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JESSE JAMES’S WIDOW IS DEAD.Tfrr Passing Itnralls the Many Hardships YVIiirh Who Endured as a Bandit’s Wife,TRIED TO REFORM HUSBAND.A Htrirt Church Member, She Proven led Her Son Prom Going on the Stage—Present at the Assassination.Ttnrunuc spe'Tai^Kansas City, Mn„ Xov. IS,—Mm Zereldn JumciF, wldmv of Jesse James, the out-law, and mother of Jesse James, Jr.. died at her home In this chy this morning. In January ot ihls year Mrs. James was attacked by the grip. Complications devel-j oped, nrnl she had been confined to her bed almost continuously since she first became ill. The body yvtll be placed in a vault pond Inn removal to Kearney, tn Clay County, the old home of the Jameses, where Jesse Jam re Is burled.Mrs. Jesse James would never tnllc to any otto of iho days when her husband was an outlaw with a price on his head.For years after she married she was kept moving around the Country, always under an nssumud name, her true name being hidden even from her children, and living 1 constant dread and anxiety while her husband was away on marauding ax-peditlocr.\\ Inlij Jesse James was pursued os an outlaw he and his wife find children lived In this city under assumed names. Those days were full of eorfs trial for the wife, but Mrs. Samuels Bays she never complained. It Is well known that Jesse James had a strong affection for his wife and children, and sho had a strong influence over him. People who were close to the family in those days say that she tried !o persuade her husband to abandon his roving and hts robbing and go away with his fnmlly to some remote part of the country or to a foreign country and live a new llfo under a new name. This the bandit determined to do as soon as he eould make one more his stakeAt last. In the spring ot 18*1. came to Mrs. Junius the day and the tragedy that she long expected and dreaded. lier eon, who remembers IL distinctly, tells ot it as Sallows;Tltu morning my father was killed wohud just mushed breakfast, I heard from the front room the loud roar of a shot. My mother rushed In and screamed. I ran in after her and raw my father drad upon the tloor, and my mother was down upon her knee a by his side and was crying bitterly.Mrs. James was a member of the Methodist Church. She was a consistent Christian woman. IVhau she came to this city to Jive shu Joined a Methodist church and kept up her membership to thu duy of her death, she sent her buy and girl regularly to tiun-ilay school.U was Mrs. James who prevented fur Puy. Ji-sse James, Jr., from gulng upon ttie st.ige, snd she tried to keep him front posing a* the son of a bandit, ghe refused large utters front pub! lab era of sensational buoks for a Ufa of Jesse James, Unce when a representative of a rich company of theatrical managers came to her to try to persuade her to consent that her boy go on the stage as the hero tn a border drama she refused.Stic sent her children to school. Her son Jeese went to school till be was old enough to Su 10 work. Her daughter Mary graduated from the High School and received a gcod musical education.she dressed always In black. She never went upon the street without a widows veil. In the parlor of her home a crayon per trait of her husband stood on an easel. She wsa a remarkably quiet woman, not given to talk or goaslp. She waa a home-staying and a home-loving woman, who led a Christian Ilfs In her boms and set a good example to her children.
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St Louis Republic
St Louis, Missouri, US
Wed, Nov 14, 1900
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