I’m 71 yr old woman. My adult daughter asked me, “You are following a Mortician???????? Mom, are you ok?” Then I made her watch some videos. We laughed our a**es off. You are wonderful. Such diverse videos, who knew??? So happy I found your channel
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 ^__^
In my bf's hometown, there's a grave with just a foot that was severed by a train. The rest of his body died years later and is in a different graveyard across town.
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 😍❤️
Neither of those two graves actually contain the body of Jesse James... I am Jesse James and I'm still using my body.... This body is now 173 years old, and the way I feel today I can vouch for that age....
Love the video. I am a direct descendant of Jesse James. As a great-great grand-daughter, I was at the '95 exhumation in Kearney, Missouri. It was surreal, people were still advocating for succession from the union. My DNA was collected to help with the investigation. The inquest proved that the corpse in the grave was Jesse. All the men in the family have James as their first or middle name because the surname was not passed onto the four granddaughters of J.J. It is always a fine line, you want to be proud of your heritage, but your ancestors were not honorable or heroic. The family has tried to justify the actions of the James family by saying they were persecuted by the Northerners. But history does not support that view of the James' actions. The family tree has lawyers and teachers, which is what my brother and I ended up doing (I'm the teacher) and bank robbers. At least I didn't marry my first cousin who has the same name as my parent!
"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.
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.
Regarding the exhumation of Jesse James from the James Family Farm front yard: Zerelda had purchased a casket that was guaranteed to remain intact. Of course, when she was growing older and nearing death, she had the body moved to the cemetery in Kearney. As it was being dug up, the casket broke... pretty much in half, causing some spillage to become embedded more deeply in the dirt. When the farm became a state property, they excavated all around the yard, including finding bits of bone and such in the area of the grave. Reasoning that they had been there for quite a while and they might as well stay, the bits were reburied in a Tupperware container, keeping Mr. James "burp" fresh. Incidentally, Zerelda had an endless supply of rocks for the grave, since there is a creek just feet from the farmhouse from which she could get new rocks to put on the grave and sell. How do I know? I have worked at the James Family Farm for a bit. When this video popped up, I just had to watch it. I loved it, too! And now... you have more of the story. Cheers!
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.
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.
@@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.
As someone who grew up in Kearney Missouri, just down the road from the Jesse James house actually, I remember all of the debates and exhumations vividly. If you really want to see how the Jesse James legend has been twisted, you really should take a trip to Kearney.
Caitlin, could you do an Iconic corpse episode about Maximiliano de Habsburgo? He was an Austrian born Mexican emperor who was executed, embalmed, supposedly mummified, waterlogged, painted and who knows what before being repatriated
I was in a room with the exhumed and proven Jesse James remains (ca. 1995). It was fascinating. Certified Forensic Anthropologist, Diane France took molds of the skeletal remains There is a perfectly accurate positive casting of his whole (interred for 113 years) body out there (and some duplicate castings of some of the interesting bits and pieces) (all always respectfully handled, of course).
I'm from that part of Missouri. You wouldn't believe how many people claim to be his descendant. Back in the day, when I was single and dating, guys would actually try to use that as a pick up line! "Hi, Darlin' (ugh)... I'm the great great great whatever of Jesse James." Like I'm supposed to be impressed by that or something! LOL It was hilarious.
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!
As it turns out, William Henry Holland is my grandmother’s estranged uncle. I saw this episode when it posted and sent it to my mom because of the name and location of the grave. I just got off the phone with my 92 year old grandmother and asked who is buried next to Jesse James. She already knew who it was. I had to drag that much info out of her, but she doesn’t know what happened to his arm. Mom is gonna ask her cousins back East if they know the story. Our family branch went to CA after the dust bowl, so we are out of the loop.
@@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 😳
I now live 25 miles from the Jesse James Farm. I've been to his and Frank's grave as well as Bob Fords grave. I even live right off of Jesse James Drive. This people around here really take their Jesse James history to heart. Great video. Very well done. As are all your videos. I'm really enjoying them. Thanks
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.
My great-grandmother use to tell us when I was a kid that her father was killed by Jesse James in front of her. He was by far not a Robin Hood. They were poor farm folk.
