![]() The lady who wrote the book, Freda Cruse Hardison might also be a good source of information. You may also inquire at the Batesville Guard Newspaper office and talk with them about the property in question. I'm too old now to walk out into the woods unattended but this might be a good area to look into for some of you young bucks. ![]() Rory John so some local research at the Izard County records office might help you out. Crouch owned the land and a search of property records could lead someone to the right location. Samuels: Now were going to take him out and shoot him. Rebel or Reb Lane is to the North of the property and Boswell is to the South and in the middle is the property where the outlaws hid. Jesse Woodson James was born in Missouri on September 5, 1847. The outlaws hid out in a hilly area where present day Rebel Lane or Reb Lane and Boswell Rd. He told my daddy there was an outlaw hideout down from Calico Rock where the James and Yoounger boys would hide and buried loot from robberies. Visit the Patee House Museum and Jesse James Home website.Was reading a newly published book about Frank and Jesse James in Izard County Arkansas by Freda Cruse Hardison and she mentioned something that brought back a memory from my childhood my uncle talked about. ![]() The house was moved back to its original neighborhood and today it is located on the grounds of Patee House Museum. June 8, 1892: Robert Ford, who had settled out West in Colorado, is killed in his own saloon. October 5, 1882: Frank James surrenders to Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden. Robert Keatley purchased the James Home in 1977 and donated it to the Pony Express Historical Association. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford, who was cooperating with authorities. Most visitors to the park recognize the tank placed there to honor veterans, and for kids to play on. After robbing a stagecoach, they would take cover in this cave until the law gave up looking for them. In 1939 it was moved to the Belt Highway in St. Legend states that Jesse James and his gang used this Indian cave as a hideout when they came to Hot Springs. The James Home was originally located about two blocks north of its present location, at 1318 Lafayette Street, on a high hill overlooking Patee House. The Jesse James Museum is operated by the Pony Express Historical Association with all proceeds from admission charges going to help maintain both the James Home and Patee House Museum. Artifacts from the grave are now on display including the coffin handles, a small tie pin Jesse James was wearing the day he was killed, a bullet removed from his right lung area, and a casting of his skull, showing the bullet hole behind his right ear. The results showed a 99.7% certainty that it was Jesse James who was killed here in 1882. In 1995 forensic scientist James Starrs exhumed the outlaw's body at Kearney, Missouri, for DNA tests. We’d sit in that cave as boys and just imagine for a while. Frank and Jesse split up, with Jesse hiding out near his old home. While Jesse did not rob any banks in the state of Alabama, he is rumored to have hidden out. Along the Missouri River north of Omaha, there was a wilderness park with a forbiddingly steep slope called Devil’s Slide and near it, a great dirt cave that was rumored to have been a hideout for the James Gang at one time. James was born Jesse Woodson James on the 5th of September 1847. When the Civil War came, young Jesse watched his older brother Frank. One legend claims Jesse James robbed Huntsville's First National Bank on Sept. Today the James Home is a museum dealing with the life and death of Jesse James. Jesse was born in Clay County, Missouri, on September 5, 1847, to Zerelda and Robert James, hemp farmers who owned six slaves. Zerelda Samuel, spent the next two nights at Patee House, which was then called the World's Hotel. The James Home was originally located about two blocks north of its present location, at 1318 Lafayette Street, on a high hill overlooking Patee House. After the shooting, Jesse's wife and two children and his mother, Mrs. Jesse was shot from behind while he stood on a chair to straighten a picture in his own home. He was living with his wife and two children under the assumed name of Tom Howard at the time of his death. Jesse died at the age of 34 after living a lawless career for 16 years. He was killed by Bob Ford, a member of the James gang, to collect a $10,000 reward offered by Governor Tom Crittenden. People in Missouri were outraged at the method used to capture him and considered it a cowardly assassination. Notorious outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed in this house on April 3, 1882.
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