This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: JONES, WALKER, MITCHELL, PICKETT, COYLE, CARMICKLE, HOUSTON, MAYNARD, SUMMERS, ETC. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QV.2ADI/570.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you, I really appreciate any help on this line. G.W. JONES is my great grandfather, but he died when my father was just a boy. My father was the next to the oldest of 13 or 14 children, so, the others really don't remember anything about the man or where he came from. I really think that there is some connection in Independence County though. Family legend has it that G.W. traveled back to AR from TX by river boat. He and Edgar got off near Blythesville and walked to Independence County to stay with family. 1910 Census shows that G.W. was born in AR as where his parents. This would put the family in AR at last into the 1850's, I suspect.