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We got to see that when we passed through MO on an out west trip about 20 years ago.Original one room cabin with open tack room built in 1822 by Jacob Gromer. At some date the tack room was enclosed to make two rooms. The Robert Sallee James family acquired the cabin in 1845 & added the first addition to the east. Zeralda James sold that addition to the Worlds Colombian Expedition in Chicago in 1893, & bought a larger addition from the Sears and Roebuck Co. The World's Colombian Expedition went bankrupt & the first addition was sold again to a promoter. So pics of the homestead thru the yrs can be dated by pre-1893 & post-1893.
Pre-1893 showing the first edition
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Post-1893 with Zeralda James & guests (note woman wearing what looks to be a Sugarloaf Sombrero to the left of Zeralda)
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Zeralda James & guests circa 1905, approx 6 yrs before her death
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Date unknown & men unidentified (post-1905 I would think)
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1940's pic with Frank's son Robert & his wife Mae, possibly post-1944 after Robert's mother Annie died. Cabin is in major disrepair but Robert & Mae continued to live there. Green arrow points to the window the Pinkerton's threw the kerosene bomb thru.
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At some point the cabin was in such bad shape to make it look better it was covered with clapboard siding. Mae ended up inheriting the cabin after Robert's death & donated it to the National Historic Registry in the 1960's. It wouldn't be until 1979 that it was given to the state of Missouri & a full restoration & update was started. Jesse's original grave on the farm was excavated then to see what had been left behind when his remains were moved to town in 1909.
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