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• Georgia, Compiled Marriages, 1754-1850
  Augustus A [H] Jones
  Spouse Ann R Randle
  Marriage 8 Oct 1839 Jackson County, Georgia
  
  The 1850 census, which reports what appears to be the wife of Augustus H Jones as Ann Randle, age 26, or born about 1824.  That means they would have married when she was only about 15!
  
  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 [Jones], 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
  
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  Augustus Harris Jones came to Texas with his father and brothers, with a group called The Georgia Volunteers. Augustus was a personal friend of Col. James Fannin of the Texas Army. Augustus enlisted in the Matagorda volunteers on October 1, 1835, and he accompanied Mag [Major?] Ira Westover in the Lipantitllan Expedition October 30, 1835. He fought in the first battle of Goliad at Colita Creek with Fannin.
  
  Later Augustus went to San Antonio and was in the seige of Bexar, December 1835 where Ben Milam was killed. Then Col. Fannin sent Agustus to the United States to raise funds and enlist men for the Texas forces, and was in the United States when the Alamo fell.
  
  Augustus became Brig. General in the Texas Militia, and fought with Zachary Taylor in the war with Mexico, 1846/1848. He was a congressman in the house of the 9th congress in 1844/1845.
  --  Mark Stickels, http://www.mark.stickels.org/FamilyTree2/Jones-AugustusH.html
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  1850 Federal Census, Gonzales County, Texas, 2 November, Peach Creek, p 650, Hse/Fam #15
  Augustus H Jones 39 M (No Occup Reported) $4000 b Georgia [b abt 1811]
  Ann R Jones 26  F b Tennessee [b abt 1824]
  Wm Jones 9 M b Texas [b abt 1841]
  James Jones 5 M b Texas [b abt 1845]
  Sophia Jones 3 F b Texas [b abt 1847]
  Augustus Jones 1mo M b Texas [b abt 1841]
  Sophia Jones 60 F b Georgia [b abt 1790]
  Barry G Anderson 5 M b Texas [b abt 1845]
  A J Berton 21 M b Texas [b abt 1829]
  Joshua Thredgill 42 M b South Carolina [b abt 1808]
  
  Augustus' widowed mother is in his household and two doors away is his brother Russell.  The age of the oldest chidl, William, would put his birth a couple of years after his parents married.
  
  Next door on the other side is another brother, reported here as I G Jones, Isham Green Jones.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gonzales County, Texas, 2 November, Peach Creek, p 650, Hse/Fam #13
  Russel Jones 29 M Merchant $5000 b Georgia [b abt 1821]
  Margaret Jones 26  F b Missouri [b abt 1824]
  Mary C 4 F b Texas [b abt 1846]
  Ann M 2 F b Texas [b abt 1846]
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gonzales County, Texas, 2 November, Peach Creek, p 650, Hse/Fam #16
  I G Jones 26 M (No Occup Reported) $4000 b Georgia [b abt 1824]
  M Jones 20 F b Ttexas [b abt 1830]
  Charles Jones 5 M b Texas [b abt 1845]
  Dewitt Jones 1 M b Texas [b abt 1849]
  Henry Stevens 21 M b NC [b abt 1829]
  
  U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
  Augustus H Jones
  [no birth info on Augustus]
  Spouse Julia Ann Hatchett
  Spouse Birth 1833 GA
  Marriage Year 1853
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
  Augustus H Jones
  Julia A Hatchett
  Marriage 31 May 1853 Gonzales, Texas, United States
  
  It seems that Julia died before very long, since we find a marriage record in 1856 to widow Minerva (Lewis) Hudson.
  
  Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1977
  Augustus H Jones
  Marriage 13 Nov 1856 Gonzales, Texas, United States
  Minerva Hudson
  
  A DAR application for Sue Jones reported Minerva Lewis, born 1828, as the mother of Sue Jones.  Thus Sue was born in 1857 or later.
  
  Daughters of the American Revolution
  Sue Jones Houston
  Born in Gonzales County, Texas
  Descendant of Walton Harris and Buckner Harris
  Daughter of Augustus Harris Jones (1812-77) and Minerva Lewis (b 1828), his wife
  Granddaughter of Russell Jones and Sophia Harris, his wife
  Gr-granddaughter of Buckner Harris and Nancy Early, his wife
  Membership #81124, See #81119
  Lineage Book of Charter Members, Vol 82, p 46
  
  Another researcher has a photo and story of he family burial place around a big tree on their Texas land.
  
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  China Grove Cemetery est. 1843
  
  Seven members of the Jones family and German immigrant Heinrich Monken are interred here. After participating in the Texas Revolution in 1836, Augustus Harris Jones migrated his family from Georgia to establish plantations and peach orchards at this site. Although Augustus was buried here amongst his loved ones upon his death in 1877, his third wife had his remains moved to the IOOF Cemetery in Gonzales at a later date. Buried here is Augustus’ mother Sophia Harris 1793-1852, his first wife Ann Roseanna Randle 1824-1851, their daughters Laura 1843-1844 and Emily 1845-1845, their sons Augustus Harris, Jr 1850-1852 and Isham Green 1824-1867, Augustus’ second wife Julia Hatchett 1833-1854 and German immigrant Heinrich Monken d 1846.
  --  "isaidso936," Ancestry Photo Comment, 10 Mar 2014
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  Capt Augustus Harris "Gus" Jones, Sr
  Birth 1812 Jackson County, Georgia, USA
  Death 1877
  
  Spouses:
  Carrie L Jones [?  When could he have married a fourth wife? I thought this was a child]
  Ann Roseanna Randle Jones (1824 - 1851)
  Julia Ann Hatchett Jones (1833 - 1854)
  Minerva Ann Lewis Jones (1828 - 1915)
  
  Children:
  William Early Jones (1842 - 1900)
  James Cunningham Jones (1843 - 1882)
  Sophie Jones Allen (1848 - 1936)
  Charles Randle Jones (1851 - 1881)
  Augustus Harris Jones (1859 - 1913)
  Zula Lee Jones (1863 - 1954)
  Kate Lynch Jones (1865 - 1941)
  Sue Lewis Jones Houston (1867 - 1951)
  
  Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, Gonzales, Gonzales County, Texas, USA
  
  Created by M L Jan 05, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #63788098, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63788098/augustus-jones
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Sources

• 1. Daughters of the American Revolution
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, Gonzales County, Texas
  • 2 November, Peach Creek, p 650, Hse/Fam #15
• 3. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 4. Ancestry Comments
• 5. Ancestry Messaging
• 6. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
• 7. Georgia, Compiled Marriages, 1754-1850
• 8. Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1977
• 9. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982