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Yes, the outlaw Jesse Woodson James was his name. My ancesrty cannot be traced back to the Woodson family but some of my distant Coffee relatives are. The Knights and Coffee's who intermarried into the Woodson line migrated south from Virginia to Georgia. My line of Coffee's migrated west to Tennessee about 1810 and Fannin County Texas in 1855 and Stanislaus County Caifornia in 1867. My g.g.g grandfather Joshua Coffee is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Modesto,CA.

Specifically, the Coffee-Woodson pedigree in America goes like this: 1. Peter Coffee Sr., 2. Joshua Coffee (father of Gen. John Coffee of Tennessee), 3. Thomas Graves, 4. Elizabeth Woodson Coffee. About 1900, one of the Woodson and Coffee family descendants named Woodson Coffee became the ranch manager of the huge Turkey Track Ranch in Hutchinson County Texas. Woodson Coffee was the nephew of Thomas Logan Coffee who settled established Coffeeville in Upshur County Texas in 1854. In 1893-94, Tom Coffee was the head drover who trailed 65,000 head of cattle on the last trail drive from the N Bar N Ranch in Carson County Texas to northern their pastures in Wolf Creek Montana. That was after the terrible drought in Texas from 1885 to 1895. That ten-year drought and the advance of the railroads was what caused windmills to be invented because all the surface water dried up. The Turkey Track Ranch is where the battle of Adobe Walls took place. The Hat Creek Cattle Company (Lonesome Dove) in Nebraska and Montana was owned by Charles Frankilin Coffee, son of Col.John Trousdale Coffee of the 6th Missouri Cavalry, C.S.A. From the age of 18, Charles F.Coffee spent four years in the Confederate army.

See Paul Jackson's earlier response to the Woodson connection. The Woodson family name was another of the original Jamestown Colony settlers. The Jamestown Colony was on the James River and was named for King James of England. The outlaw Jesse W. James was not named for anyone in the Jamestown Colony. That is just a coincidence. Jamestown was first settled in 1608, before the pilgrams landed on Plymouth Rock.

Ancestry is off-topic discussion for this site but genealogy and the Civil War are closely related and referring to your ancestors and their families sometimes cannot be avoided.

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