Category Archives: Tombstone

Visiting the Second Great Grandparents of Frank & Jesse James in Cole Cemetery


  In 1754 at the age of 24, John Cole signed a lease with Hancock Lee for 150 acres of land on the north side of Horsepen Run, adjoining the plantation of John Herndon in King George County, Virginia. In 1775 and 1776, Lee’s son Willis Lee entered Virginia’s District of Kentucky and encamped at the spring named Lee’s Big… (more…)

When a Younger Rode to Defeat Arizona-style Nativism


Born in Liberty, Missouri, Charles Bruce Younger Sr. was only twenty-three when he took a stab at killing the political campaign of his older cousin, Fontaine Talbott Fox. Their cousins in the future Younger Gang were yet in their teens. Fox was a politically savvy old codger. Already in his fifties, he had been a lawyer, judge, and attorney general… (more…)

New Leaf – James D. Peterson


James D. Peterson – JD51P@aol.com – has provided these new images of the grave site of his great grandparents Mary Harriet James & Daniel J. Owens. Another image of the tombstone of his grandparents William Andrew “Willie” Owens & Centennial Adkins. And a third image of his mother Mary Magdeline “Maggie” Owens, who was formerly mis-identified as Margaret Owens. Also,… (more…)

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