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Title: Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Dacus, J. A. (Joseph A.)
Subjects: James, Frank, 1844-1915 James, Jesse, 1847-1882 Younger, Cole, 1844-1916 Younger, John, 1846-1874 Brigands and robbers
Publisher: Cincinnati : Cinncinnati Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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the pastor. Rev. J.M. P. Martin, and another hymn concluded the ser-vices. At half past four the procession was re-formed and passed back to the principal street wherethe hearse, followed by carriages bearing the mourn-ers and near friends, turned northward towards theSamuels residence. Back from the main road, some four miles fromKearney, so hidden by a gentle eminence on itssouthern side that it cannot be seen by the chancepasser-by, stands the early home of Jesse James.A grass-grown yard of perhaps an acre surroundsthe house; and under the summer shade of a greattree in the southwest corner of the yard a deep-duggrave awaited its occupant. When the funeral pro-cession arrived from Kearney, some three hundredpeople from the neighborhood were ready to receiveit; but none save relatives were admitted to thehouse when the casket was taken in for the purpose JESSE S LAST BESTING PLACE. 449 of permitting the dying John Samuels to look uponthe face of his half-brother. Those who ouofht to
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know say that John Samuels was not the onlybrother of the dead Jesse, who looked upon his face 450 FRANK AND JESSE JAMES. on that occasion. Frank James was in the liouse,having arrived on Tuesday night, and in this wayalone could he view the body with comparativesafety. But if Sheriff Timberlake and other officerspresent entertained such a suspicion, they madeno attempt to take advantage of it. The crowdwas armed, from man to boy, and no aire§tof one brother could have been made in that yardover the grave of the other. There were wild scenesof passionate grief on the part of the mother andwidow during the final services at the grave, andSheriff. Timberlake quailed when Mrs. Samuelsturned furiously upon him with the words: Theblood money murderers! When you spend themoney, Mr. Timberlake, remember where it camefrom.* A hymn at the grave, remarks by the Rev.Mr. Jones, suggesting that God and not man mustjudge the dead, a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Martin, afew softly thrown shovelfuls of e

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