Hopkins Co., TX - Obituary - Frank James

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JAMES, FRANK - (Texas Citizen paper) - One of the last survivors of the famous
James gang, died on his farm near Excelsior Springs, Mo., last week, at the age
of 74. He had been in ill health for several months but the immediate cause of
his death was a stroke of apoplexy sustained early Fri. Although at one time a
member of a robber band whose unparalleled career of crime kept the people of a
dozen States in terror, Frank James had for more than thirty years followed the
quiet life of a farmer. In 1882 after Jesse James had been shot and killed by
Bob Ford, another bandit, at St. Joseph Mo., for a reward of $30,000., Frank
James surrendered at Jefferson, Mo. After a hard fought trial he was acquitted
and went to Oklahoma, where he lived with his mother for some time before coming
here. (S.S. Gazette, Fri., Mar. 5, 1915)