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Hite was shot to death on December 4, 1881, in Ray County, Missouri, by Dick Liddil and Robert Ford, also members of the James-Younger Gang. All three were staying at the house of Martha Bolton, Ford's widowed sister. [2] Hite and Liddil were both attracted to Martha, and clashed over their rivalry.
Robert Woodson Hite, better known as Wood Hite, was the first cousin of Frank and Jesse James and became an outlaw member of the James Gang. Hite was born in 1850 in Logan, Kentucky, to Major George Burns and Nancy James Gardner Hite. His mother was the sister of Robert Sallee James, Frank and Jesse’s father.
In November 1881, Liddil and Wood Hite, a first cousin of the James brothers, became engaged in a shootout outside Adairville, Kentucky, though neither man was shot. Liddil and Bob Ford killed Hite later that year, and Liddil was wounded in the fight.
Dec 3, 2022 · The dispute led to a gunfight between the two in 1882, during which a man by the name of Robert Ford (played by Casey Affleck) killed Hite. According to Wild West magazine:
Oct 19, 2006 · Up in Minnesota, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell (alias Bill Stiles) and Charlie Pitts (alias Sam Wells) were killed, while brothers Cole, Jim and Bob Younger were wounded, captured and imprisoned for a quarter of a century in the state penitentiary.
Mar 8, 2007 · About a week later, Liddil put together another sub-gang consisting of himself, Jesse’s cousin Wood Hite, and Bob and Charlie Ford. On Thursday evening, August 25, they robbed a man with a wagon of $20 to $30 halfway between Lexington and the railroad junction at North Lexington.
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Dec 8, 2022 · After the killing of Wood Hite, Dick Liddil nurses his leg wound at Martha Bolton’s house and frets about his situation. After all, he has just killed Jesse James’ cousin! About three weeks later, on December 29, Jesse and Charley Ford arrive at the Bolton cabin.
