A Yankee Train Robber!

[mofederal]

I have never done the DNA thing yet. My other great-grandfather after the war eventually ended up a City Marshal or Deputy U.S. Marshal in Ill. No one is sure. He refused to hang the last man hung in that county. He thought he was innocent. He traveled an awful lot for a City Marshal, to Oklahoma many times getting prisoners. You just never know for sure where or what you family goes.

 

[Sbc]

Jeez Louise! My latest DNA hit links me with a John Finn of Franklin Co., Ky. who show to have served in the 57th KY Mounted Infantry, and after the war, robbed a train with 11 of his old Army comrades. His father supposedly put up $4000. bail and he promptly skipped out, took off for Arkansas and changed his last name to White. He married a Rebecca Jane Coker and apparently reformed. Sheesh!

Two train robbers in the family! Worse yet, another Yankee!

I haven't figured out how we're related, but I definitely had a boatload of Arkansas relatives. Anyone up for a hunt?

My brother did the family tree research after "Roots". We had a horse thief in our lineage.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

My brother did the family tree research after "Roots". We had a horse thief in our lineage.

Oh dear. But you know. we're all devolving into their take on ' horse thief '. It was the worst thing you could say of someone. If someone wished to set someone up, ' horse thief ' was a terrific way to get rid of them- via the nearest tree. According to legend bank robbers were a little bit dashing (??? ). Steal a horse? Just to be accused was enough to blacken your name into our generation.

Not letting either off the hook as occupations. You do see criminals of any generation putting so much effort into what they do, you'd think common sense would tell them getting a job would be the way to go.