File includes genealogical information about the Jesse and Frank James family: Jesse's wife and first cousin Zerelda Amanda Mimms; great-grandparents William James (1754-1805) and Mary Hines (1774-?); grandparents John James (1775-1827) and Polly Poor (1790-1827); parents Robert Sallee James (1818-1850) and Zerelda Cole (1825-1911). Also includes a paper about their father Robert, a farmer and Baptist minister born in Kentucky who married Zerelda Cole in 1841 and then moved to Clay County, Missouri, in 1843 where he became pastor at the New Hope Baptist Church. Paper (1990) on the genealogy (with a genealogical chart) of the James family of Jesse James and its relation to the Ward family of Seth Ward (1820-1903) and the Harris family of John Harris (1795-1874), et al., including Thomas Martin James, or T. M. James (1823-1903), brother of Jesse James's father Robert James and founder of the original T. M. James China Company.
