Any one know of Jesse James gang members with the first name of Shephard or last name .I'm thinking of a George and what happened to him?

Ah yes, George Shepherd, alias G.W. Smith. Apparently he went to prison, got married, then charged his wife with bigamy when he got out of prison. According to an article on the members of the Jesse James gang, posted at kansasheritage.org/research/james.txt , George Shepherd " Enlisted in the army at age 15, under Gerneral Albert Sidney Johnston, to fight the Mormons in what was then Utah Territory.

Fought at Wilson's Creek (Springfield, MO) and at Pea Ridge, AR. Rode with Quantrill, and went with him to KY, where he was surrendered by Capt. Henry Porter to Capt.

Young, US Army, at Samuel's Depot, Nelson County, KY, on 26 July 1865. Participated in the Russellville, KY, bank robbery, 20 Mar 1868. Caught and did two years in prison.

Attempted to help law officers catch Jesse James after the Glendale, MO, robbery. Was shot at Short Creek (Galena), Kansas by Jim Cummins because of it. Fell out with Jesse when Jesse, along with James Anderson for killing his nephew, Ike Flannery over Ike's inheritance.

Tracked James Anderson to Austin, Texas, where he slit his throat on the lawn of the State capitol building. With the support of the population, he escaped back to MO. In 1865, married Martha Sanders Maddox, the famous Confederate spy.

Martha first married Richard Maddox. She disguised herself as a man, called herself "Matt Sanders", and rode with her husband. Richard Maddox was killed shortly after the war ended.

Martha married George Shepherd and tried to help him escape from prison. Gave up on Shepherd, and married McMakin, a wealthy neighbor of her father. When Shepherd got out of prison, she chose to stay with McMakin.

Shpeherd charged her with bigamy, but she gained a pardon from the governor, and the charges were dropped. " Apparently, George Shepherd lived for quite a while after that. According to http://www.civilwarstlouis.com , he "died February 23, 1917.

He had played both sides of the law and at one point had actually claimed to have killed James but was not believed. He was a bushwhaker then after serving time had went straight. It was the Gov.

Who brought him back in to infiltrate the gang and he did robberies with them. He had shot James but I don't think anyone has proven this, not to my recollection. That was the episode with that Dr Burns.

When George W Shepherd (aka "One-Eyed George) was 15, he enlisted in the army to fight the Mormons. He eventually met and joined up with William Quantrill and his band of renegade Confederates. He was the cousin of Oliver Shepherd.

Jesse and Frank James were also part of this troop. He was involved in the Russellville, KY robbery of the Nimrod & Co. Bank, on Mar.20, 1868l, with his cousin, Oliver, and the James Brothers.

He was arrested and served two years in prison. Oliver was killed when a posse followed him to MO, and tried to arrest him. George returned to Missouri after his stint in prison and tried to go straight.

He offered to try to catch the James brothers after the bank robbery in Glendale, MO. George held a lot of animosity towards Jesse. There are varying speculations as to what caused the rift.

Some believe that it had to do with a woman, some think that it was in retaliation for Jesse James and James Anderson killing Shepherd's nephew, Ike Flannery, and some believe that he blamed James for his incarceration. Shepherd did retaliate against Anderson by slitting his throat after he tracked him to Austin, TX. He did it on the lawn of the State Capitol Building.

He escaped back to MO. Whatever the reason, he was extremely vocal about his dislike for James. Shepherd was in Galena, KS and claimed that he had killed Jesse James after gaining James' trust.

He alleged that he had a plan with law officials to lead Jesse into a trap during a robbery attempt in Empire, KS. James recognized a guard and fled. Shepherd enlisted the help of some of his mining buddies to help him kill Jesse James and ambush the rest of the gang.

Shepherd caught up with the James Gang, and according to his own accounts, rode next to Jesse, and when Jesse looked at him, he shot him in the head and rode off. Hardly anyone believed Shepherd's account. There were numerous reports of people seeing a quite alive Jesse James in Texas and Kansas.No body was ever recovered that confirmed Shepherd's story.

George Shepherd eventually died in 1922, at the age of 75.

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