| Name |
Julia Augrona James  48 |
| Birth |
17 Jul 1866, San Saba, TX32,48,50 |
| Death |
27 Nov 1945, Yuma, AZ32,48,50 |
| Burial |
1 Dec 1945, Yuma, AZ48 |
| Father |
Cyrus Huston James (1819-1881) |
| Mother |
Mary Cummings |
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| Misc. Notes |
Julia came from South Texas to Yuma Arizona by covered wagon train via a famous trail (Santa Fe?). Twice hostile Apache Indians attacked the wagon train. Julia claims it was the famous Geronimo and she claims to have seen him during one of the attacks. Several people were killed and wounded in the wagon train during these attacks.
Family lore and verbal history tell that Julia James is related (cousin) to the famous outlaw, Jesse James. Julia always denied such a connection, “Why would I be related to an outlaw?”
Julia died in when her house caught on fire. Julia's Kerosene stove seems to have exploded. It was surmised by the family that Julia attempted to refill the glass reservoir on the stove (while it was hot) and either broke the glass reservoir or spilled some of the fuel and the stove caught fire. Julia ran outside of the house yelling “Fire! Fire!..... Dora! Dora!” then ran back into the house. Dora, her daughter, who lived across the street (a dirt street at the time), called for her son-in-law, Nick (Charles N. Reese) who was in Dora's house at the time. When Dora saw Nick coming to help, she also ran inside the house to help put out the fire and rescue her mother. Nick came and pulled Dora out of the burning house and literally sat on her to keep her from going back into the burning (wood frame and siding house). A friend named Mr. Cloud came along and Nick asked him to hold Dora down, and he did. Nick attempted to see if he could rescue Julia. He entered the house a step or two when Julia came to the doorway, badly burned. Nick helped her out of the house and laid her down on the little front lawn where she died within seconds. Nicks hands were burned in this rescue attempt. No one really knows why Julia ran back into a badly burning house, but family lore has always thought that she ran back in to “get her money”. 32
I don’t know which brand stove it was, but I have included a couple of pictures of kerosene stoves for reference as to how the glass reservoir might have been situated. All the examples I have found have the glass reservoir dangerously close to the stove. |
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| Marriage |
1883, San Saba County, TX52 |
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