Ancestry of
Jesse James

Outlaw, Bank Robber, Murderer

Benjamin Woodson

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Jesse James — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 92 
  • Father:
  • Robert Woodson 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ferris   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1666 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY Aug 1723 
  • Death Location:
  • Henrico County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1700 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Henrico County, Virginia 
  • Child:

  Robert Woodson (Ahnentafel No:46 )

• Sources for Benjamin Woodson

  • ¹ Beamis, Joan M. and William E. Pullen, Background of a Bandit: The Ancestry of Jesse James, 2nd Edition, Unknown: Unknown (1971), 49-50.
  • ² Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 714.
  • ³ Woodson, Henry Morton, comp., Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and their Connections, Memphis, Tennessee: Henry Morton Woodson (1915), 26-27.