@@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.
My grandpa lost his right arm when he was 7 in a griss mill accident in 1913 and it is buried six plots down and on the left side.... that’s always Bothered me
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had his arm amputated in battle and the arm was given a "full Christian burial" and buried in a a private cemetery in Ellwood Manor, not far from the battle ground where he lost it. His body is buried in Lexington Va. Apparently the arm was dug up and reburied in an undisclosed location. There's a video for you, "Iconic Limbs". LOL
Grew up a town over from Kearney (correct spelling) MO. In the 1970s I saw his grave in the Mt. Olivet cemetery. He's since been moved from there to the old family farm between Kearney and Excelsior Springs, which is a museum again. As a member of the county historical society I found his brother Frank's will in an archive of old documents. Frank settled down and became somewhat of a gentleman farmer.
I shared your video with my 89 year old father last week which opened up a now on going family discussion about the event. Your documentaries are a great way to spark conversation and usuallymore research into that event Thanks for your hard work And come on over to the East Coast Would really enjoy running into your team when you get here
Fun midwestern fact: if you're a teacher along the Mississippi or Missouri or general Ozark area, ask the class if anyone has a family legend about being related to Jesse James and count how many hands go up. It's less of a thing now than it was when my parents were growing up, but it still happens and it's still hilarious. It just goes to show how many Jesse James imposters there were that SO many people's families claim ancestry.
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!”
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!
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.
The story of William and his arm and the whole adventure to find his arm was thoroughly enjoyable and honestly made my day a little so thank you for that❤🖤
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! 👍🏽
Yeah I know a lot of those circuses used to claim they had the body of Jesse James on display but usually it be some corpse they just dug up and slap a cowboy hat on.
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
Many years ago there was an anthropology program on PBS about the James family. Jesse had a bone irregularity in one of his feet. It caused his boots to wear unevenly. When James' relatives were tracked down [ha] they were very surprised to find out they were related but believed it bc some of his male relatives have the same deformity and showed the wear on their shoes. I love this kind of stuff.
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.
My childhood friend’s dad lost his arm when he was young and they buried and had a grave for it and that was in the 1970’s. Until this video I have never heard of anyone else doing that.
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.
"So, is it true that he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor?" "No. He robbed from everybody, and he kept everything. He'd give you such a knock on the head, you wouldn't know rich, poor, whatever." -Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, "The Two Thousand Year Old Man", discussing Robin Hood (or maybe Jesse James)
As someone who’s name is “Jessie Dalton J.” This whole episode is a wild ride with keeping track of who’s who and thinking someone is calling me from the other room
My mother who was 11th of 11 children. Her sister just died 5 years ago at age 98. I digress. My grandmother their mom was a little girl and she was in attendance at Jessie James's viewing and funeral!
“There’s a lot we don’t have time to unpack there.” Now I have to clean up the coffee I just spit out from laughing. Your videos are the best, funny and informative. Lol
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!
True story. My family is from Stanly County NC. My great grandmother told me stories about Jesse when I was a little girl. When she was a little girl he came to recruit her grandfather into the gang. Years later there was a huge article in the local newspaper,. Did you know Jesse James came to Stanly County NC? Well I know it all my life. My granny died on my 11th birthday in 1954. I am now 78 and I remember those stories clearly. By the way, her grandfather's surname was Little. His photo is on a photo of the James Gang.
I have heard of this burying of body parts thing. I knew someone who's great grandfather lost a leg at Gettysburg. He survived into the beginning of the 20th century, carrying that limb (which had been cured like a country ham and kept in a violin case.) It went with him everywhere. It was his belief that his body had to be buried whole in anticipation of the “The Second Coming” so that he might be able to walk into Glory on his own two legs.
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Left Arm is buried in a separate grave. It's now on a median strip along US-1 in Virginia. You can't make this stuff up.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Jesse James looms large around here. Everyone around here has some either true or apocryphal family story about Jesse James. My family claims to have a silver spoon given to my Great great Grandmother when he showed up at their door wanting food. Thanks for this video this was great!
