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John Jarrette I've attempted to research John Jarrette (or Jarrett), who married Mary Josephine (Josie) Younger. He was a member of Quantrill's Guerrillas and a Captain in the Confederate Army under Shelby. He was also with the James Gang after the war. He and his family vanished after the 1870 census. 1870 Census: Ward 6, Carroll, Louisiana, Post Office:
Floyd I've seen a number of statements on line that aren't true, and wonder what the original sources were. Most people just keep repeating the same bad information with no sources given, and without investigating. Here are some examples. 1. Their house burned in MO and Josie and/or John were killed in 1868. (They were on the 1870 census near Floyd, LA) 2. The two kids said they never saw their parents after 1868. (They were with the parents in 1870, but the question is - who did they say this to and where and when? ) 3. The kids were named Margaret and Jeptha. (In 1870 they were Mollie and Jeff. Mollie is a nickname for Mary, so she may have been Mary Margaret, and Jeff may have been a nickname for Jeptha, but where did the names Margaret and Jeptha even come from? Jeptha Duncan lived with the Jarrette's in 1860. He married a Younger too, but the kids weren't with them in 1880, either. If the boy was named Jeptha, he was probably named for Jeptha Duncan.) 4. The birth years usually given for the kids don't agree with the census. (Where did the other birth years come from? Which dates are correct?) 5. Lycurgus Jones and wife (a Younger) adopted the two kids and raised them. (Lycurgus and wife had the same kids (theirs) on the 1880 census in MO that they had in 1870. Jeff would have only been about 13 in 1880 so he should have still been there, even if Mollie had married. By 1900, the Jones family was in Denison, Grayson Co.,Texas.) 6. John Jarette changed his name to John May and went to California with the kids. (What is the source? Where in California? He doesn't seem to be on the 1880 census.) 7. John went to Arizona and had the biggest sheep ranch in the Territory. (Looks as if the owner of "the biggest sheep ranch in the territory" would have left some tracks. What is the source?) ----------- Stories say Jarrette lived to 1891 in California (source: Jim Cummins) or on a sheep ranch in Arizona (source: John N. Edwards). Cummins also said Jarrette was arrested for a stage robbery in California and that his daughter testified against him. Edwards said that Jarrette was still alive at the time of "Noted Guerrillas" in 1877. Cole Younger refused to name the two robbers who escaped at Northfield. Some speculated they were Frank and Jesse James, while some said Arthur McCoy and John Jarrette. Cole Younger's statement later was, "One of those two men was killed afterward in Arizona and the other died from fever some years afterward". McCoy died from fever in Texas. Was Jarrette the one who was killed in Arizona? --------------------- The Ouachita Telegraph (Louisiana) Friday, November 24, 1876 Page 2, Column 3 IDENTIFIED. The photograph of the check-shirt robber shot at Northfield, Minnesota, and reported to be Clel. Miller, was not identified by anybody until a few days ago, when an old lady in St. Charles county, on seeing it, fell to the floor in a fainting fit. On her recovery she said with tears in her eyes that the dead man was her own nephew, John Jarrett, a brother-in-law of the Youngers. It is said that Jarrett’s family reside somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Providence, Louisiana. – Kansas City Journal of Commerce. The person alluded to above lived, we believe, some two years ago, near Delhi, where he was visited, since the war, by one or two of the Youngers, his brothers-in-law. He was compelled to leave that vicinity because of being suspected as one of the murderers of a German stock-trader near Delhi. He was, we believe, a member of Quantrell’s partisans during the war. (I compared the photo of the dead man and photos of Jarrette. They don't look like the same man to me. This would indicate, however, that John Jarrette and family left Louisiana about 1874. JRB) ------------------- I have a large collection of books about Quantrill's Guerrillas and the James Gang. I've found nothing in them to suggest where John Jarrette died. I found some interesting articles on line about the James, Youngers and Jarrette in CA. Apparently, when they were on the run, the whole bunch went to visit a relative of the James' with the surname Ray, in La Honda, in San Mateo County. They all used the surname Johns, the surname of a friend and neighbor of the Ray's and claimed to be relatives . They helped to build a couple of buildings and stayed almost a year (John Jarette was a carpenter before the war). If Jarrette went back to CA later, that may be where he went. If these stories are true, they may validate the story that he "died in the Frisco Mountains". Several of the Guerrillas moved to places after the war that they had "visited" while serving with Quantrill or while on the run. (Just speculation) I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INFORMATION ON THE LOCATIONS OF JOHN JARRETTE, HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO CHILDREN, AFTER 1870. E-Mail jrbakerjr@Yahoo.com Jim Baker |
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