A couple weekends ago we decided to take a drive to St Joseph Missouri about 2 hours away to see the house where Jesse James was shot. Jesse James is our "distant" cousin, if I remember right his Dad and my Great Grandma where brother and sister, anyway since we were so close we drove on over, we had some "famous" Missouri barbque, it was very good then off to tour the house. Here is my sister Nichol and Cheyenne in the living room of the house. Next my brother in Law Steve, Levi and Staci looking at the displays
Cheyenne looking at the pictures of him through the years, in the display case is the pieces of the glass top and handles from his original casket, when they exhumed him to do the DNA testing to prove he did indeed die from the gunshot the top was broken but they kept the pieces, he is now buried in a new casket in a cemetary in Missouri.
Next is the gunshot hole in the wall, the problem with this is, they have now proved that the fatal bullet never left his skull, so not sure where the hole in the wall came from, guess it makes a good tourist site. Picture of the outside of the house, it has been moved from the original site, but is in the same neighborhood it was in. The farm where he grew up is not far from this house, but we did not make it over there, we will save that for another day trip.
