Editing Kearney, Missouri (section)

==Notable person==
On September 5, 1847, [[Jesse James]] was born on the James farm, where his family resided to the northeast of the site on which Kearney would eventually be established. James formed the infamous [[James-Younger gang]] in 1866, which operated until the Younger brothers were captured in 1876. James formed a new gang in 1879 and continued until his death on April 3, 1882, when he was shot by fellow gang-member [[Robert Ford (outlaw)|Robert Ford]]. He was buried on his farm, but now rests in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Kearney.<ref name="Mitochondrial results">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Stone.JFS.2001.pdf 
 |title=Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of the Presumptive Remains of Jesse James 
 |publisher=Journal of Forensic Sciences 
 |year=2009 
 |access-date=2009-11-30 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091211054400/http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/pdf/Stone.JFS.2001.pdf 
 |archive-date=2009-12-11 
}}</ref>