This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ethnic.natam.nations.choctaw.choctawnat/1350.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thanks very much for the info. Robert M. Jones was apparently quite wealthy. Owned a few plantations and several slaves. He was a business partner with my ggggrandfather, John Hobart Heald. They had several stores in the Indian territory and later had a business in New Orleans. Heald went bankrupt before the Civil War in large part because of the yellow fever which killed so many in New Orleans including clients who owed him money. Heald recovered tho' and did well eventually retiring near New York City in New Jersey.