Carol, Any clues where Henry Clay Jones was from? Michelle Carol McCoy wrote: > All my life, my dad talked about his being descended from a Sac and Fox > chief. If he were still living, I think he would have been amused > by my discovery that in actuality, my dad was a *step-descendant* not > of a Sac and Fox chief, but of a very generous and good man named > Henry Clay JONES, a half Sac and Fox who was the interpreter for the > Sac and Fox tribe at Prague, OK. > > My dad didn't have the facts, but his mother, my grandmother, flat out > fabricated a story to hide the truth about her father's birth. She > started researching her genealogy back in the '60's and she told about > her grandmother eloping with a young man named Marshall Field who > was from a wealthy family. Both families disapproved of the marriage > so her brother locked her in her room while the groom's parents whisked > him away. The so-called annullment ended in the birth of my > grgrandfather, and later his mother Sarah PENNY married the half > Sac and Fox Henry Clay JONES who adopted my grgrandfather Edwin Fenton > JONES. I've searched and searched, but I find no records or mention > of a Marshall Field living in Shawnee Co KS. My grandmother, bless > her heart, just didn't like the truth that her father was illegimate. > > Interestingly enough, I discovered a JONES cousin who is a direct > descendant of Henry JONES, and this *cousin's* brother was just > recently accepted into the Sac and Fox tribe. > > Carol McCoy