Iconic Corpse: The Exhumations of Jesse James 

Yes it is

She's basically a mystery novel protagonist, but cooler and gother!

Why not lolol

@Mr. & Mrs Smith They didn't want to chance stopovers and either catching or spreading the virus along the way.

@Mr. & Mrs Smith She addressed this in an earlier video. She was being cautious about the risk of being a vector.

💀Death has never been so much fun !🎉😀

Not to mention she's serious eye candy with an adorable personality.

She does make death a lot less scarey and sad. And a lot more entertaining and interesting.

That's wonderful! Before I lost mine, I showed her a ton of these and she'd laugh so hard she'd have tears in her eyes ^O^ So glad you got to make a cherished memory through this channel with your mum ^__^

Her videos are a blast! Very informative and entertaining. She knows her stuff!

His mother , family at the time and even the first brothers were never honest people. I am very dear childhood friends with 4 descendants of the james family who two of the four attended my church youth group, high school and I have photos of Chris and Holly attending my wedding where Holly was the maid of honor for her best friend Jennie who grown up in the same church and throughout school since they were 8 years old together. Chris looks identical to Jesse's and could of been twins if they lived in the same time frame. Rachel, Holly's daughter is a few months older than my son so they grown up together from birth. Both are 20 years old today. The great grandson of jesse John James is also a honorable man with strong family morals however as mentioned, the James family has not always been honest people. Jessie's mother sold river rocks she collected by the stream being her house selling them for 50 cents each after laying them on Jesse's grave acting like they had historical value all while the James and Ford families bought guns only to sell them as " the gun that killed Jesse James" and "the gun Jesse's James owned" only to find out none of the guns were ever proven with people buying them up to profit on. So yes, the James family as you mentioned back then basically looked Criminal and evil as they really were but on the same note, the James family of today are the most humble honorable people one could ever become friends with. The James brothers were also both being trained for the Confederate cause of the civil war since they were 8 and 9 years old with training from their mother with real guns however Jesse's brother was captured by union forces to take a oath to fight for the Union later on in life as well before they rejoined each other later.

Jesse's dad was a preacher. She was so mean, he left them and went west to be a gold miner. No idea what her 2nd husband saw in her.

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@@ShowMeMo yes he was a preacher from California and his step father was caught by union forces and hanged back then. I think it was due to the union forces trying to relocate frank James during the war that resulted in the hanging if not mistaken.

Support your Troops & Athletes that was really interesting to read, thanks for sharing

Ant farmer 😂

Don't clean! That's how Jesse James was killed!

Reminds me of the old question lawyers in West Virginia hear most often: "If I git me a divorce from my wife, is she still my sister?"

Sae

Same

Oxygen and these sketches ... ❤️

Josh *Pallor Mortis has entered the chat*

@Jai’mel Ranz my thoughts exactly!

Also murdering in a pro-slavery way? Not a good look

Todd's Tropicals .....and family member of mine 😏

Everyone has a role in life...

@@pamelaneibuhr6959 Could be worse, would your rather Charles Manson be kinfolk? Jesse was a product of his times. As are many people.

It's not that far back, easy to track...

That’s okay I’m confirmed one hundred percent white via dna testing, as is my aunt, but my grandma still insists that her father was one hundred percent Cherokee, it happens to all of us.

@@JennaWallgren every white person swears they have a great or great-great grandmother who is full-blooded Cherokee but they don't know anything about her like where she lived or what her name was.

You too, eh?!

Should I quit youtube my friends keep making fun of me for it

Challenge accepted 😎

It's amazing how even in a video like this we still get people crying over her comments on the loser flag lmao. Like, weren't they the ones telling us to "suck it up, snowflake"

Wow!! A violin case huh? Now that's dedication!

I love seeing all of your videos please keep up the good work

That I never knew.Cheers.

Well, Caitlin never mentioned Jesse's father, so she leaves us with the true impression that Zerelda's energy was chaotic enough to produce Jesse by herself. Horrifying 💀

She left a lot out, to make a long story short Frank left for war before Jessie because he was too young so when Union Soldiers came to the farm looking for Frank they ended up hanging Frank and Jesse's father this is what turn Jessie into the man he was and plus war crimes committed by Union Soldiers in Missouri.

@Ad Lockhorst Right! 😂😂😂

I think you'll find that the Union Army stopped him on his "mission". As did Bob Ford. ;)

I have a grandma Fay on my dad’s side, too. She’s still more than alive though. Kinda cool.

He's literally everyone in Missouris cousin.

That is fucking cool!!!

I do enjoy my morning coffee and Caitlyn

Or any of the other drama going around on youtube right now!!

Fer Reals.....totally! ✌

Same🤞

So true

Mr. Holland and his missing arm is the most David Lynch thing I've ever heard...

I thought so, too!

