The heirs of Thomas Jones

 

FamilySearch. Jefferson County, TN. Dec 1859.

Back in 2013, I ran across the settlement of the estate for my 5th-great-grandfather Thomas Jones. At the time, that involved painstakingly going page by page through image-only files on FamilySearch for Jefferson County, Tennessee. Now, new records are available through FamilySearch Labs' text search. Above is the top page of a chancery court record from 14 December 1859, naming the heirs of Thomas Jones. Some of these names I recognize as children and grandchildren of Thomas.

This document points to an earlier proceeding before the Jefferson County Court in June 1859 for the sale of land previously owned by Thomas Jones. The section below lists his heirs:

Miles Jones was a son of Thomas. The next few names were children of Robert Thomas Jones Sr (my 4th-great-grandfather): Emeline Jones, Joseph Jones, Adeline Jones, [Sarah] Melissa Jones, Mary Jones, Martin V. Jones, Catherine Jones Murray, Caroline Jones Newman, Elizabeth Jones Barbee. A few of the other names I recognize as children of Thomas Jones: Elizabeth Jones Henry (with husband Hugh Henry), Conway Jones, William Jones and Malinda Jones. 

The following names I do not yet recognize and will need to see how they connect to the Jones family:

- Minerva Jones

- A. J. Kerr and Catherine F. Kerr

- Nancy C. Kerr and Margaret Kerr

- Joel Johnson

- Joseph Wilcox and Nancy Wilcox

- Stephen Jones

- John Pearce and Bradley Pearce

- Mary Murphy

- Jane and Thomas Lynch

- James Fain, John W. Fain and Melinda Fain