Notes for William Robert Jones
!US Census 1860 (25 June) Alabama, Morgan Co., Eastern Division, Roll M653_19, Sheet 26, Page 457B, House No. 189, Lines 15-19: Thos. Stuart (b. 1827 - 33 - in AL - Occ: Farmer - Property Value $400 + $638) married to Frances (b. 1836 - 24 - in TN). Children listed (born in AL) are: Mary J. (dau b. 1852 - 8); Sarah D. (dau b. 1857 - 3). ALSO LISTED is: Mary Jones (sister-in-law b. 1843 - 17 - in AL)
!Some Information from Ancestry.com web site: 1856, 27 Mar - Tishomingo, MS , William Sr. dies.
Court records tell how William Sr. died leaving all of the Jones children orphans. When William Jones Sr died the oldest son, Robert, was very ill. Robert was married and had two sons of his own, Addeson G. Jones and Robby E. Jones. Robert was the only Jones child old enough to be an administrator. Because he was so ill when his father died, Robert asked a friend to be the administrator of his father's estate and died two weeks later. The two oldest Jones girls, Sarah and Francis, were married and living in Alabama. Francis and her husband adopted the youngest child of Eleanor Brashears and William Jones, Mary. The children from the second marriage with Susan Green, were left with various relatives and we have no information them.
William Jr. was sixteen at the time of his father's death and had a guardian that put him to work on a farm. Another source says that William and Jesse Jones enlisted in the Civil War in 1861. William was killed in battle.(no mention of which one) This William was married prior to the Civil War and had two children, only one of which survived. His daughter was Sara Francis Jones."
There were several Sarahs in this family which made it very confusing. Robert Jones married a Sarah, William is said to have married a Sarah and his daughter was Sarah. To make matters worse some were also called "Sallie."
Jesse was only fourteen when his father died but found a guardian who saw potential in him and sent him to boarding school for two years. From this start Jesse grows to become an artist and journalist.
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