Mother Zerelda would travel into Independence or Kansas City, going to gun shops, pawn shops, second hand stores, etc. buying beat-up handguns, then selling them at high prices at her farm to visitors, complete with a note stating how Jessie carried it "in the old days". This went on for years. Fast foreward to 20th Century, with collectors paying 5 figures for a pistol Jessie carried "in the old days", complete with note from mom, only to find out it was a junker made years after Jessie died.
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"
Nancy Montgomery I think it’s a reference to Caitlin’s other videos. Something specific that came to mind is her Walt Disney series, where “Disney’s head” was a reoccurring theme ☺️ I could be wrong though
Yours is the first show that I've ever found that addressed this additional James grave site. Not only did you mention it, but you physically went there. I've known about this grave ever since I was younger than the current stone marker you claimed was placed in the 80s. My uncle Dub, who lived across the street took me there to see it, when I was perhaps 8 or 9 and the headstone had James on it. He told me then, that the headstone had been stolen several times already and once it was demanded to not bear James' name, but was later put back. All my kin are buried either in the Granbury or Fall Creek cemeteries. I hope you went to the town square while you were there. It's such a pristine county seat/court house surrounded by iconic 1910s America.
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Darwin are two others I can name off the top of my head whose wives were also their first cousins (Edited to fix autocorrect)
@@mnk9073 I find that difficult to believe. I know that on my native American side the reason for the animal designations was that it designated paternal lineages, if you were a turtle you could not marry another turtle. They strictly forbid incest on any level let alone 1st cousins. On my European side, we have our family tree mapped out to the early 1800's and no cousins are married. I personally know someone from a tribe in western Africa that allowed cousins to marry. As in, the only tribe in west Africa. She and others from there have trouble marrying outside of their tribe due to that because it's so taboo. You can see the reluctance to accept this claim, perhaps you can provide some link to verify this claim? (edit was to correct early 1900's to early 1800's. It was a typo, my apologies)
The story of William Holland’s arm reminds me of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes.” There’s a young boy who gets hit by a train and they have a funeral for his arm. Maybe this guy was the inspiration.
I must've watched this video a dozen times. I still get tickled at how expressive her eyes are behind that mustache. Such wit. Such humour. She is such a lovely and hilarious woman. She's amazing.
I think you only get one shot per exhumation order. They dug up a body, even though it was the wrong body, using up the legal authority of that order. A judge probably wasn't keen on giving another on the chance the new one was also botched. Depending on the state, some mix of a judge, the cemetery, and family have to agree to the exhumation. Sometimes all three. One of them could have denied permission for attempt two. So, a couple different possibilities.
There was a one armed teacher in the late 1800’s, in La Veta, Colorado, who felt a great deal of phantom pain where the arm was gone. When the severed arm was reburied with a funeral service., her pain was gone. This was noted in a family memoir by my grandmother’s sister.
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.
I’m 71 yr old woman. My adult daughter asked me, “You are following a Mortician???????? Mom, are you ok?” Then I made her watch some videos. We laughed our a**es off. You are wonderful. Such diverse videos, who knew??? So happy I found your channel
💀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!
*I find it hilarious how watching a video of a mortician talking about Jesse James's corpse is more uplifting to my mood than looking at the news.*
I do enjoy my morning coffee and Caitlyn
Or any of the other drama going around on youtube right now!!
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So true
“Worst roommate ever.”
William Henry Holland, probably.
No, I think Bob Ford already took the title of worst roommate.
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@@chadbiever6643 LMAO !!!!!!! GOOD ONE !!!!!!
“OMG They were roommates!”
After accidentally digging up poor Mr. Holland they could have at least used the opportunity to reunite him with his missing arm.
Mr. Holland and his missing arm is the most David Lynch thing I've ever heard...
I thought so, too!
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There's a song about that... Johnny Cash did a cover of it...but it happened in heaven: The Man Who Couldn't Cry...
In my bf's hometown, there's a grave with just a foot that was severed by a train. The rest of his body died years later and is in a different graveyard across town.
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
I'm gonna be honest, I was more invested in the guy's arm than fake Jesse James so thank you for including that adventure LOL
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
The fact that she went and also researched the person they accidentally exhumed and found their remains in another plot is dedication.
