In a message dated 11/15/2006 1:10:04 PM Central Standard Time, FKeeton62@aol.com writes: > I finely found my book on Cullman AL. The woman was cripple and she wrote > > this book on Cullman in 1971 her name is Margaret Jean Jones. She is the > daughter of Shelmer B, and Alma Ruth Ford Jones. > 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. With the howl of wolves mingling with the ring of > his > axe, he built a cabin where the Vance farm is now located and set about > clearing > the forest of cropland.". There are some more Jones mention her book. > None that you mention in your list. Frances > >From Heritage of Jefferson County, Alabama: "The first settlers in Jones Valley were Devil John Jones and his brother-in-law Caleb Fryley who came in 1815. Jones built at the foot of Red Mountain and established Jonesboro (now Bessemer). Fryley settled at Bearmeat Cabin, now Blountsville. They built shacks, a blacksmith shop and blazed a wagon trail from Jonesboro up to Bearmeat Cabin, which became the Huntsville Pike. Thus they opened the way for others and Jones bequeathed his name to the Valley that was one day to be the site of Birmingham. James McAdory later resided at Jonesboro. Descendants of John Jones intermarried with his neighbors, the DeJarnette, Hawkins, Roebuck and Nabers families." In reference to the origin of the settlers there are three routes mentioned by which they came and after there is a paragraph which says: "Following these three routes North Carolinians, South Carolinians, Tennesseeans, Virginians and Georgians poured into the valleys of Blount County. The southern portion of Blount, where most of the South Carolinians lived, was cut off from the rest of the county in 1819 and named Jefferson." Barry Jernigan