Revisiting Joseph's Children

Yesterday I shared a photo of my 3rd-great-grandfather, Joseph Jones. While I knew his general appearance from the description in his Civil War pension file, I hadn't run across a photo. I'll now take a step back and explain how I stumbled across the photo in the first place.

I knew Joseph had moved from Jefferson County, Tennessee to Boone County, Indiana with several of his siblings and children sometime before 1880, and then later returned to Blount County, Tennessee before June 1890. Some of those siblings and children opted to stay in Indiana. Several of them continued west, moving to Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Of the five children of Joseph and Mary Catherine Green Jones, I knew where four of them had settled. I had a gap on second daughter, Mary Jane Jones.

On a hunch I tried searching again on FamilySearch, hoping that perhaps Mary returned to Blount County, Tennessee with her father Joseph in the 1890s. Sure enough, I found her, listed as "Mrs. Ed Scott" in the Tennessee Death Records, with parents Joe Jones and Mary Green. This opened the door to an entry which had a photo for Ed Scott, and then photos for Mary Jane "Mollie" Jones, and her father Joseph.

Mary Jane "Mollie" Jones

Source: E. Sweetland. Mary Jane Jones.

According to Joseph's Civil War pension file, Mollie was born on 16 December 1858. Other documents show her date of birth as 16 December 1859. She appears in the 1860 US Census in Jefferson County, Tennessee. I'm inclined to think the 1858 year is correct, and the 1870 US Census entry also supports this. By 1880, she had moved with the family to Sugar Creek, Boone County, Indiana. Mollie returned to Tennessee with her parents in 1890, and after the death of her mother in September 1890, she married Ed Scott in Blount County on 25 February 1891.

The family appears in the 1900 US Census in Blount County, Tennessee. She also appears in the 1910 and 1920 US Census.

Ancestry. 1900 US Census. Blount County, Tennessee.

Ed and Mollie had the following children:

- Maude Scott

- Zola Mae Scott

- Johnny Scott

Mollie passed away on 16 December 1925 in Maryville, Tennessee.

Martha Elizabeth "Mattie" Jones

The first child of Joseph and Mary Catherine was Martha Elizabeth Jones, also known as Mattie. She was born on 13 November 1856 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Martha moved with the family to Boone County, Indiana, where she met and married Joshua W. Barker on 22 March 1881.

Source: FamilySearch, Indiana Marriages.

Joshua and Mattie had at least the following children:

- Festus Elmer Barker

- Myrtle Barker

- Joseph Wilson Barker

- Iva Barker

- Horace McTeer Barker

The family moved from Boone County to Garfield County, Oklahoma, where they appear in the 1900 US Census, living next door to younger brother Marion C. Jones and his family, as well as younger sister Nancy Cornelia Jones and her family.

Ancestry. 1900 US Census, Garfield County, Oklahoma.

Marion Jones, and his brother-in-law Robert O. Snoddy, filed land patents for their property in Garfield County. I'll have more on those two in a subsequent post.

By 1910, the Barker family had relocated to Kay County, Oklahoma. Joshua died in November 1910. Mattie remained in Kay County, where she died on 3 February 1933.

Thomas Robert Jones

I have previously covered my 2nd-great-grandfather Thomas Robert Jones on the blog, sharing his marriage record from Boone County, Indiana and a photo of his tombstone. Thomas and family remained in Indiana while his siblings ventured west or returned to Tennessee.

My next posts will cover Thomas' younger siblings, Marion Columbus Jones and Nancy Cornelia Jones.

Inherited Traits

 

Source: E. Sweetland. Joseph Jones.

While trying to fill in research gaps on my Jones line, I stumbled into a tree on Ancestry with a photo of my 3rd-great-grandfather Joseph Jones. There's a clear resemblance to Joseph's children, Thomas Robert Jones and Sarah Jones, whose photos can be found on my post from 18 August 2015. This photo is such a cool find and I'm very grateful to run across it.

There's definitely the same eyes with my Dad, in this photo from May 2015.

Keith D. Jones, May 2015.

For the next posts, I need to revisit the children of Joseph and Mary Catherine Green Jones.

Ten Years on the Blog

I'm a bit surprised, but on Saturday I passed the ten year milestone with this humble family history blog. 1966 posts and thousands of pages later, I am still adding to the family stories of those directly related to me or in some cases interestingly adjacent. Google says I've had 313,140 page views, which seems pretty crazy.

This has been an outlet for sharing bits of history, and sometimes photos of my travels. I had no idea of the direction this blog would take when I started this back on 22 January 2012, but I've enjoyed sharing the research, stories and photos along the way.

I have some new finds to bring to the blog in the near future, and hopefully will keep uncovering new stories and connections for many more years to come.

Returning from the Surf

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Santa Monica, 6 Jan 2022.

Winter in Sharpes

Finding references to Ella Garner Taylor's home in Sharpes, Florida led to another set of news clippings which provide some color to the time spent escaping the New Jersey winter. Several of these also mention Ella's "charming daughter" Luella, who would have been in her early-mid 40s, enjoying several months a year in Florida while her husband William was traveling to film motion pictures. 

Florida Today (Cocoa, FL), 17 Mar 1921

The summer picnic mentioned above would have been just before Luella and William departed New York for Europe.

Florida Today, 1 Mar 1923

Florida Today, 31 May 1923

Florida Today, 25 Oct 1923

The clipping above provides a bit more detail about the wealth enjoyed by Ella Taylor in her later years. She made the journey from New Jersey to Florida (near Cocoa, Florida and the modern day Kennedy Space Center) in a new Cadillac.

Florida Today, 17 Jan 1924

This article shows that Ella was visited by the family of her older brother Charles E. Garner (not Gaines as above). Mrs. W. P. Smith would have been May Garner Smith, Mrs. C. E. Garner would have been Katherine Garner. Ella's brother Charles had died in 1915.

Florida Today, 9 Oct 1924

Florida Today, 6 Nov 1924

Florida Today, 16 Apr 1925

Florida Today, 5 Nov 1925

Ella returned to Sharpes again in September 1926 and winter 1927. She traveled north to Keansburg in April 1928, presumably for the last time before her death in 1930. Luella and William visited friends in Sharpes over Thanksgiving 1934.

Florida Today, 22 Nov 1934