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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If there's ever an "Iconic Limbs" series, please do Benedict Arnold's leg. There's a statue memorializing it, and the story is WILD. 😂
Neither of those two graves actually contain the body of Jesse James... I am Jesse James and I'm still using my body.... This body is now 173 years old, and the way I feel today I can vouch for that age....
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Love the video. I am a direct descendant of Jesse James. As a great-great grand-daughter, I was at the '95 exhumation in Kearney, Missouri. It was surreal, people were still advocating for succession from the union. My DNA was collected to help with the investigation. The inquest proved that the corpse in the grave was Jesse. All the men in the family have James as their first or middle name because the surname was not passed onto the four granddaughters of J.J. It is always a fine line, you want to be proud of your heritage, but your ancestors were not honorable or heroic. The family has tried to justify the actions of the James family by saying they were persecuted by the Northerners. But history does not support that view of the James' actions. The family tree has lawyers and teachers, which is what my brother and I ended up doing (I'm the teacher) and bank robbers. At least I didn't marry my first cousin who has the same name as my parent!
"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.
This is the most Caitlin thing ever: trapped in Texas because of a pandemic, stumbles across an iconic corpse.
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.
So THAT'S why I don't do housework. Thanks for clarifying, Caitlin. It's so nice to now know why. A long, and messy life for me.
Regarding the exhumation of Jesse James from the James Family Farm front yard: Zerelda had purchased a casket that was guaranteed to remain intact. Of course, when she was growing older and nearing death, she had the body moved to the cemetery in Kearney. As it was being dug up, the casket broke... pretty much in half, causing some spillage to become embedded more deeply in the dirt. When the farm became a state property, they excavated all around the yard, including finding bits of bone and such in the area of the grave. Reasoning that they had been there for quite a while and they might as well stay, the bits were reburied in a Tupperware container, keeping Mr. James "burp" fresh. Incidentally, Zerelda had an endless supply of rocks for the grave, since there is a creek just feet from the farmhouse from which she could get new rocks to put on the grave and sell.
How do I know? I have worked at the James Family Farm for a bit. When this video popped up, I just had to watch it. I loved it, too! And now... you have more of the story. Cheers!
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.
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Best answer ever! LOL
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Zeralda James, Jesse's mother, looks and sounds just plain scary.
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
I can confirm in 1882 Jesse swam to New Zealand where he lived a wonderful life as a ant farmer and worm rustler. He is buried in my backyard.
Ant farmer 😂
As someone who grew up in Kearney Missouri, just down the road from the Jesse James house actually, I remember all of the debates and exhumations vividly. If you really want to see how the Jesse James legend has been twisted, you really should take a trip to Kearney.
Agreed!! It was super cool and interesting.
Yup, the folks in Kearney put it in a lot more human perspective.
"It's so hot and we can't find William Holland's stupid arm"
I want that on a shirt for some reason
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.
Caitlin, could you do an Iconic corpse episode about Maximiliano de Habsburgo? He was an Austrian born Mexican emperor who was executed, embalmed, supposedly mummified, waterlogged, painted and who knows what before being repatriated
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
I was in a room with the exhumed and proven Jesse James remains (ca. 1995). It was fascinating. Certified Forensic Anthropologist, Diane France took molds of the skeletal remains There is a perfectly accurate positive casting of his whole (interred for 113 years) body out there (and some duplicate castings of some of the interesting bits and pieces) (all always respectfully handled, of course).
I'm from that part of Missouri. You wouldn't believe how many people claim to be his descendant. Back in the day, when I was single and dating, guys would actually try to use that as a pick up line! "Hi, Darlin' (ugh)... I'm the great great great whatever of Jesse James." Like I'm supposed to be impressed by that or something! LOL It was hilarious.
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.
That arm story was way more of a wild ride then the Jessy James story. Just sayin.
Should I quit youtube my friends keep making fun of me for it
As it turns out, William Henry Holland is my grandmother’s estranged uncle. I saw this episode when it posted and sent it to my mom because of the name and location of the grave. I just got off the phone with my 92 year old grandmother and asked who is buried next to Jesse James. She already knew who it was. I had to drag that much info out of her, but she doesn’t know what happened to his arm. Mom is gonna ask her cousins back East if they know the story. Our family branch went to CA after the dust bowl, so we are out of the loop.
