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Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson.

by | Jan 1, 2004 | Inside History

Did Cole Younger have any children? I ask because a doctor in town comes into my barbershop and claims to be his great-grandson. Phil Thomas Downers Grove, Illinois The genealogy listed in Marley Brant’s book on the Youngers notes that Cole, Jim, Bob and John sired no children. If the doctor’s lineage traces back to one of the other Younger siblings (Henry and Bersheba Younger had nine other children), Cole would not be the doctor’s great-grandfather, but rather his great-granduncle


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