I61884: Zerelda Elizabeth COLE (29 Jan 1825

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BIOGRAPHY: [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 15, Ed. 1, Tree #1589]: After Robert died in 1850 Zerelda Cole James remarried to a Dr. Reuben Samuel. She had four children by Reuben, but before she married Reuben she had married Benjamin Simms.
Zeralda had died while returning from a visit to Frank in Oklahoma. They took her off the train in OK City and later transferred to Kearney. The James farm is located near Excelsior Springs, Clay, Missouri. From this marriage came several notes of interest. Frances Peters Innskeeper, niece of Simms, married Coleman Purcell Younger of Clay County and moved to San Jose, California. A nephew, named for the Younger, was the outlaw Cole Younger. Mary, the younger sister of Frances married Martin Ringo and also went to California. Their son, John Peters, was the "Johnny Ringo" of Tombstone, Arizona fame. Zerelda was therefore, by marriage, the great aunt of the Youngers and Ringo and hers sons cousins, but only by marriage. Also, another strange marriage was another distant relationship. Adaline Younger, who married James Lewis Dalton, became the mother of Bob, Grant and Emmett, the core of the famous Dalton Gang, was the half-sister of Coleman Purcell Younger. This made the James boys, the Youngers, Ringo and the Daltons distant cousins. And further coincidence is revealed that Bruce Younger, half-brother of Coleman, married Maybelle Reed, better known as Belle Starr.

Zerelda's hand was blown off and her youngest child (Archie-8 years old) was killed by a bomb that was thrown into her home at night by Pinkerton detectives who were seeking to kill or capture her "outlaw" sons. For this cowardly deed, Zerelda and her family were given a lifetime pass on the railroad. She made good use of the pass. When she couldn't find enough of her family she would "adopt" neighbors as family. They said she had a comic spirit always at hand. She had attended St. Catherine's Academy in Lexington, Kentucky and met Robert James there.

BIOGRAPHY: [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0789]: At the age of fourteen (1839) Zerelda entered St. Catherine's Academy for women in Lexington, Ky. She met her husband, Robert, at a religious revival. Strong, domineering, outspoken, and fiercely protective of her surviving children (4 of eight), Zerelda had the size to back it up--5'8" and over 200 lbs. She married and buried three husbands to boot!
Sources: Title: World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1 Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Publication: Release date: February 9, 1996

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Children:
1. Abraham Rowden (c.1756-1840) served during the Revolution. He died in DeKalb County, Alabama.
2. John Rowden (c.1758).
3. Laban Rowden (c.1760) married Milley Adams, a daughter of Mourning Adams, in Pittsylvania County 27 December 1785.
4. Joseph Rowden (c.1765) married Susanna Adams in Pittsylvania County 6 January 1790.
5. Tabitha Rowden (c.1767) married Glover Crain in Pittsylvania County 17 September 1787. He is sadi to have left a will in Wilkes County, Georgia, 1799.

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Zerelda Elizabeth COLE

29 Jan 1825 - 10 Oct 1911

ID Number: I61884

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Buckner GORDON

ABT 1850 - ____

ID Number: I34310

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Dr John L. GRAVES

12 Feb 1793 - ____

ID Number: I24139

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Mary HARPER

ABT 1770 - ____

ID Number: I20818

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Ichabod LORD

____ - ____

ID Number: I49284

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RANDLE MAINWARING

ABT 1360 - 1456

ID Number: I74488

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Sarah Elizabeth MOUZON

ABT 1790 - ____

ID Number: I36680

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John ROWDEN

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ID Number: I97263

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William WIGGLESWORTH

ABT 1750 - ____

ID Number: I72118

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