First Generation--
Our Jones
ancestor may have been William Jones, a well-known (at the time)
colonial preacher from VA or NC. He or his ancestors may have
been from Wales before that; acc. to Jones tradition. One of
our ancestor’s great-grandsons was named after well-known
Methodist preacher Charles Wesley--not surprising because both
the Methodists and Baptists were very active in Kentucky in the
early 1800’s. This may be an indicator that the family was
Methodist. He came to Kentucky with a large family of children.
The only two I am sure of are Hugh and William Snelling. This
information was from Mildred Woznuk, in Hardinsburg, KY, a descendant
of Hugh Jones.
I found a probate record for a William Jones who died in Breckinridge
Co., in 1814. It is uncertain whether he may be our ancestor or not.
But he was:
William Jones, born probably between 1765 and 1770; died in Breckinridge
Co. shortly before Feb. 21, 1814; about 45 years old. Married Elizabeth,
born between 1765 and 1770; died after the 1830 census. In the probate
for William Jones, a James Jones and John Snelling were helping the widow
Elizabeth. James may have been a brother of William Sr. (see below).
The 1810 census shows a William Jones (and a Thomas, perhaps an older
brother to William S. and Hugh, as he had a number of small children),
with only one son between 10 and 16, three daughters between 16 and 26,
and he and his wife were between 26 and 45 years of age.
The 1820 census shows Elizabeth Jones with two sons between 16 and 26
years old (possibly William and Hugh, William was 19 then), and a daughter
between 16 and 26 years old. Elizabeth was over 45 years old. There was
also a James Jones in the 1820 census.
1. Hugh Jones,
born ca. 1798; died before 1850 census. Married (ca. 1825) Martha, born
ca. 1803. The 1830 census shows him between 30 and 40 years old. He had
two daughters under 5, his wife was between 20 and 30, and they had an
older woman living with them who was between 60 and 70 years old (probably
his mother Elizabeth).
After Hugh’s death, Martha married again, to Hezekiah Morton, a
widower, and father of the brothers that married William Snelling Jones’ daugthers.
2. William Snelling Jones,
born March 7, 1801, in KY; died Aug. 6, 1853, in Breckinridge Co., KY;
52 years old. Married Susannah Carter.
5. ?Peggy Jones,
b. ca. 1787. Married (March 2, 1807, Breckenridge Co., KY) Benjamin Snelling.
Father was William Jones.
6. ?Susan Luverina Jones, married (July
26, 1805, in Breckinridge Co., KY) William Crume.
The next two are unknowns--they appear too young to be daughters
of William Jones, but they don’t fit in William Snelling’s
family. There was another William Jones in the 1820 census, with two
daughters between the ages of 10 and 16--this may be them. Or perhaps
they actually were younger sisters of William S.--Elizabeth would have
been about 50 when they were born.
• ?Catherine S. Jones?,
born ca.1815. Married (Dec. 14, 1839, in Breckenridge Co., KY) Thomas
S. Moorman. The bride’s father was William B. Jones, and witness
was James W. Jones.
• ?Elizabeth Ann Jones?,
born ca. 1818. Married (Nov. 29, 1842, in Breckinridge Co., KY) Christopher
W. Board. Father was William B. Jones. Could they be the parents of Sarah
J. Board, "Jennie," born 1853, who was the second wife of Mason
Long Jones, below?
Second Generation--
William Snelling Jones, born March 7, 1801, in KY; died Aug. 6,
1853; 52 years old. Married (ca. 1820) Susannah Carter, born
March 13, 1795, in Maryland; died March 27, 1854; 59 years old.
They were buried in the Morton Cemetery in Breckenridge Co.,
KY--on Hwy. 261 east of the intersection with Hwy. 629--it is
on a farm that was for many years in the Morton family, Randy & I
were unable to find the cemetery when we were there in 1994.
The 1850 census says that he was a farmer, and gives the value
of his posessions as $500. It also gives Maryland as Susannah’s
birthplace.
We believe that William’s father was William Jones, a well-known
preacher from Virginia or North Carolina. If so, the 1800 tax lists show
they were already living in Ohio Co. when William was born. (On March
2, 1807, Peggy Jones--who was probably his older sister--married Benjamin
Snelling in Breckenridge Co. John Snelling was aiding Elizabeth with
the probate of her husband William. William Snelling was apparently given
his middle name in honor of some friend or relative, as there were a
family of Snellings in Breckenridge Co.)
