James Cornelius Kimes 
James Cornelius was born on May 19th, 1879 in , Crawford County, Arkansas, USA.1 James Cornelius' father was Thomas Henry Kimes and his mother was Alice Shipley. His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Franklin Shipley and Mary Sharp Lester. He had five brothers and a sister, named F. M., Joseph Lafayette, George Washington, Charles W., Benjamin Valentine and Dora Gertrude. He was the second oldest of the seven children. He died at the age of 49 on June 21st, 1928 in Bowlegs, Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA. He was buried in Gracelawn Cemetery, Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA.1 1 General Notes
Cornelius (Neely) Kimes was born the 19th of May, 1879 in Crawford, County, Arkansas. He married Lillie Mae Poe the 26th of October, 1902 in Crawford County, Arkansas. She was born the 20th of May, 1879 in Whitewater, Crawford County, Arkansas to Thomas Patrick Poe and Lucinda R. Coatney. Lillie Mae Poe was previously married to Robert Cluck. Robert Cluck was born in 1878 in Missouri to John Booker Cluck and Sarah Elizabeth LaRue. Robert and Lillie Mae were married the 7th of June, 1896 in Crawford County, Arkansas. Cornelius and Lillie had seven children two of whom became criminals. Lillie Mae died the 30th of May, 1927 in Bowlegs, Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA heartsick over her sons lives of crime. She died of cancer. Virginia remembers that she was so nervous and upset she couldn’t eat. Cornelius was killed the 21st of June, 1932 in Bowlegs, Seminole County, Oklahoma. He was shot by the police who mistook him for his son, Matt, while he was chopping wood. It is also said that he was killed when officers tried to arrest him for his complicity in the robberies committed by his sons. They are both buried in Gracelawn Cemetery, Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas.
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From Cindy "ckimes at mvillage dot com"
Some of your distant cousins report Cornelius Kimes's full name as James
Cornelius Kimes. And other spellings reported for BERTHA BORDARK
(Bozarth) are:
Bertha Bozath
Bertha Bordock
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Research of Anita Van Cleave
The following article was taken from The Heavener Ledger, Thursday, June 28, 1928, Page 2, Col. 3.
Kimes Boys' Father Killed at Bowlegs
Neiley Kimes shot by officers while resisting arrest on bootlegging charge
Another chapter was written Thursday in the Kimes family criminal history, when Neiley Kimes, father of George and Matthew Kimes was shot by an officer while resisting arrest at Bow Legs. The Southwest American had the following article regarding the killing in Friday morning's edition:
Neiley Kimes, father of George and Matthew Kimes, Oklahoma bandits, now in the state penitentiary at McAlester, was shot and killed late last Thursday near Bowlegs, an oil town, by Jack Sparks, Deputy sheriff of Seminole County.
Shaw Nelm, Jim Clinton and Sparks went to raid an establishment Kimes maintained near Bowlegs, after watching him for several days as a bootleg suspect.
As the officers approached, Kimes emerged from the building and raised an automatic to fire at Nelm, the deputies said. At the same time another man, who has not been identified, ran from the house and attacked Clinton with an axe.
Sparks fired, he says, as Kimes raised his gun to shoot Nelm, and then went to the assistance of Clinton. The man with the axe was captured, but refused to give his name, while a third man who ran from the house during the fighting, escaped.
Nellie and Jessie Kimes, who were at the home at the time of the shooting, were taken to Wewoka by the deputies, because they are said to have thrown glass fruit jars at the officers during the fight, but they were released later.
Kimes had been convicted and fined a few days ago by Justice of the Peace Cose of Bowlegs on a liquor charge. He had promised to return later and pay the fine, but had not kept his promise, and because of this deputies had secured a search warrant, intending to raid the Kimes place again and bring him in to pay the fine as well as search for liquor, they said.
Neiley Kimes, who was shot and killed by a deputy sheriff near Bowlegs, Thursday afternoon, left Van Buren, several months ago, following the death of his wife, who died May 31, 1927.
The parents of George and Matthew Kimes were residents of Van Buren durng the career of their sons as bank bandits. At the time of his mother's death, Matthew Kimes was a fugitive from justice. When he was captured several weeks later he declared that he was in Van Buren the night his mother died. A sister Nellie Kimes resides in Van Buren.
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Research of Anita Van Cleave
From The Seminole Producer
http://www.seminoleproducer.com/1938.htm
March 4, 1928
Nellie Kimes, pretty sister of the famed Kimes brothers bank robbers, is in jail in Holdenville charged with two other persons in the slaying of George Epperley, Hughes County farmer. Nellie moved to Sasakwa from Van Buren, Arkansas, when her mother died and her brothers were sent to prison. She has been working in oil field dance halls around Sasakwa, she told peace officers.
April 10, 1928
Nellie Kimes went to trial in Holdenville today, one of three charged with the death of a man beaten and stabbed to death east of Sasakwa.
June 24, 1928
C. Kimes, father of famous outlaw Matt Kimes was shot to death late yesterday at his home on Little River south of Bowlegs, Kimes is reported to have been resisting arrest.
June 25, 1928
Nellie and Jessie Kimes, daughters of Cornelius Kimes, father of Matt Kimes, watched as deputy sheriff Jake Sparks shot and killed Kimes on Little River south of Bowlegs yesterday. Both girls were at their father’s home when officers arrived. Kimes resisted the raid and was shot and killed. The girls threw fruit jars at the officers.