#ReuniteHollandwithisarm👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@@cinemaocd1752 is the

There's a song about that... Johnny Cash did a cover of it...but it happened in heaven: The Man Who Couldn't Cry...

Best answer ever! LOL

I'm sorry but we're you in the midnight gospel? It sounds like you I'm gonna say it is you.

Now THIS is too funny! Love your comment!

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I have to say me too! I always wondered if that did that ... back in the day! 🤔 my question is then why did they give back to him when he died.... I mean they should be tougher right? Thanks for the video Kathleen 😍❤️

I was interested in Stonewall Jackson's arm.

It’s just like in Fried Green Tomatoes when the kid gets his arm ran over by a train and they have a funeral for it !

Totally agree!

we want more iconic arms

I AM SPARTACUS

I am Inigo Montoya.

I am Olof Skötkonung, the christianizer of Sweden. I am now almost a 1000 years old and I suddenly feel the need to learn Tinder.

He isn’t lying guys The Illuminati transferred his consciousness

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No, I think Bob Ford already took the title of worst roommate.

"Would slay again." Air Bed & Bullets

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@@chadbiever6643 LMAO !!!!!!! GOOD ONE !!!!!!

“OMG They were roommates!”

I’m from the area too and it’s so odd how obsessed people are with him

"Hey baby. My ancestor butchered people for the right to own slaves and robbed people. Doesn't that make me attractive?" Lol.

Damn, I wanted to try that. I found out recently that I’m a descendent if King/Saint Louis (and a bunch of other royals and nobles, but he’s the coolest). Luckily, I have proof though. Still don’t think any dates will be impressed lmao, but I think it’s cool!

So, it didn't work?

constancewsca I moved to Missouri a little over a year ago, and honestly have had guys use this to try and get a date. Nope.

Yup 😂

And who is also his first cousin. I wonder how their grandkids are doing.

Phinehas46 there’s many things wrong with marrying your cousin 🙈

Kaitlyn94Marie aside from the ick factor, one person marrying their cousin is not likely to have much difference in a standard gene pool. If we are talking about small towns where people intermarried for centuries or royal families that married cousins to each other regularly for generations, then you are going to eventually have some issues popping up (like a certain royal family and their inbred kids with hemophilia).

Reason why is INBREEDING, which is popular with white supremacists for keeping the bloodline pure. James' wife was his 1st COUSIN and his mother's NEICE! Also his Aunt's DAUGHTER. Anyway you slice it, that's white supremacy for ya!

You yankees sure like acting the Unionists didn’t marry their cousins or had slavery....

@@harrisn3693 no one said they didn't??

@@harrisn3693 so how’s your sister-cousin-wife doing?

@@joekait6035 she is a 10 you scrubby yankee

People hetvhold of a great name and just can't seem to let it go. 🤣

If you’re 100 years old, you can be whoever you damn well please.

@@mxnjones If you can remember who you are.

@@updownstate ayyyyy not everyone at that age is senile. Maybe it really was weighing on him and felt death was soon. I mean just look at the nose and facial structure 😳

Just think people today might be acting like a famous people today in 2070s on….

@@mxnjones came here to say the same thing...

That’s so neat hahahaha

So..instead of a headstone it has a....footstone?

Found it: www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC3T834_one-foot-in-the-grave

@@DriveInFreak that's the one!

Oh lordy

Now that... Sounds interesting

Right, I'm interested!!

I second this!!

I’m voting for this too! This needs to be an Iconic Corpse video.

I just heard a podcast about him. They didn’t cover what happened to his body really. I would watch it

or just Caitlin talkin' about death.

Truly made my day.

oh VERY much. I have great great great + relatives where this was this was totally the thing that was.

✨The South✨

Sweet home texas

Bring out the banjos.

Dib Irken it was actually more prevalent in the *north*

A. Cobb, if you died laughing, how'd you write this comment? Sounds like a dead pirate story to me . . . .

Ghosts are real and they have RU-vid accounts. 3 am challenge. PROOF!

Jeez I was too high for this conversation. Excuse me, I'll leave.

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You know honey, that's how Jesse James was killed

I remember watching something a few years ago about him being shot while dusting or hanging a picture on the wall. Couldn't remember which til now, but even at the time i shared your exact sentiment.

I'm telling this to my husband when he gets home

I'm cracking up over the fact that I put this on to listen to as I clean 😂

I did that

LOL about the Tupperware "burp fresh"

A fun addition to enjoyable work. Thanks for finding a gentle way to present a correct spelling of the town. Just started watching her work and find it factually entertaining overall. Grew up a few counties away so I winced but the quality of research I've seen leads me to think a software interpretation/"auto incorrect" is the cause.

