Tag Archives: Lincoln

Edmond Thompson James Serves the Confederacy


The Civil War had begun to surround the old Virginia home that James Carter James once occupied at Plainview in Fauquier County, before he died in 1842. His progeny occupied the place since. Avoiding the war for the James family was impossible. On April 15, 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered 75,000 troops, authorizing the Union to launch an aggressive attack… (more…)

John William James – James Family Banker


From: Interior Journal, Stanford, Ky. March 2, 1906 Obituary of Mr. J. W. James Crab Orchard, Ky. Feb 27, — on February 25th, near the somber hour of midnight, the noble and generous spirit of J. W. James, the noblest man that ever lived in all the tide of Time, took its flight from his elegant home to a far… (more…)

Alfred H. Pence, Cousin of the James Gang, Has died


Alfred Harris Pence Sr. died September 30, 2010 at Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, Kentucky. He was a third cousin, twice removed of Bud & Donnie Pence of the James Gang. The earliest Pence family migrated as early as 1800 from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley to Lincoln County where Stanford is located. Then, Emanuel Pence bought 250 acres on Logan’s Creek from… (more…)

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