Keep updating please this s so interesting.
So what's the story Jeca? 😃
That's so awesome!!!
Following this!
😮
Ngl I'm fine with 100 year olds pretending to be random people, they deserve it
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...
"where you headed, Bill?"
"Gonna go take these flowers to the cemetery and visit my arm... could you git the door... "
😂
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤔👍🏻
I gotta "hand" it to you, that's a good one. Not a "reach" at all :)
😁😂🤣
"Yes he had a wife... also named Zurelda...also his first cousin, so there's a lot we don't have time to unpack there..."
I DIEDDDDDDDDDD LAUGHING!!!!
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 TH-cam accounts. 3 am challenge. PROOF!
Jeez I was too high for this conversation. Excuse me, I'll leave.
😂😂😂😂😂
Sometimes all you need to cheer you up is Caitlin in a mustache
or just Caitlin talkin' about death.
Truly made my day.
I now live 25 miles from the Jesse James Farm. I've been to his and Frank's grave as well as Bob Fords grave. I even live right off of Jesse James Drive. This people around here really take their Jesse James history to heart. Great video. Very well done. As are all your videos. I'm really enjoying them. Thanks
So his arm is that of a 13 year old and he’s a grown man laying on the other side of the cemetery... that’s trippy.
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
LMAO "also named Zeralda, also his first cousin, so a lot to unpack there that we don't have time for"
I'm dead cackling
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*
My great-grandmother use to tell us when I was a kid that her father was killed by Jesse James in front of her. He was by far not a Robin Hood. They were poor farm folk.
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.
Thank you for persevering to find the arm, that was a very satisfying conclusion
My grandpa lost his right arm when he was 7 in a griss mill accident in 1913 and it is buried six plots down and on the left side.... that’s always Bothered me
💙 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.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson had his arm amputated in battle and the arm was given a "full Christian burial" and buried in a a private cemetery in Ellwood Manor, not far from the battle ground where he lost it. His body is buried in Lexington Va. Apparently the arm was dug up and reburied in an undisclosed location. There's a video for you, "Iconic Limbs". LOL
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 🤣🤣
Jesse James: Should I marry my cousin or someone with the same name as my mother?
Sigmund Freud: Yes.
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. 🤣
Grew up a town over from Kearney (correct spelling) MO. In the 1970s I saw his grave in the Mt. Olivet cemetery. He's since been moved from there to the old family farm between Kearney and Excelsior Springs, which is a museum again. As a member of the county historical society I found his brother Frank's will in an archive of old documents. Frank settled down and became somewhat of a gentleman farmer.
Poor meowth. He must've been really lonely after Jesse-James passed away.
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.
These sketches are the only thing keeping me alive.
Sae
Same
Oxygen and these sketches ... ❤️
Josh *Pallor Mortis has entered the chat*
@Jai’mel Ranz my thoughts exactly!
As a Texan, the further into the story you went the more I was like “Yep. Sounds exactly like something we would do.”
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
I shared your video with my 89 year old father last week which opened up a now on going family discussion about the event.
Your documentaries are a great way to spark conversation and usuallymore research into that event
Thanks for your hard work
And come on over to the East Coast
Would really enjoy running into your team when you get here
“I don’t clean my house, it’s just too dangerous!” Thank you! I NEEDED THIS! 😂
Now gives you more than just the Iconic Corps. We present you, the Iconic Amputated Arm.
Next Iconic Corpse: Albert Einstein, please. Lots of shenanigans with his brain over a long period of time. Super shady, yet, interesting.
Einstein... a mug.
Young lady you crack me up! It's amazing how you can combine forensics, archeology, History and humor. Keep on rockin!
wow they did a real life "who's the real Dirty Dan" 😂😂😂😂
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
Fun midwestern fact: if you're a teacher along the Mississippi or Missouri or general Ozark area, ask the class if anyone has a family legend about being related to Jesse James and count how many hands go up. It's less of a thing now than it was when my parents were growing up, but it still happens and it's still hilarious. It just goes to show how many Jesse James imposters there were that SO many people's families claim ancestry.
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.
He was married to a woman who had the same name as his mother....