Could do a whole range of shirts. Secret porpoise, the middle ages were magic, Benthams head etc

I would like to see it

Pure Gold!!! And we death enthusiast would be the only ones that understand

Personally, I thought she was being very unfair to his arm, but then I thought, "just how smart can an arm be, anyway?"

As a member of the SCA, I need a " Middle Ages were Magic!" Shirt.

I mean, I'm a Yankee, but you never know....better leave dust alone. Still, do we get to pick what name we want on our tombstone? I'm going for Amelia Earhart! EVERYONE BRING FLOWERS! 50 cents to take a pebble!

Damn...and I've been using the fact I'm legally blind as my excuse. I better up my game.🤣🤣🤣

Lol,, it is the best excuse to never dust again..

Dust makes everything look authentic.

Works for me

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Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤔👍🏻

I gotta "hand" it to you, that's a good one. Not a "reach" at all :)

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I'm going to use the hell out of this one!

u call ur mom 'kiddo'?

Dion G for a joke, dude, for a joke.

@@greaseman6825 That's the trouble with humor, you have to rely on the relative intelligence of the audience.....

Well, the housework wasn’t so much a problem as the young hopeful bounty hunter with a gun at his back...

I'm dirty Dan!

@@petermercurio9415 No! I'm Dirty Dan!

Which one of you fellers is the reeeeeeal dirty dan????

I am the real Dirty Dan, just ask SpongeBob

I’m dirty Dan

Agreed!! It was super cool and interesting.

Yup, the folks in Kearney put it in a lot more human perspective.

Or, if "they" really knew/know their business, just ask at the Cemetery office or, local mortician..... Maybe even the person who mows the grass.....

Highly appreciated

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"you want to be proud of your heritage, but your ancestors were not honorable or heroic" I felt that because learning about my ancestry, I have Spanish Conquerors in my lineage, who can be classified as psychos and genocides (one of them loved to kill people), on the other hand I have an analphabet seamstress single mother as a great great grandmother and a former Chinese slave (grandfather of my great grandmother) who escaped from Perú to live in Chile. And I felt prouder of the seamstress and the slave than I felt about the other ones.

@@michirukaioh4014 lol

For me, this is where DNA ancestry can be quite interesting. You get a chance to research the histories, and how those histories may or may not have related to choices our ancestors may have made. In my particular case, my DNA and history indicate that I’m my own sworn enemy, twice over! Makes for an interesting personal story. Lol!

My Grandmother in WV (deceased now) swore that Jesse James and some of his gang stayed holed up at her house. He built her a cabinet(pie safe) and signed and dated it. It was her prize possession. I don't know if there's any truth to the story or not. Rumor is one night they all went to bed and sometime during the night he and his gang hopped a freight train going north. She said they never saw or heard from them again. She said they gave her daddy a lot of money and they had to spend it slowly someone would question it.

Being from WV myself. I just have to ask. What part of WV was she from? It's just interesting to think maybe Jesse James was staying here in WV. Especially since I personally know many James's around here and one named exactly after the original Jesse James.

Someone left a link for the video in a earlier comment.

how many iconic limbs equals one iconic corpse?

@@lotofmalarkey434 Four for women, five for men!

My first thought was Jackson. Didn't know the arm had been relocated.

@@AvengerII 🤣🤣

How does a girl from Hawaii, who lives in L.A. have issues with the heat? Anyhow, great episode.

@@UhlanBC Texas heat is unbelievable

@@UhlanBC The humidity is terrible.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now that's hilarious... and why I bother to read comments.

It's sad that so many people seem to think that that's something to be proud of. Oh well.

James family was an attractive one...so I would possibly be more apt to believe someone claiming to be ancestor of James clan if the claimant had such features as well! 🤷‍♀️

Other fun midwestern fact: there’s a yearly re-enactment in Northfield, Minnesota of that time they ran his gang out of town. “Grab your guns, boys! They’re robbing the bank!”

Same thing with Wyatt Earp. I've met Soo many of his distant cousins here in Kansas.🤣

It is a thing only for Anglo Americans. It isn’t a less of a “thing” just that you won’t see a black or Asian person claiming to be an OG gangsta.

To be fair he's definitely just bones now

@@jasper3706 Yes. Little short bones that belong to a long grown man's body. Trippy

Trippy would be exhuming both, replacing the 13 year old arm back onto the adult skeleton and giving archeologists a mystery to solve centuries from now.

@@davidmcmanus4751 yes... do this... do this now

* lying

Einstein... a mug.

Right!!

LoL!!

I love this!

Cause he’s the outlaw baby the real outlaw baby

Hi kids! Like violence? Wanna see me shoot these guys through their eyelids???? LoL

That's right

Woooooo-buffet

They'll never blast off again

Rahul Xavier There’s still Butch-Cassidy, maybe he can partner with them.

You know I never put that together, I wonder if they did that on purpose.

