In a message dated 11/15/2006 1:10:04 PM Central Standard Time, FKeeton62@aol.com writes: > She wrote a great article on Jones valley. I will try to give you some of > > the detail on Jones Chapel.The name who is credited with starting this area > is > a man name Turkeytail Jones, in 1812. Quoting from her book," In 1812, > shortly before the Creek Indian war, Turkey tail Jones migrated from > Jamestown , > Virginia to the Mississippi Territory where became impressed with the > remote > wilderness area that was soon destined to march through the pages of > history as Jones Chapel. I looked in the Virginia Historical Index and there is no reference to a Turkeytail Jones or a reference to Jones Chapel. There are tons of Jones's but not that name. James City, Virginia has very few records still surviving. Most date from after the Civil War indicating that most of the earlier ones were destroyed during the war? Does anyone have more on this person that could be checked? Dates, places, other family members' names? Particulary women with their maiden names? Several of Andrew Jacksons' soldiers during the Creek phase of the War of 1812 returned to Alabama and homesteaded Blount County part of which later became Jefferson County. I believe a large number of them were from the Carolinas but there may have been some from Virginia as well. Was this person a soldier with Andrew Jackson? Perhaps there are military records that could be checked? I have the book, Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama and I believe there is mention of the Jones family for which Jones Valley, Jefferson County, was named after. Perhaps there was a family connection? I'll see what that book says and post it here. Barry Jernigan