Jesse James Eulogy

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Hello their I’m Jesse James, I don’t know if you heard of me or not. Anyway I’m going to talk about my life for Mr.H. I would like to share my story, what I did when I was alive. I guess I’ll start with when I was born, which was September 5, 1847. My childhood was not as great as you probably would expect, my father shows us true love by always playing with Frank and I. My father's name is Reverend Robert James, he made sure Frank and I were well-educated and hailed from prestigious family of farmers. Frank James is my older brother and Frank has done a lot of things that he’s not proud of. I think at the age of 16 me and Frank join the army during the civil war, we went on the confederate side. Cause the Union soldiers came brutally attack our family farm, so I went and …show more content…
We were like Robin Hood except, my gang mostly kept the money for ourselves. I think we stole like $ 200,000 thousands dollars. Also in 1881 Missouri Gov. Thomas T. Crittenden offered a $10,000 reward for our capture, dead or alive. Now that my crime life, what I did other than being a crook, I was with my wife and children. My long time sweetheart Zerelda was my wife and she is my first cousin. Then we got married in April 24, 1874, that day was the best day I had in long time. After that, Zerelda and I had two children, there names are Mary James Barr my daughter and Jesse E. James. I love them very deeply, I hope they had good lives. The government, really wanted me and my gang to be stop, so the government made the reward higher for me. For a while no one care, because they were too sacred to come up too me and try to end me. So I still continue to steal money from trains and banks. Then one day I was walking around in my house, I saw one of my pictures were angle so I went to fix it. After that there was a gun pointed to the back of my head and I was shot. That was the end for me, so the man who killed me was Bob

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