Personal Life
James was named after his father and Major John Newman Edwards. He went by the name of Tim Edwards in his youth to conceal his relationship. After his father's death Jesse James, Jr. and his family lived in Kansas City and were taken under the wing of Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr., the son of Governor Thomas Theodore Crittenden, who had signed what would become the death warrant of the outlaw Jesse James. In 1898 Jesse was arrested, and stood trial in 1899, for the robbery of a Missouri Pacific train, but was acquitted.
James married Stella Frances McGowan (Feb 27, 1882 – Jan 1, 1971) on January 2, 1900 in the parlor of his mother's home, as she was too sick to attend the wedding.
The couple had four daughters:
- Lucielle Martha James (born December 21, 1900 – June 11, 1988)
- Josephine Frances James (born April 20, 1902 – March 31, 1964)
- Jessie Estell James (born August 27, 1906 – February 2, 1987)
- Ethell Rose James (born July 10, 1908 – December 30, 1991)
Mr. and Mrs. James moved to Los Angeles California, in the 1920s, where for a time they ran a restaurant called "The Jesse James Inn", and remained in California until his death in 1951.
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