- Lineage, Science and Genealogy-
By
Gene Stevens
All I can says is that the internet is an amazing place. It connects people in a very big way. It has both a good and bad side. Or in other cases it's one big confusing gray area. But in another amazing moment, I ran into a gentleman by the name of Patrick Taylor Meguiar. He was on the Jesse James Facebook page, which by the way is my favorite Facebook pages, because people there are open minded, non-judgmental, and they try to assist and compliment with other people's endeavors. There's a lot to be said about that. Patrick had posted a spilt comparison photo of Jesse James alongside a photo that he is in possession of. Which of course, he claimed was Jesse James. Unlike other photos I've seen, investigated and discussed. This photo initially caught my eye. And the simple fact that I am always very interested of new discoveries and mysteries in the making. I struck a conversation with Patrick. I was immediately impressed by his demeanor on social media. He was cordial, kind, very direct, courageous and open with his assertions about his photo of Jesse James. He was a breath of fresh air. We also discussed the Cantey-Myers collections and he said;
I have tried to reach Emery Canty myself. I agree the collection he owns is very impressive! I also have no doubt that the 1882 post mortem is my cousin, Jesse Woodson James! It matches the ambrotype that Jesse Woodson James gave to my great-great-grandmother, Sarah Mariah Martin Meguiar, in 1868 while he was leasing her property that included a horse track for training thoroughbred horses. Jesse James used that property to both learn horse training and to have the fastest horse for very obvious reasons. Frank James was quoted in a 1897 Tennessean article that Jesse James had his horse racing headquarters in Franklin, Kentucky. That is where he leased my great-great-grandmother's property. He was there from around 1866 and shortly after 1868. Later he rented a farm in the Boxcar Community where he raised horses in Humphries County, Tennessee. I know also that Jesse Woodson James' Missouri Partisan Ranger photograph is him. Shouldn't those two images be used to authenticate any genuine image of Jesse Woodson James? Any non blind person can see that all the pictures believed to be Jesse Woodson James are not the same man much less a true image Jesse Woodson James!
Jesse James used alias names to conceal his true identity and yet most believe that his true images circulated during his life and thereafter. Jesse James was no fool and after all he was trained by Captain William Anderson how to conceal and deceive which Jesse Woodson James mastered as an outlaw. He chose to live in Tennessee, because in Missouri he could not pull off his masterful deception where he would have been easily recognized. How Jesse James fooled people when he was alive still fools people today. How else would all those men be believed to be Jesse Woodson James? I have nothing to hide. Feel free to investigate me and my evidence. I only want the whole truth to come out!
-Patrick Taylor Meguiar
Patrick Taylor Meguiar. was born in Franklin, Kentucky on August 6, 1957. He is the son of Thomas Maynard Meguiar, Jr. and Eva Nell Groves Meguiar. He was raised on the family farm called Fountain Head Farms which is in Portland, Tennessee. His grandfather, Thomas Maynard Meguiar shared stories with Patrick about Jesse Woodson James. About When he was a child as told to him by his grandfather, Thomas William Meguiar who knew Jesse James very well because he and his wife leased the horse race track to Jesse James. I have owned the ambrotype of Jesse James since 1977 when my great aunt gave it to me. Patrick graduated from Tennessee Technological University in 1979.
I want you to know exactly how I am related to Jesse and Frank James. Their great-grandmother was Mary Hines James who was the daughter of John Hines of Hanover County, Virginia. Sarah Hines Martin was also a daughter John Hines and a sister of Mary Hines James. Sarah Hines Martin was my 4th great-grandmother. I descend from two of her children: Robert Martin and Elizabeth Martin Turner. Mary Hines James son, John Martin James was Jesse and Frank James grandfather. Family folklore is that Jonn Martin James was named for his uncle, John Martin who was the husband of Sarah Hines Martin.
I am a double 3rd cousin 3 times removed of Jesse and Frank James. My DNA through Ancestry confirmed that Mary Hines James was my 5th great aunt. The well known 18th century Douglas Register lists both Mary Hines James and Sarah Hines Martin. I will note that their maiden names are both misspelled as Hinds rather than the correct name of Hines.
My great-great-grandfather, Thomas William Meguiar was a very young boy when he saw Robert Salle James. Thomas William Meguiar was born in 1832 and died in 1908 and several months before Robert Sallee James moved to Missouri in 1842. As a very young boy he was so impressed by Robert Sallee James that he years later became a Baptist Preacher too. The Meguiar were earlier Primitive Baptist. When he saw Jesse Woodson James the first time he was amazed how much he resembled his father.
According to Patrick Meguiar, Medical Doctor's and Oral Surgeons who have examined the Missouri Partisan Ranger image concur that Jesse James had a misalignment of his lower jawbone that cause the misalignment of his facial structure. The say my ambrotype exhibits the same lower jaw misalignment. The doctors say it would have required a highly skilled plastic surgeon to have corrected Jesse James facial structure.
Photo courtesy of Patrick Meguiar
This is the Tennessee Historical Marker for the site where cousin, Jesse Woodson leased land in Tennessee. I don't know how long he had horses on my family's property, but this didn't happen until 1877. He was on and off with my family from around 1866 until he returned to Missouri a few months before he was shot and killed in 1882. I know he didn't have horses on my family's property after he leased this property in Tennessee in 1877. Again my great-great-grandparents sold the race track in 1873 to Uncle Will Martin. He served in the 6th Kentucky AKA the Orphan Brigade. It's possible he kept horses for Jesse James until 1877. I can't prove that though.
- Patrick Meguiar
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