 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cole Family Cemetery, Midway, Woodford, Kentucky 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Lindsay
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  • Child:

  Zerelda Elizabeth Cole (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • James apparently participated in a fight in which his brother Amos was killed in May 1827. However, the date of his death is 27 FEB 1827 on his tombstone.

• Sources for James Cole

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/11/13).
  • ² Beamis, Joan M. and William E. Pullen, Background of a Bandit: The Ancestry of Jesse James, 2nd Edition, Unknown: Unknown (1971), 58.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95.
  • ⁴ Wikipedia, "Zerelda James", (accessed 02/07/2013).