This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hV.2ADE/1627.1.2 Message Board Post: Well, you have found a living and breathing Jones descendant! My great-grandfather was William Thomas Jones, born in Cartersville, GA in 1862. My grandmother was Mary Victoria Jones, one of his eight children. How do you fit into this family? I couldn't really tell by your message posting. William and Margaret Manning's other children were: Rufus Clemency, Etta Luennia, Robert William, James Richard, Lula Isabel, Lela Mae (Lula and Lela were twins), and Thomas Chesley. Chesley was the blind fiddle player, and was quite good, but mostly played around taverns around Coal Hill and Altus. The only ones that I remember and knew were Lula and Etta. Etta and my grandmother Mary were widowed fairly early and lived out the rest of their lives together, even going to the rest home together. Lula was a chain smoker and drank Cokes constantly - quite different from my very devoted Christian grandmother. I can tell you all of the stories that I know, and perhaps you could fill me in on some that I don't know. Mary (my grandmother) married Samuel Joseph Barnett, also from GA, but they met and married in Knoxville. They are both buried at the Coal Hill Cemetery, as is Chesley and Etta, two that I know of for certain. I was at the cemetery not long ago and took pictures of the headstones - I would be glad to send along copies to you. Where do you live? I am in Springdale, AR, but was raised in Fort Smith, AR. My dad was Luther Barnett, who died six years ago. I have one surviving aunt, Mary Margaret Barnett Edwards, who is sister to my dad and daughter of Mary Victoria Jones. I will anxiously wait to hear from you! Regards, Cindy Barnett Weyer