Thomas JONES Russell T JONES Sarah Anne BEASLEY Mini tree diagram

Russell T JONES2,2,1,2

17451 - 18271

Life History

1745

Born.1

about 1770

Birth of son Thomas JONES.2

1785

Birth of son Russell T JONES in Virginia.1

1808

Death of Sarah Anne BEASLEY.1

1827

Died.1

Other facts

 

Married Sarah Anne BEASLEY

Notes

  • "The really interesting Texas Jones descendants of Russell Sr. came down through Russell Jr., who married Sophia Harris and died suddenly of illness in San Felipe, Texas, in 1841. His son Augustus Harris, who arrived in Mexican Texas in 1835, escaped death at Goliad and the Alamo because he was off in the States raising money on Fannin's behalf for the Texian cause. Gus Jr., a cowman turn-of-the-century mayor of San Antonio, joined two other cattlemen to build the Saint Anthony, still a luxury hotel there. William Early Jones, a jurist who was hauled off to Mexico City in 1842 by General Woll while holding a commissioners court in San Antonio, became first editor of the San Antonio Express after distinguishing himself as an editor in Augusta, Georgia."
    --  James Jones, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, Aug 30, 2017

    "Another name in the will [of Drury Christian] jumped out at me: Joel T. Haley, related somehow to Margaret Connally Jones, married Thomas Jones's daughter Frances.  Their great niece Lucy Cline wrote a stunning description (in RootsWeb entry for Russell T. Jones Sr.) of the glory that once was the Thomas Jones home, with seven large fireplaces and chimneys, by Fort Lamar on Athens Road, Georgia Hwy 106, outside Danielsville, Madison County, Georgia.  Joel carved his 1802 birth date on top of the mantel in the front parlor.  There was a Joel T. Haley Jr., then the Third.  The family made it big in the grocery business in Chattanooga."
    --  James Jones, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 14 January 2018

    "Mary Polly, one of Thomas's sisters, married Gen. Allen Daniel.  This northern portion of Madison was once part of Franklin County, when Thomas's father, Russell T. Jones Sr., originally settled there.  During the Revolution, when he was in the NC Light Dragoons, the family lived in Wilkes County, North Carolina, after their original home in Albemarle County, Virginia, in the vicinity of Monticello and Charlottesville, became overrun with the British.  Russell was a bricklayer and building contractor as well as farmer.  Jefferson biographer Dumas Malone said Jones boys were clients of young attorney Thomas Jefferson but neglected to say which ones and why they needed legal representation."
    --  James Jones, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 20 January 2018

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