1. Zerelda James had one brother, younger than her by one year, named Jesse Richard Cole, who committed suicide by gunshot on 12 November 1895 at Kearney at the age of 67.
16 Facts About Zerelda James
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Zerelda James had been complaining of being sick for a few days, went to the chicken house carrying a pillow, laid down and fired a shot through his heart.
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When Zerelda was a child, her father broke his neck in a riding accident, leaving her mother with two young children.
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Zerelda James did not get along with her new stepfather, Robert, so she went to live with some of her mother's relatives in Kentucky, where she attended a Catholic girls' school.
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Robert Zerelda James was a commercial hemp farmer, a slave owner, and a popular evangelical minister in the Baptist Church.
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Shortly after the birth of his daughter, Susan, Robert Zerelda James moved to California to preach to the gold miners, where he contracted either pneumonia, cholera or typhoid and died on August 18,1850.
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Zerelda James's grave has never been officially identified, and no marker exists for him today.
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Zerelda James was the brother of John H Simms, who served in the War of 1812.
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Zerelda James was drafted around July 1814 to serve the same war in the Regiment of Virginia Militia, and served through December as a private.
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Benjamin demanded the children sent away, Zerelda James refused and left Simms because "he was mean to her sons".
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Zerelda James was killed accidentally in Clay County on January 2,1854, when his horse threw him.
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Zerelda James was worried that someone would come and take him so she had him buried an extra few feet down than the standard six.
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Zerelda James replenished them from the stream where the boys used to play.
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Years later when Jesse's wife, named Zerelda James, died, his mother had Jesse reburied alongside his wife at Mount Olivet in Kearney, MO.
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Zerelda James died in 1911 in the Burlington carriage on a train traveling to San Francisco, California of a heart ailment.
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Zerelda James was 86 years old and was buried next to Reuben Samuel, her third husband, and sons Jesse and Archie at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Clay County, Missouri.