Jesse James Midgett

GEDCOM Note

E-MAIL FROM JAMES COCKRUM (10/1/1997): JESSE JAMES MIDGET WAS A CARPENTER BY TRADE AND CENSUS RECORDS INDICATE HE WAS RAISED IN GRAVES CO., KY. ON A FARM. LITTLE IS KNOWN OF HIS LIFE. THERE IS SPECULATION THAT HE DIED AND WAS BURIED IN THE BETHEL CHURCH IN SIMPSON CO., KY. BY CHURCH AND OTHER RECORDS DO NOT SUPPORT THIS THEORY. IN JULY 1965, GRACE DELMA REA COCKRUM MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT REGARDING HER MEMORIES.... "MOTHER (Emma Alvaretta Midyette) WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY. THEY CAME TO ILLINOIS BY OX CART AND TRAIN. THE BOYS DROVE AN OX CART THROUGH AND GRANDMOTHER AND MOTHER CAME BY TRAIN. MY FATHER MET THEM IN CHRISTOPHER, ILLINOIS IN WHAT USED TO BE TERMED A SURREY'. MOTHER'S GRANDMOTHER WAS AN ENGLISH WOMAN. HER NAME WAS COUPER (Judith Fulture Cooper). THEY ALSO LIVED IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY. MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER MARRIED A McPHAIL AFTER COMING TO KENTUCKY. MY GRANDMOTHER MARRIED A FRENCHMAN NAMED MIDYETTE. HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED--SHOT IN A CARD GAME IN KENTUCKY AND BURIED THERE IN PADUCAH, KENTUCKY."

1860 Simpson Co., KY 1870 Logan Co., KY Census (Gordonsville); pg. 381A Nancy a widow in 1880 Pilot Knob, Simpson Co, Kentucky, p395A