Upton, Bastrop Co, TX: Oma Mae Screws Eastman said her mother, Tina Kelley, daughter of William Leonard Kelley, told her she had sat in the lap of Jesse James when she was a little girl and Jesse James had made her a doll. Also, she added, Frank James, Jesse James, and the Younger brothers would stay at their home, the William Leonard Kelley place, in Bastrop County, Texas. It was told the James' brothers were their cousins, and while at Bastrop, they wanted to exchange horses. The Kelley's wouldn't exchange horses because the exchange might make the family accomplices in the James' crimes. The next morning, they had exchanged horses anyway, and put a coiled rope on the barn floor, filled with money. The horses left were of better quality than those taken. Some of the family said not to tell of the kinship with these outlaws. The James and Youngers were perfect gentlemen while staying at the family home.
Tenney was born in 1868, they came to TX in 1872. If she was on Jesse's lap that was before age 10 so from 1872 to 1878 Jesse came to Bastrop.
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