James married Melverda Abigail Bates on 26 Jan 1865 in Itawamba Co, MS. Melverda (daughter of Henderson Wesley Bates and Eliza Elvira Jarratt Bourland) was born in 1841 in Van Buren, Itawamba Co, MS; died after 1918 in Curtis, Clark Co, AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]