In what city was Jesse James living when he was shot dead?

Question

This for my little sister's HW, so no bad mouthing or complants!!!

Answer 1

Jesse James, Outlaw

Born: 5 September 1847
Birthplace: Centraville (now Kearney), Missouri
Died: 3 April 1882 (Shot to death)
Best Known As: Desperado of the old American west
Young Jesse James learned a lot about guerrilla activities during the U.S. Civil War, fighting and sabotaging the Union army in the cause of the Confederacy. After the war, Jesse formed a gang of outlaws (including his brother Frank); in 1866 they began an on-again, off-again crime spree that lasted fifteen years. They robbed banks and trains, eluding law enforcement and gaining a popular following (and mythic stature), until James was betrayed and murdered by Bob Ford, one of his gang.

James is a distant ancestor of 21st-century mechanic and TV star Jesse James.

FOUR GOOD LINKS

Wanted: Frank and Jesse James
Great links, emphasis on ancestry and descendants
Jesse James Gang
Nice little page with photos and summary
The James-Younger Gang Homepage
Tribute to the notorious criminals, with photos and bios
Granbury Visitors Bureau
Articles from the Texas town with a connection to the legend



Dictionary
Directory > People > Dictionary - People > Jesse James James, Jesse 1847–1882.

American outlaw. After fighting in the Civil War as a Confederate guerrilla, he led a group of armed brigands that for 15 years robbed banks and trains in the West. He was murdered by a member of his own gang.




Encyclopedia
Directory > People > Encyclopedia - People > Jesse James James, Jesse (Woodson), 1847–82, American outlaw, b. Clay co., Mo. At the age of 15 he joined the Confederate guerrilla band led by William Quantrill and participated in the brutal and bloody civil warfare in Kansas and Missouri. In 1866, Jesse and his brother Frank became the leaders of a band of outlaws whose trail of robberies and murders led through most of the central states. At first they robbed only banks, but in 1873 they began to rob trains. The beginning of their downfall came in 1876 when, after killing two people and failing to secure any money in an attempted bank robbery at Northfield, Minn., they lost several members of the gang, including the Younger brothers, three of their most trusted followers, who were captured and imprisoned (see Younger, Cole). The James brothers escaped and were quiet until 1879, when they robbed another train. The reward offered by Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden of Missouri for the capture of the James brothers, dead or alive, tempted one of the gang, Robert Ford, who caught Jesse (then living under the name of Thomas Howard) off guard and killed him. Frank James surrendered but was twice acquitted and lived out his life peacefully on his farm near Excelsior Springs, Mo. The melodramatic style of the exploits of the James gang attracted wide public admiration, giving rise to a number of romanticized legends, the famous song “The Ballad of Jesse James,” and much popular literature.
Bibliography

See biographies by R. Love (1926) and T. J. Stiles (2002); H. Croy, Jesse James Was My Neighbor (1949, repr. 1962); C. W. Breihan, The Complete and Authentic Life of Jesse James (1953, repr. 1970); J. L. James, Jesse James and the Lost Cause (1961); W. A. Settle, Jesse James Was His Name (1966).



History
Directory > Reference > History > Jesse James James, Jesse

An outlaw of the nineteenth century. Jesse, his brother Frank, and their gang committed many daring robberies of banks and trains, especially in the 1870s. After a reward had been offered for James's capture, one of his own gang shot him in the back and collected the money.


Jesse James is the subject of many folk legends and songs.




WordNet
Directory > Words > WordNet > Jesse James Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun Jesse James has one meaning:

Meaning #1: United States outlaw who fought as a Confederate soldier and later led a band of outlaws that robbed trains and banks in the West until he was murdered by a member of his own gang (1847-1882)
Synonym: James


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Wikipedia
Directory > Reference > Wikipedia > Jesse James Jesse James
This article is about the outlaw. For other uses, see Jesse James (disambiguation).