Sigmund Freud: Do I hear the call of my people???!!!
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!
By far the “fall guy/ghost train“ cowboy corpse is the most remarkable and bizarre vintage western body story of them all… You should cover that too!
I grew up thinking I was related to Jesse James but apparently everyone in my family spent generations lying about our ancestry so that's cool
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?!
😂😂😂 sorry about your family. People are saying a lot of the town made that claim and men used it as a pick up line 😂
Caitlin having a breakdown cause she couldn’t find a detached arm and it was hot is how I would describe our profession.
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.
Why didn’t they just give William Henry Holland his arm back when he was re-buried?
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.
The story of William and his arm and the whole adventure to find his arm was thoroughly enjoyable and honestly made my day a little so thank you for that❤🖤
Jessie James mother Zeralda standing at 6-ft, potentially being a murderer and surviving an explosion. Must be considered absolute UNIT.
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
Yeah I know a lot of those circuses used to claim they had the body of Jesse James on display but usually it be some corpse they just dug up and slap a cowboy hat on.
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.
Why didn't they keep digging in Tx, "just a little to the left, guys" as soon as they discovered it was the wrong grave?🤔
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
This woman telling the story makes every story sound interesting love her
Many years ago there was an anthropology program on PBS about the James family. Jesse had a bone irregularity in one of his feet. It caused his boots to wear unevenly. When James' relatives were tracked down [ha] they were very surprised to find out they were related but believed it bc some of his male relatives have the same deformity and showed the wear on their shoes. I love this kind of stuff.
I love seeing all of your videos please keep up the good work
That I never knew.Cheers.
“Jesse James’ fatal mistake is to do some house cleaning-“
This is the fact you share when you are against household chores 😂
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
My childhood friend’s dad lost his arm when he was young and they buried and had a grave for it and that was in the 1970’s. Until this video I have never heard of anyone else doing that.
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?
One of the best lines in True Grit, our hero speaking to Frank James: "Keep your seat, trash."
Fun fact for nerds (me): Jessie and James from pokèmon were named after hin
And there's Butch and Cassidy.
Now I'm picturing William coming back as a zombie and having to go find his arm. "I know it's around here somewhere..."
Well now I’m picturing him with one arm that like half the length of the other
@@lotofmalarkey434 “hey look it’s baby arm William!”
“Stop calling me that”
@@mollymcdade4031 baby arm billy.....
Okay, this made my day
That be so cool one armed zombie in Texas looking for his long lost limb
"So, is it true that he robbed from the rich and gave to the poor?"
"No. He robbed from everybody, and he kept everything. He'd give you such a knock on the head, you wouldn't know rich, poor, whatever."
-Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, "The Two Thousand Year Old Man", discussing Robin Hood (or maybe Jesse James)
Let ‘em all go to hell, except cave 76!
As someone who’s name is “Jessie Dalton J.” This whole episode is a wild ride with keeping track of who’s who and thinking someone is calling me from the other room
My mother who was 11th of 11 children. Her sister just died 5 years ago at age 98. I digress. My grandmother their mom was a little girl and she was in attendance at Jessie James's viewing and funeral!
Big deal
@@peterwierzbic7218 lmao your actually replying to a 6 moth old post!! lmao your a jack ass !
Well. I think that's pretty cool. 🤗
@@5150GSD What are YOU doing here...SIX Months later?
@@peterwierzbic7218 Better family story than YOU have.
“There’s a lot we don’t have time to unpack there.” Now I have to clean up the coffee I just spit out from laughing. Your videos are the best, funny and informative. Lol
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?"
I think I’ll start using “well Jesse James cleaned his house and that’s how he ended up dead” as an excuse to not dust mine. 😂
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
True story. My family is from Stanly County NC. My great grandmother told me stories about Jesse when I was a little girl. When she was a little girl he came to recruit her grandfather into the gang. Years later there was a huge article in the local newspaper,. Did you know Jesse James came to Stanly County NC? Well I know it all my life. My granny died on my 11th birthday in 1954. I am now 78 and I remember those stories clearly. By the way, her grandfather's surname was Little. His photo is on a photo of the James Gang.
Note to self: never dust pictures unarmed✓
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.
