. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ,and w^hich was not discovered until the body wasbeing prepared for burial by the family of the mur-dered man. The pitiless rain of sorrow and adversity whichhad now begun to descend upon the head of theAvidowed mother of the Younger Brothers, abatednothing of its fury during the remainder of her tor-tured life. Her sons were driven one after anotherto the black flag of Quantrells avengers, where theirterrible prowess and remorseless deeds doubly in-flamed the hatred of wolflsh en
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ,and w^hich was not discovered until the body wasbeing prepared for burial by the family of the mur-dered man. The pitiless rain of sorrow and adversity whichhad now begun to descend upon the head of theAvidowed mother of the Younger Brothers, abatednothing of its fury during the remainder of her tor-tured life. Her sons were driven one after anotherto the black flag of Quantrells avengers, where theirterrible prowess and remorseless deeds doubly in-flamed the hatred of wolflsh enemies, against thenon-combatant members of the family, and addedbrimstone to the fires of persecution, The vine andfig tree that had grown so luxuriant in the happyspringtime, shed their leaves as in a winters blast,and were consumed as by the breath of a daughters were torn from her side and theirmancrled bodies brouo^ht back dead from the ruins ofthe prison, which an infuriated mob tore down overtheir heads. Taking refuge at last in the little homethat remained to her in Cass county, tw^enty-two. 466 4:66 THE YOUNGER BROTHERS. wolves in Federal uniform pursued her thither onthe 9th of February, 1863, and demanded the secretof Coleman Youngers hiding place. Threats fail-ing to Qxtort a secret which the poor woman did notpossess, the soldiers compelled her to set fire to herown house with her own hands, and when the lasttimber was consumed, the homeless widow was per-mitted to totter three miles through the snow to aneighbors house for shelter. It was this atrocitywhich sent James Younger, then a lad of only four-teen years, into Quantrells band in search of ven-geance. It was about this time, too, that the seedswere developed of that fatal consumption, whichterminated her blighted life in May, 1870. Fromthe ashes of her Cass county home, she shortly afterfound a refuge under the roof of her son-in-law,Lycurgus Jones, in Clay county. When the war wasover, Coleman Yo
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