At the time of the 1830 census, Wm. S. is shown with one boy and one
girl under 5, one boy and one girl between 5 and 10, he and Susannah
were between 20 and 30 years of age.
Henry O. Morton and Lester L. Morton, William and Susannah’s sons-in-law,
were listed as heirs in William S.’s probate.
1. Mary Ann Jones,
born Aug. 11, 1821. Married (Feb. 28, 1843, in Breckenridge Co., KY)
Henry Owen Morton, born May 21, 1821, in VT; died Aug. 11, 1890; 69 years
old. They were buried in the Morton cemetery, near her parents, as were
several of their children. The markers give Henry and Mary’s birth
years as 1821, but the census indicates it would have been 1831. The
date of Mary Ann’s death was not on her stone. They lived in Breckinridge
Co. at the time of the 1850 census, near her parents. Notice that their
fourth and fifth children died withing days of each other--there may
have been some epidemic at the time to which small children were especially
susceptible.
2. Henry Franses Jones,
born Sept. 16,1823; died sometime after the 1830 census --not mentioned
in his father’s will.
3. Elizabeth Jones,
born March 22, 1826 (1825, acc. to her grave); died Feb. 18, 1893; 67
years old. Married (ca. 1851) Lester L. Morton, brother of Henry, above,
born March 26, 1824, in VT; died May 19, 1862; 38 years old. Both were
buried in the Morton cemetery, near her parents.
The 1850 census shows Lester married to Lucy A. (who was four years older
than him, and also born in Vermont), with no children. However, apparently
by 1852, (according to a child’s birth listed in the IGI records)
she died, and Lester married his sister-in-law Elizabeth. They had a
number of children.
4. William Washington Jones,
born Sept. 26, 1828; died Dec. 10, 1905; 77 years old. Married Martha C. Cooper (sister of Mary Ellen who married Mason, #6), born
1831; died 1900; 69 years old.
5. James McDowell Jones,
born March 8, 1831. May have married (April 22, 1845, in Breckinridge
Co., KY) Mary B. Dowell. James was appointed executor of his father’s
estate, and took the responsibility to care for his mother after the
death of his father.
6. Richard Jones, born ca. 1833. May have died in infancy--not
mentioned in his father’s will.
7. Mason Long Jones,
born Jan. 13, 1835; died Jan. 25, 1916; 81 years old. Married Mary Ellen
Cooper.
Third Generation--
Mason Long Jones, born Jan. 13, 1835, in Breckinridge Co., KY; died
Jan. 25, 1916, in Ohio Co., KY; 81 years old. Married (Dec. 3,
1856, in Breckenridge Co., KY) Mary Ellen Cooper, born Jan. 6, 1835; died Nov. 10, 1880; 45 years
old. They had eight children. I have been unable to find where
Mary Ellen was buried.
Second marriage (June 29, 1882), Sarah J. Board, "Jennie," born
June 21, 1853; died Dec. 11, 1912; 59 years old. They had one daughter.
Mason and Jennie were buried together in the Fordsville Cemetery.
1. Sarah Anna Jones,
born Oct. 12, 1857; died April 14, 1908; 50 years old. Married John Gardiner
Truman. President Harry Truman was our distant cousin by marriage--John’s
uncle (Anderson Shipp Truman) was the grandfather of Harry Truman--that
is, Harry Truman was John’s first cousin once removed. The had moved
to Kansas by 1884.
2. William Joseph Jones,
born Aug. 28, 1859; died May 15, 1941; 81 years old. Married (Nov. 3,
1882) Nannie Wilson. They had one son. William was a clothing manufacturer
in Louisville, and quite wealthy.
Second marriage, Minerva Hunter, "Minnie," born Feb. 1862;
died Feb. 10, 1939; 77 years old. They also had one son.
3. Charles Timolean Jones,
"Tim," born Aug. 7, 1861; died July 24, 1917, in Pierce, Weld
Co., CO; 56 years old. Married (Nov. 6, 1882, in Fordsville, KY) Amanda Jane Roberts, (sister of Alice, who married Jacob Carl, #4 below),
born Jan. 12, 1857; died Dec. 21, 1949, in Denver, CO; 92 years old. Both
were buried in the cemetery in Eaton, CO. The family left Fordsville and
moved to Dover, CO, in 1904. Jacob Carl is our great-grandfather, so his
brother’s children are our cousins. Alice Roberts Jones, is our great-grandmother,
and her sister’s children would also be our cousins. It so happens
that her sister married her brother-in-law, so that makes their children
twice our cousins, or our "double cousins", as Marge used to
say.