“After an illustrious career of killing all the people and robbing all the places....”
This was where I lost it. 😂😂😂😂😂
Mom: "A little house work never killed anybody you know!"
Me: *Lowering Sunglasses* "That's where you're wrong, kiddo."
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 have heard of this burying of body parts thing. I knew someone who's great grandfather lost a leg at Gettysburg. He survived into the beginning of the 20th century, carrying that limb (which had been cured like a country ham and kept in a violin case.) It went with him everywhere. It was his belief that his body had to be buried whole in anticipation of the “The Second Coming” so that he might be able to walk into Glory on his own two legs.
Wow!! A violin case huh? Now that's dedication!
Last time I was this early, Jesse James was still alive!
Haha, cool profile picture
Life goals: Be called "the worst woman in the state"
Challenge accepted 😎
I believe you to be a gifted storyteller. You're worth a good listen.
As a person from the UK, I have to say the phrase ‘bushwhacker’ sounds like some kind of innuendo 🙄
Bushwanker?????????????????????
oh, it can be an innuendo here in the States too :D
A Missouri bushwhacker is better than a Kansas Jayhawker
What about shrub rocketeer?
@@repletereplete8002 It refers to ambushing people while they are traveling
"He faked his death and moved to Texas."
...the most literal possible interpretation of the line "you can go to hell, and I'll go to Texas."
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.
Holland's arm.
Bentham's head.
Holland's arm.
Bentham's head.
Holland's arm.
Holland's arm.
Holland's ar-.
BENTHAM'S HEAD.
(GUNSHOT)
Bentham's head, with a hole in it.
Haydn's head...
@@LixiaWinter Already vanquished.
This was a fascinating video! You do a great job as an entertaining host, and you made the education provided by this video very fun to take in.
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Left Arm is buried in a separate grave. It's now on a median strip along US-1 in Virginia. You can't make this stuff up.
Actually, no one knows for sure where his arm is.
Born and raised in Kansas City, Jesse James looms large around here. Everyone around here has some either true or apocryphal family story about Jesse James. My family claims to have a silver spoon given to my Great great Grandmother when he showed up at their door wanting food. Thanks for this video this was great!
My family jokes that getting robbed in broad daylight is the only thing liberty is famous for
So, he was supposed to have shown up begging for food, then gave her a silver spoon? 0.o
What an odd thing to give to someone.
He’s actually my great great grandfather so it’s wonderful that y’all have a little piece of history from him :)
@@accapellaenthusiast5016 and meth, don't forget meth. Maybe not as much as independence but still relevant.
Mother Zerelda would travel into Independence or Kansas City, going to gun shops, pawn shops, second hand stores, etc. buying beat-up handguns, then selling them at high prices at her farm to visitors, complete with a note stating how Jessie carried it "in the old days". This went on for years. Fast foreward to 20th Century, with collectors paying 5 figures for a pistol Jessie carried "in the old days", complete with note from mom, only to find out it was a junker made years after Jessie died.
Ok, three things:
Was this the reason you were stuck in Texas a month-ish?
Early twentieth century is magic!
Holland's Arm.
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.
Caitlin: Bye bye flags
Me, reporting comments threatening her for it: bye bye racists
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"
Do the corpse of Emmett Till.
Such a tragic, powerful moment in history that showcases the brutality of injustice and prejudice.
That's white supremacy for ya.
@topherh33 What the hell is wrong with you?
what were they doing with his corpse?
carla paz his mother had an open casket after he had been beaten and drowned and it was really important to the civil rights movement
Tom Shelton it’s terrible for anyone’s memorials to be defiled!
“In between two babies they buried a 13 year old arm.”
Makes sense🤔😐
put that on a shirt
Old, small town cemetery? Yeah, that’s really not unusual.
When it's 3 AM and you realize you've been watching Caitlin and laughing/crying for the last 7 hours.
Hit the nail on the head!! I only quit watching last night because my phone died lol
Crying? She's witty but I haven't seen anything to make one cry...yet.
If there's a time capsule of the Pandemic, I want this comment to be in it
I just love your sense of humor in telling these stories. Keep up the good work. ❤️
Will the real Jesse James please stand up! I repeat, will the real Jesse James please stand up! We're gonna have an Iconic Corpse here.