July 14, 1928
The Producer reported ouster charges will be filed against Grady Nelson, Brown Township constable who was involved with the recently discharged "dollar deputies."
Three of the "dollar deputies" may be charged with murder in the recent death of Cornelius Kimes, father of Matt Kimes. The Producer reported the elder Kimes was killed at his home south of Bowlegs recently when he resisted a raid on his home by the deputies.
July 17, 1928
Nellie Kimes went to Oklahoma City Monday. She will tell Edwin Dabney, attorney general, and W.O. Gordon, his assistant, who is investigating conditions in Seminole county, about the killing of her father, Cornelious Kimes by Jack Sparks, Shaw Nelms and Jim Clinton.
Nellie, a good looking girl of 17, low voiced and a bit crumpled after her recent experience, was located by Jake Sims, police chief Sunday.
Sims accompanied her to Oklahoma City and will be present at the hearing.
Nellie, after visiting an uncle near McAlester, and spending a day with her brothers at the penitentiary, returned to Seminole last Tuesday, but departed that night while officers searched for her, here and elsewhere in the state.
The girl is the most wanted person in Oklahoma. She was not wanted for crime, but to help clear up the shooting of here father by Jack Sparks, Shaw Nelms and Jim Clinton, one time Dollar Deputies.
Nellie witnessed the slaying of her father, but she refused to talk for publication.
Jack Sparks shot Cornelious Kimes down without warning or without provocation, according to witnesses, who told their story to Edwin Dabney, attorney general, and Home Bishop, county attorney, at Oklahoma City Monday.
"They shot him down like a mad dog," one witness was quoted as saying. Warrants were issued here Monday night by Homer Bishop, county attorney, for the arrest of Sparks, Shaw Nelms and Jim Clinton, charging them with the murder of Kimes.
The complaint was signed by Nellie Kimes, daughter of the dead man. The warrants were placed in the hands of J.A. Doyle, sheriff of Seminole county, with instructions to serve them at once
July 26, 1928
Jess Pollock, city police desk sergeant, was returning Nellie and Jesse Kimes from Ponca City to Seminole to testify in the shooting of the girl’s father. Pollock’s car, hitting a curve at top of a hill, turned over twice "spreading the occupants over the landscape." No one was seriously injured.
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1900 United States Census: Upper, Crawford, Arkansas; Roll: T623_56; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 49
Elkins Leander Head White Male Nov 1845 54 Married 32 1868 Virginia Virginia Virginia Upper, Crawford, Arkansas
Elkins Jane Wife White Female Apr 1848 52 Married 32 1868 Missouri Virginia South Carolina Upper, Crawford, Arkansas
Kimes Martha Mother-in-Law White Female Dec 1821 78 Widowed South Carolina South Carolina South Carolina Upper, Crawford, Arkansas
Kimes Cornelius Nephew White Male May 1879 21 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Upper, Crawford, Arkansas
1910 United States Census: Gatesville, Wagoner, Oklahoma; Roll: T624_1277; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 0240; Image: 210; FHL Number: 1375290.
59 Kimes Cornilius Head Male White 30 1880 Married Arkansas Missouri Arkansas
59 Kimes Lilly Wife Female White 30 1880 Married Arkansas West Virginia Arkansas
59 Kimes Sargl Son Male White 6 1904 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
59 Kimes Mathew Son Male White 5 1905 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
59 Kimes Lovie Daughter Female White 3 1907 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
59 Kimes Not Named Daughter Female White 1/12 abt 1910 Single Oklahoma Arkansas Arkansas
59 Cluck Olie Stepdaughter Female White 11 1899 Single Arkansas Texas Arkansas
1920 United States Census: Shannon, Creek, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1460; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 50; Image: 347
Kimes Corneilus Self (Head) Male White 40 abt 1880 Married Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
Kimes Lillie Wife Female White 40 abt 1880 Married Arkansas North Carolina Missouri
Kimes George Son Male White 15 abt 1905 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
Kimes Mathew Son Male White 15 abt 1905 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
Kimes Lovie Daughter Female White 13 abt 1907 Single Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
Kimes Nellie Daughter Female White 9 abt 1911 Single Oklahoma Arkansas Arkansas
Kimes Jessie Daughter Female White 4 abt 1916 Single Oklahoma Arkansas Arkansas
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.01 May 1852 in Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.30 Jan 1928 in Chester, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
- b.19 May 1879 in , Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.21 Jun 1928 in Bowlegs, Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA
- b.~ 1775 in probably Maryland, USA d.01 Feb 1820 in , Rhea County, Tennessee, USA
- b.01 Jan 1805 in , Sullivan County, Tennessee, USA d.26 Aug 1881 in Mulberry, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA
- b.1759 in Dunmore/Shenandoah County, Virginia d.25 Jan 1841 in Bledsoe County, Tennessee
- b.~ 1780 in , , Tennessee, USA d.15 Nov 1857 in , , Tennessee, USA
- b.~ 1750 d.< 1840 in , Greene County, Tennessee, USA
- b.09 Nov 1835 in , Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA d.18 Aug 1922 in Selma, Fresno County, California, USA
- b.1811 in During Oats Harvest in Tennessee, USA d.>19 Mar 1890 in , , Arkansas, USA
- b.20 May 1861 in , Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.07 Jun 1889 in , Tulare County, California, USA
- b.02 Oct 1840 in Cedarville, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA d.17 Dec 1908 in Selma, Fresno County, California, USA
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1 Find a Grave
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