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Representing the family of Frank & Jesse James, The James Preservation Trust was contacted about participating in a segment of Deadliest Warriors, produced by Spike TV. The program pits Al Capone against Jesse James. The interview with Eric James, president of the Trust, identified several hurdles that prevented the James family from participating in the show.
Strike one for Spike TV.
Spike previously shot itself in the foot with the James family. Formerly in another program, Spike TV advertised that motorcycle celebrity Jesse Gregory James, aka Jesse James, was a direct descendant of the outlaw Jesse James. Although the Trust has a standing invitation to the celebrity to produce his genealogy and a DNA test, Jesse Gregory James has produced nothing more than his fraudulent claim. In the view of the James family, the celebrity is a con man. And anyone who supports the fraudulent claim of Jesse Gregory James promotes fraud.
Strike two for Spike TV.
When pitching Deadliest Warriors to the Trust, the agent for Spike TV assured the Trust all efforts would be employed to maintain weapons and historical authenticity. As example, the pitchman then cited Jesse’s use of a Bowie knife and hangman’s noose. In fact, nothing in the historical record identifies Jesse James as using a Bowie knife or hangman’s noose, although a noose was used on Jesse’s step-father by Union soldiers as Jesse himself witnessed.
Strike three for Spike TV.
As compensation, Spike TV offered only per diem and travel expenses, but no compensation. As a professional member of the entertainment unions, Eric James expected to be compensated for his work and the family’s own expertise. Spike TV replied, “Most everyone we use is just happy to be on television. That’s payment enough.” To which James asked, “Do you expect Jesse James would rob a bank if there wasn’t any money in it?”
James points out that Spike TV struck out big time in pitting Al Capone against Jesse James. “If the Colt revolver was to be pitted against the Thompson machine gun,” James says, “why not pit Jesse against a member of his own family who actually used a machine gun to rob trains and banks?”
The reference James makes is to James Francis “Jimmy” Keating, a mobster of the Capone era who was an associate of George “Machine Gun” Kelly. Keating was from St. Paul, Minnesota. He robbed banks and trains throughout the Midwest down to Sherman, Texas, where Jesse’ sister lived. Keating’s son married Eleanor James, one of Jesse’s distant cousins.
Spike TV’s match-up between Capone and Jesse James has struck average video reviewers as a stretch. Apparently, Spike TV delivered exactly how much it was ready to pay for.
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VIDEO of the Clay County Board of Commissioners bestowing honor upon our James colleague & friend Charlies Broomfield. Recognition begins at 2:00 min. mark.
Congratulations Charlie!!
We have hints from the Clay County Archives in charge of James Farm in Kearney, Missouri, that a road leading to the farm will be renamed Charles Broomfield Rd. Charlie was a Clay County Commissioner who took an active role in arranging the sale and transfer of James Farm from the James family to Clay County.
Cant say that I understand the significance of this.
Do you have the address of Jesse & Frank James Cabin in Paseo Robles, California?
SLAVE TRADERS AMONG OUR JAMES FAMILY . . . For a decade Stray Leaves has been researching this most distressing discovery. Finally, it’s time to bring this story to light. There’s much to report. The entire story will take time to tell. As we begin, we are also compelled to reconcile what this history means for us. More specifically for those who are now known to descend from these slave traders, whom it can be assumed never knew of this element of their ancestry, but also for the James family as a whole. The resolution will not come easy.
Forks of the Road Slave Market – Violence In Silence
ericjames.org
“Just at the Forks, where the Washington and Kingston, or Palatine roads converge, stood a low squatty frame building used during the winter monthsI ran a DNA test on all the James names I could find in these stories and didn't get 1 DNA match. My DNA is closer to Jesse than that James line is. I am looking into it being through Robert Thomason (step grandfather of Jesse Woodson James) and Julia Ann Singleton (Aunt to Jesse Woodson James).
I am a descendant of Betty G Woodson.
Waterproof, La in Tensas Parish to be more exact.
Tensas Parish. J. G. James and M. Kerrigan.
The King family. Descendants of Viking slayers. archive.org/stream/Kingswood/Kingswood%20reduced_djvu.txt
"In the middle of 1864, Captain Jason W. James was on scouting duty in the southern part of Madison Parish. About eight o'clock one morning he and his company arrived at the Plantation home of Hr. Joshua James on Roundaway Bayou, who also owned the Ione Plantation in Tensas Parish." You will have to read the rest. I am not posting it here. 😲 😲 😲 sites.rootsweb.com/~lamadiso/articles/ward/chap05.htm
And I do believe this James line is connected to Lucille Ball.
And speaking of slave traders. Nicholas Trammell is mixed in with the Carrigans somehow. www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/trammell-nicholas
And I am a descendant of Elizabeth Woodson Thomas. Wife of Captain Edmund King.
I am also showing DNA matches to the James grandparents of Jesse Woodson James and all 8 of his great grandparents. This is what I need help figuring out. All of my James DNA matches will be in the replies to this comment. In this screenshot they are all the white ones
The sons of Colonial Edmund King.
I am a descendant of Mary Joicy who was widow Woodson, mother of Elizabeth Woodson Thomas.
By the way I am not a Kerrigan by DNA. I am a Carrigan. Civil War name change. Descendant of William Michael Carrigan and Nancy Holt. Nancy Holt was the daughter of Michael Holt III and Rachel Rainey. youtu.be/IsK2eSTVW8A
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When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it’s been deleted.Where does Lucille Ball fit?
FIND-A-GRAVE BLUNDERS LEAVE JAMES FAMILY HOWLING . . . Can you spot the errata in this Find a Grave post for the grandfather of Frank & Jesse James? The most glaring deception is the photograph!
History tells us the photograph was invented about the time John M. James was dying. Neither history, nor the administrator of this posting, Charlotte Raley McConaha, can tell us is how photographic technology made its way from France to the distant American frontier to take a photo of John M. James, months before his demise.
Another imprecise miscalculation in this post is the attribution of the middle name “Martin” to John M. James. The name never has been proved by evidence. To guess the name is unreliable and wrong.