4. Jacob Carl Jones,
"Jake," born May 22, 1864; died June 12, 1915; 51 years old.
Married Alice Roberts, sister of Amanda Jane, above.
5. Elijah Roscoe Jones,
born Sept. 9, 1866; died June 26, 1955; 88 years old. Married (Dec. 23,
1888) Sarah Elizabeth Eskridge, born Dec. 23, 1866; died Dec. 7, 1954;
88 years old. They are both buried in the Fordsville Cemetery. They had
11 children.
6. Lenora Catherine Jones,
born May 2, 1869. Married (April 29, 1890) Henry Acker, born Dec. 25,
1863, in Wachenheim, Germany; died Sept. 13, 1943; 80 years old. They
lived in Tryon, NC.
8. Effie Lillian Jones,
born June 3, 1873; died April 20, 1936; 59 years old. Married (Feb. 10,
1890) James L. Ball, "Jim". They had several children, the
oldest of whom were born in Kentucky. They moved then to Iowa.
7. Archie Clifton Jones,
"Arch," born Feb. 14, 1877; died Feb. 24, 1926; 59 years old.
Married Sally Joe Cooper, born June 27, 1876; died Nov. 18, 1948; 71 years
old. She was a cousin, on his mother’s side. They owned the old Jones
farm, which is northeast of Fordsville on 261. The area used to be called
Jones Station, and is now known as Oaks.
•by Jenny:
1. Myrtle C. Jones,
born Aug. 13, 1883; died 1949 of cancer; 66 years old. Married (March
3, 1901) Roy Armendt.
They separated when the children were young. She was a school teacher
as long as she lived.
Fourth Generation--
Jacob Carl Jones, "Jake," born May 22, 1864, in Fordsville,
Ohio Co., KY; died June 12, 1915, of gall bladder trouble, in
LaPorte, CO; 51 years old. Married Alice Gertrude Roberts, born Dec. 17, 1863, in Fordsville, Ohio
Co., KY; died Jan. 14, 1934, of ruptured gall bladder, in Ft.
Collins, CO; 70 years old. Jake was a barber, and had a grocery
store. He and brother Tim fought a forest fire near Fordsville.
As a result of smoke inhalation, one of Jake’s lungs collapsed.
The Jones family home was lost in the fire, and they moved then
to Jones, a small settlement just south of Fordsville, just before
our Charlie’s birth. Later, he and Tim moved their families
to Colorado. They homesteaded in Pierce, CO, ca. 1904. Both were
buried in Wellington, CO. This "Grandma Jones" smoked
a corncob pipe!
Alice married (1918) William Herman Goodman after Jake died.
1. Ella Martha Jones,
born Jan. 15, 1886, in Fordsville, KY; died Oct. 18, 1979, in Casper,
WY; 93 years old. Married (Jan. 15, 1907) Gillespie Blaine Jones, "Blaine," born
Oct. 21, 1884, in Asheville, NC; died May 4, 1949, in Salt Lake City,
UT; 64 years old. His parents were John Harvey Jones and Mary Williams.
Both were buried in Pomona, CA.
2. Jennie Jones,
born Jan. 21, 1887; died April 1, 1891; four years old. She is buried
in the old Haynes Cemetery.
3. Clarence George Jones,
born April 4, 1888, in Fordsville, Ohio Co., KY; died Sept. 28, 1961;
73 years old. Married (Nov. 28, 1907, in Wellington, CO) Lessie Maudrie
Johnson, born Jan. 7, 1890, in Benton, Ark; died Jan. 22, 1980; 90 years
old. Both were buried in Crest Lawn Memorial Park, in Norco, CA.
4. Sarah Lula Jones,
"Aunt Lula," born Nov. 14, 1889, in Fordsville, Ohio Co., KY;
died Feb. 16, 1960, in CO; 70 years old. Married (Jan. 13, 1907, in Ft.
Collins, CO) Spencer Lincoln Conley, born Dec. 10, 1886, in Des Moines,
IA; died Dec. 30, 1960, in Ft. Collins; 74 years old. Both were buried
in Highland Cemetery in Wellington, CO.
5. Grace Jones,
born Sept. 4, 1891; died Jan. 24, 1893; 16 months old. She is buried
in the old Haynes Cemetery.
6. Charles William Jones,
born Dec. 16, 1892, in Jones, Ohio Co., KY; died March 26, 1976; 85 years
old. Married Alice Mary McMullen.