Jesse James.Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847–April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, the most famous member of the James-Younger gang. Since his death, Jesse James has become a figure of folklore.

Biography
Pre-Civil War
Jesse James was born in Centerville, Missouri (later renamed Kearney). His father, Robert James, was a slave-owning hemp farmer and Baptist minister from Kentucky who helped found William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri and later died in California. Robert's widow, Zerelda, married again, first to a wealthy man who soon died, then to a timid doctor named Reuben Samuel, who moved into the James home. In the tumultuous years leading up to the American Civil War, Zerelda and Reuben acquired a total of seven slaves and grew tobacco on their well-appointed farm.

Civil War
When the Civil War began, Union forces quickly drove organized Confederate units out of Missouri. But the state was badly divided between Unionists and Southern sympathizers (including the James-Samuel family), and local tensions were exacerbated by raids by abolitionist Union troops and simple bandits from Kansas. Jesse's older brother, Frank James, fought with the regular Confederate army until illness forced him to return home. In 1863, Frank joined the Confederate bushwhackers, guerrillas who were battling Union forces in western Missouri, in a savage war marked by atrocities by both sides; the warfare was probably more intense because it was largely waged by Missourians, with Unionist militia pitted against Confederate insurgents, which often pitted neighbors against neighbors. Frank and Jesse's own stepfather, Reuben Samuel, was tortured by local militiamen hunting for Frank's band. Frank eventually linked up with Quantrill's Raiders and took part in the bloody massacre of 200 men and boys in Lawrence, Kansas.

In 1864, the sixteen-year-old Jesse joined him as a "bushwhacker," killing Unionist sympathizers and fighting under such commanders as "Bloody Bill" Anderson and Archie Clement. Jesse and Frank took part in the notorious Centralia massacre in September 1864, in which 22 unarmed Union soldiers returning home on leave were pulled from a train and executed. In a battle against pursuing Union forces, Jesse was credited with personally shooting down the Federal commander. But the brothers' activities brought hardship on the family when Union authorities banished Reuben and Zerelda Samuel from the state of Missouri in January 1865.

Bandit Career
The end of the war left Missouri in shambles, its people bitter and divided. A militant minority, the Radicals, took control of the state government, barring former Confederates from voting or holding public office. Jesse himself was shot by Union cavalrymen a month after the war ended, leaving him badly wounded. During Jesse's recovery, his first cousin Zerelda "Zee" Mimms (she was named after his own mother), nursed him back to health, and he started a nine-year courtship with her. Meanwhile, some of his old guerrilla comrades, led by Archie Clement, refused to return to peaceful life.

In 1866, this group (possibly including Jesse, though he may still have been suffering from his wound) staged the first armed robbery of a bank in peacetime, holding up the Clay County Savings Association in the town of Liberty. The guerrillas staged several more robberies over the next few years, though state authorities (and local lynch mobs) decimated the ranks of the older bushwhackers.

By 1868, Frank and Jesse James had definitively joined their old friends in outlawry, when they joined Cole Younger in robbing a bank in Kentucky. But Jesse did not become famous until December 1869, when he and Frank (most likely) robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. The robbery netted little, but Jesse (it appears) shot the cashier, believing him to be Samuel Cox, the militia officer who defeated and killed "Bloody Bill" Anderson during the Civil War. Jesse's self-proclaimed attempt at revenge for the Civil War, and the daring escape he and Frank made through the middle of a posse shortly afterward, put his name in the newspapers for the first time.

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Answer 2

St. Joseph Missouri

Answer 3

I believe it was in Missouri. He was born there anyway and had family and friends there. I read a book on him too. I do not think he was in any particular city, I think it was just in Missouri.

Answer 4

The biggest city in Tennessee. I don't know which city is.

Answer 5

St. Joseph, Missouri i think......or was taht where he was born?

Answer 6

saint joseph, missouri

Answer 7

The WRONG city.