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
Was I the only one waiting for something like "HOLLAND'S ARM" to pop up at the very end of the video?
Like at the end of Carrie?
Nancy Montgomery I think it’s a reference to Caitlin’s other videos. Something specific that came to mind is her Walt Disney series, where “Disney’s head” was a reoccurring theme ☺️ I could be wrong though
I was completely expecting it, too. lol
@@Ashley-rl1ek it's started with
Bentham's Head
And a meme was born
I was definitely waiting for that!
Here Lies William Henry Holland's Arm;
He Lost It On A Pecan Farm;
There Lies William Henry Holland's Grave;
Near J. Frank Dalton Anyway.
Yours is the first show that I've ever found that addressed this additional James grave site. Not only did you mention it, but you physically went there.
I've known about this grave ever since I was younger than the current stone marker you claimed was placed in the 80s. My uncle Dub, who lived across the street took me there to see it, when I was perhaps 8 or 9 and the headstone had James on it. He told me then, that the headstone had been stolen several times already and once it was demanded to not bear James' name, but was later put back. All my kin are buried either in the Granbury or Fall Creek cemeteries.
I hope you went to the town square while you were there. It's such a pristine county seat/court house surrounded by iconic 1910s America.
"His wife, also his first cousin, so theres a lot we don't have time to unpack there" :D
I work in genealogy and let me just say, that's surprisingly common around the world up until about the 1950s to be honest...
Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Darwin are two others I can name off the top of my head whose wives were also their first cousins
(Edited to fix autocorrect)
@@mnk9073 Especially, it seems, in the South.
I my country you can marry your 1. cousin 🤵👰
It is not frowned upon and it is 100% legal!
I actually know a married couple that are 1. cousins.
@@mnk9073 I find that difficult to believe. I know that on my native American side the reason for the animal designations was that it designated paternal lineages, if you were a turtle you could not marry another turtle. They strictly forbid incest on any level let alone 1st cousins. On my European side, we have our family tree mapped out to the early 1800's and no cousins are married. I personally know someone from a tribe in western Africa that allowed cousins to marry. As in, the only tribe in west Africa. She and others from there have trouble marrying outside of their tribe due to that because it's so taboo.
You can see the reluctance to accept this claim, perhaps you can provide some link to verify this claim?
(edit was to correct early 1900's to early 1800's. It was a typo, my apologies)
I was honestly waiting for a little "Hollands aaaarm" sliding into the bottom corner of the screen at the end there.
The story of William Holland’s arm reminds me of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes.” There’s a young boy who gets hit by a train and they have a funeral for his arm. Maybe this guy was the inspiration.
Or maybe the secret is in the sauce.
Lol. I was thinking the same thing about the arm in the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes.”
TOWANDA.
"The best danged barbecue I ever had..." 🤢
lol, exactly what I thought of!
Caitlin's videos always make me happy.
I must've watched this video a dozen times. I still get tickled at how expressive her eyes are behind that mustache. Such wit. Such humour. She is such a lovely and hilarious woman. She's amazing.
When they realized they had exhumed the wrong person why didn’t they go and get the right one?
Because they are afraid of the truth
Presumably illegal
I think you only get one shot per exhumation order. They dug up a body, even though it was the wrong body, using up the legal authority of that order.
A judge probably wasn't keen on giving another on the chance the new one was also botched. Depending on the state, some mix of a judge, the cemetery, and family have to agree to the exhumation. Sometimes all three. One of them could have denied permission for attempt two. So, a couple different possibilities.
A. Nite ahh right that’s makes sense, I didn’t really think about it like that. I’m not American so I don’t know the laws over there 😂
@@carle2013 but you know the examination laws in your country? :d I would not know them in my.
There was a one armed teacher in the late 1800’s, in La Veta, Colorado, who felt a great deal of phantom pain where the arm was gone. When the severed arm was reburied with a funeral service., her pain was gone. This was noted in a family memoir by my grandmother’s sister.
Your humor is hits me just right. Thanks for the video
"If anybody made Jesss James Jesse James, it was Zerelda."
Well, technicaLLY.
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.