Monthly Archives: December 2009

Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year


I would like to wish all of you Leaf Blowers a very Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy New Year. linkscolor = “993300″; highlightscolor = “339900″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;

Look who got a new Cadillac Escalade for Christmas


  Look who got a new Cadillac Escalade for Christmas. Santa Claus sure was good to Ethan James of Knoxville, Tennessee.   Ethan is a 5th great grandson of John James (1852-1927)    of Alavardo, Texas. . John James .. George DeHoney James … John Bunyan James …. John Gregory James ….. John Christopher James …… Ethan Christopher James   And… (more…)

A CHRISTMAS WISH from Frank Younger


A CHRISTMAS WISH   by Frank Younger Once again we celebrate the festive Christmas Day With fellowship and joy and song and love. The tiny Baby Jesus in a manger full of hay, The chorus of the angels from above. There’s food and decorations, there’s Santa and his toys, And families gathered close from far and wide – Moms and pops… (more…)

Christmas Rap from the Jesse James Family


 Every year, for over a decade, Thurston James played Santa Claus to adoring infants and children who visited him at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Sherman Oaks California. He retired in 2004, eight months before he passed away. Though not offically a member of the Jesse James family, he was long regarded as such, and equally accepted by the family… (more…)

Marshall Field’s Christmas & Anna Knaff James


  Anna Emalia Knaff (1883-1954) met Frank James when she was working at Chicago’s Marshall Field’s Department Store. A fire had broken out at the Iroquois Theatre nearby. She ran into the street to assist, and met her future husband Francis Marion James (1880-1931), as he was dragging dead bodies out of the theatre. In years to come, Anna brought… (more…)

1909 Prediction for Christmas 2009


Christmas 100 years in the future will be celebrated, but the changes will be immense. Little Johnny will not covet a railroad train. The lad in the next century will want a model of the latest starship in his Christmas stocking. He will expect a working one, too, that will sail through the air like a live bird. There will… (more…)

Time for some Christmas cheer


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Midway Museum Peeps


Had dinner the other night with my peeps (board of directors) of the Midway Museum, in Woodford County, Kentucky. We set our agenda for 2010, that includes a new web site I’m charged with building. Watch for an announcement here by the end of January. We’ve planned it to be a blockbuster. At least as good as Stray Leaves, and… (more…)

Christian James attends ceremonies celebrating Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen


Christian James attended the celebration in St. Patricks Cathedral in New York City for the 30th anniversary of the death of his grand uncle Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Sheen, who is buried in a crypt beneath the main altar in St. Patrick’s, is now a candidate for sainthood.   Also attending with Christian (C) was his mother Delia Sheen-James-Hamlin, her daughter… (more…)

Death of Jesse James on History channel


      I was watching the “History Channel”  story about the death of Jesse James while having Thanksgiving dinner with a physician friend (he had taped it).  We really weren’t paying much attention until the segment about the autopsy came to the screen.  Our response together was that if the autopsy report is accurate and the photograph is accurate it would be… (more…)

Confused about my James family Connection


My Great Grandfather Albert James born 1840′s in the state of Ga. Father Joashley also born around 1810 in Ga. Claimed he was a cousin to Jesse and Frank. I know there are many stories simular to this but he said it all his life even to the point of saying they stayed in their barn one night. If anybody… (more…)

Jesse James Hidden Treasure: Laughable “science.”


It should go without saying, but the following is just my opinion: I watched the show and although some parts were fascinating, especially when it concerned the possibility that Jesse was not assassinated, the part that the so called NGS played was beyond ridiculous. It’s hard to know where to start with this silliness: We see some jokers who are… (more…)

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