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Submitted: 5/20/20 • Approved: 5/21/20 • Last Updated: 5/24/20 • R825488-G0-S3
Jan 15, 1844 Harrisonville, Jackson, MO
March 21, 1916 Lee’s Summit, Jackson, MO
Parents
Henry Washington Younger
Bersheba Leighton Fristoe
Captain
Quantrill's Company
Confederate States America
Cole was an American Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War and later an outlaw leader with the James–Younger Gang. He was the elder brother of Jim, John and Bob Younger, who were also members of the gang.
Bob Younger died in Stillwater prison on September 16, 1889 of tuberculosis. Cole and Jim were paroled on July 10, 1901, with the help of the prison warden. Jim committed suicide in a hotel room in St. Paul, Minnesota, on October 19, 1902. Cole wrote a memoir that portrayed himself as a Confederate avenger more than an outlaw, admitting to only one crime, that at Northfield. He lectured and toured the south with Frank James in a Wild West show, The Cole Younger and Frank James Wild West Company, in 1903. On August 21, 1912, Cole declared that he had become a Christian and repented of his criminal past.
Frank James died February 18, 1915. A year later, Cole Younger died, on March 21, 1916, in his hometown of Lee's Summit, Missouri, and is buried in the Lee's Summit Historical Cemetery
Contributed on 5/20/20 by tomtodd
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