💙 I am sorry. My friend Lost his Leg and didnt get it back. As he says the Dr's stole it in his sleep.

😂😂😂😂This is the kind of thing that would make me nuts also. His right arm buried to the left of him? Impossible!!

I’m sorry if that wasn’t meant to be funny but I just laughed way too long about that. I would be bothered by that too.

Why on earth did they bury limbs in cemetaries?

This made me laugh.

Hahalarious!

A difference without a distinction.

My Dad had a saying about Texans: Question: when is a Texan Lying? Answer: Whenever his mouth is open!

Sort of thought they were the same thing. You can’t get to either one without going through DFW.

@@janelansaw7082 As a born and bred Texan who''s always flown out of DFW...I won't say that's inaccurate.

@dream big You just go right ahead.

As a fellow Texan I can agree to that

100% lol

As a Texan transplant, the further she went into the story the more i saw she was used to that sweet, sweet cali 80 degrees year round 😂

@Callie Dillard, that was my thought as well. We really need to get her here for one of her salons.

As a fellow Texan i agree

Yee-haw

I'm not even surprised anymore, lol.

"And slap a cowboy hat on" cowboy whip noise

Like ya do

@@cassandraluvlee4567 Don't forget the boots.

Dont understand why he was a legend.He was a horrible man

@@davehoward22 people idolize outlaws, and brigands. The despite their actions people see them as a representation of absolute "freedom" outside of the law. The guy was a murderer long before his gang. His guerrilla actions with Bill Anderson's evil ass was just a warm up. Bill loved to murder innocent women and children and laughed while people were tortured. Jesse James was an evil man.

He was a garbage human being and I’d like to think most people think so

@@davehoward22 Same with Dillinger and others, People like to root for the ones that dare to go against the law and the established.

There was a Brady Bunch episode that was similar to this.

It was too hot and they stopped searching

Lita Rowan omg yesss

thatd be a big old man skeleton with a tiny little 13y/o arm. an interesting grave

@@LixiaWinter Do it in the fall.

Watch them do that only to discover a leg --- not an arm --- in Holden's arm grave.

Keep updating please this s so interesting.

So what's the story Jeca? 😃

That's so awesome!!!

Following this!

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Maybe they were trying to hide the mistake at the time so the other guy's family didn't sue? Or they didn't want the bad publicity?

I was trying to find the answer to that one myself. I had to laugh at this quote on one of the local news websites in Texas: “We want to do the same thing we did before. Of course, we're going to move over one spot," Hardcastle said. "It wasn't our fault the tombstone was put in the wrong place."

Good question. Exhumations aren't like prospecting for gold, where --- if you don' t find what you're looking for -- you dig somewhere else. An exhumation requires paperwork for (in this case) just one body. Dig up the wrong body? Too bad. More paperwork. Then there's the cost of digging. Whoever footed the bill for the first exhumation, probably didn't want to go through the whole shebang again and spend more money.

@@hlcepeda Yes, but legally they had the right to do it because of poor management on the part of cemetery. However, although the gentleman look very much like an aged Jessie, the hairline was all wrong. Glad they didn't do it.

@David P I imagine it's so that they could say, "well we tried" even though they knew the entire Dalton story was horse apples. It's a pretty disgusting story all round

You know one thing an outlaw can't stand is a dirty or crooked picture.

You know I always fear that when I dust things someone lunatic will be around and shoot me in my melon

Unarmed and without a rear view mirror mounted to your hat.

I would totally plant a tree on my arm grave and be like yo that tree used to be my arm

It is also portrayed in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes

It's common for Native Americans to do this

I have an ancestor that lost his arm to a farming accident. They buried his arm in a cemetery with the expectation that, when he died, his body would be buried where his arm was “laid to rest.” He ended up moving away from the area, so his body is in another cemetery. But as a child, when we visited cemeteries on Memorial Day weekend, we would get told the story of his arm, and place a flower on the spot it was buried.

Did he reserve his future grave in the same spot so he can get it back one day?

Dying! 😂😂😂

Which ona u fellrs is the REAL Dirty Dan?

Ok but heard that in my head. I wish they did that Bentham's head parallel 😅

She was in lockdown in Texas due to corona.

Nobody ever gets stuck in Texas.

Well Caitlin is taller.. by an inch at 6'1” ... I don't know if she survived an explosion, but I do know she's not a potential murderer.. 😂

Ben Lawrence I’m 6’ tall! 😳! I’m a woman. I figured long ago that if you can’t make yourself look shorter....wear high heels and go taller. Lol. Yeah....never been blown up, or murdered someone, which is good....but I did swirly a rude man in a bar once! 👍🏽

There's a lot of tall women in the Midwest. I know several over 6'

@@bridgetthewench I’m moving to the Midwest asap

Haydn's head...

@@LixiaWinter Already vanquished.