7. Mason Jones,
born Aug. 20, 1895; died Dec. 22, 1896; 16 months old. He is buried in
the old Haynes Cemetery east of Fordsville.
Our visit to Fordsville, May 1994
Fifth Generation--
Charles William Jones, born Dec. 16, 1892, in Jones, Ohio Co.,
KY; died March 26, 1976, in Pomona, CA; 83 years old. A forest
fire burned Jake Jones’ home in Fordsville, and the family
moved to Jones shortly after. According to some of the Jones
cousins who have visited there, the Jones and Roberts family
cemetery is located on a hilltop just south of Fordsville. Jones,
where the family settled, was just down the hill from the cemetery
to the south.
Married (Aug. 27, 1919) Alice Mary McMullen, born Aug. 21, 1898, in Hebron, IA; died Oct. 25,
1996, in Carmichael, CA; 98 years old. They had five children.
1. Marjorie June Jones,
"Marge," born June 22, 1920, in Pierce, CO. Married Elie Ellis
Turner.
2. Francis Evelyn Jones,
born Oct. 6, 1921, in Pierce, CO; died Feb. 7, 1923; 16 months old. Died
from diptheria. Buried in Eaton Cemetery, in CO.
3. Imogene Jones,
"Jeane," born July 6, 1923, in Laramie, WY; died May 31, 1995;
68 years old. Married (Jan. 11, 1948, in Pomona, CA) Ralph Lere, born Aug.
7, 1924; died Aug. 5, 1961; 37 years old. Another Edison man, he fell to
his death when helping in the building of Dodger Stadium in L.A.
Second marriage (Apr. 26, 1964) Leonard Liston, born June 25, 1916; died
Sept. 21, 1970; 53 years old. He died at his desk of heart failure. He
worked for TI Insurance Trust Company.
4. Helen Marie Jones,
born Feb. 8, 1925, in Laramie, WY; died Aug. 22, 1995; 70 years old.
Married first (June 1942) Ruben Williams. They had one child, George
Edwin, and were divorced in 1944.
Married (April 6, 1946) Vernon Edward McKinney, "Mac," but
his own family always called him "Buck". He was born Aug. 23,
1910, in Weippe (pronounced "Wee-ipe"), Idaho; died June 22,
1987; 77 years old. Mac had his own construction business, McKinney Hole
Digging Company. Helen worked with AA, helping people win their battle
against alcohol with the Lord’s help.
5. Charles Raymond Jones,
"Ray," born in Laramie, WY. Married Mary Agnes Graham, "Babe".
Her father was born in Scotland in 1898. Ray had his own insurance agency
until his retirement in 1986.
Sixth Generation--
Marjorie June Jones, "Marge," born June 22, 1920, in Pierce,
Weld Co., CO; died Dec. 8, 1992, in Ashland, OR, of kidney failure;
72 years old. Married first (Oct. 6, 1939) Blaine Brown Moffat.
They had one child, Janice, and were divorced in 1942.
Marge later married (March 21, 1947, in Boulder City, NV) Elie Ellis Turner, born Nov. 25, 1915; died May 20, 1971; 56 years
old. He adopted Janice (1959) as his own daughter, and they had two sons.
Elie was district superintendant for Edison in Lake Arrowhead, CA, until
his sudden death. He died of a brain aneurysm.
Marge later married (March 22,1976) Edward James Beck, born Aug. 28,
1921; died Feb. 23, 1977, in Portland, OR; 55 years old. Marge and Ed
were truckers together until he died of a heart attack at the wheel of
his truck.
1. Janice Kay Moffat Turner,
born April 20, 1941. Married (1962) David Stanley Curran, born March
19, 1942. They had three children, and were later divorced.
2. Stephen Ellis Turner,
"Steve," born April 25, 1948. Married (Oct. 24, 1970) Carol
Marie Miller, born April 12, 1950. They have two sons. Steve retired
from SC Edison in Rialto, CA. Steve & Carol divorced in 1998.
3. Randall Lee Turner,
"Randy," born June 27, 1950 in Pomona, CA. Married (July
14, 1973) Peggy McLemore. They divorced, had no children.
Second marriage (April 7, 1979, in Van Nuys, CA) Pauline Ruth Jost, "Polli," born Feb. 23, 1953, in Banning, CA. Polli
is a homemaker, and doing the family genealogies in her spare (?) time.
Sources:
Family information
Mildred Woznuk (now deceased), of Hardinsburg, KY
March 29, 2025
Polli Turner
