HI William, Were your ancesrors from SC then GA ? Some of them went west. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, too. Betty in TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Jones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [Jones] Barbary Jones from Wake Co, NC > Sam, > > Don't mean to be poking into this thread, but hadn't seen you post for a > while. Just wanted to wish you a great Christmas and New Year. Happy > hunting.... > > Bill Jones > Winfield, KS > > Sam Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Helen My GGGrandfather,Russel Jones was born in wake county 1760. Any > connection. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 8:02 PM > Subject: [Jones] Barbary Jones from Wake Co, NC > > >> I have two sets of JONES families that I am looking for. Here is the info > on >> the first one. >> These JONES were from the Wake Co, NC area. In fact, there were several >> groups of JONES families in that area and I do not know which one my > BARBARY >> JONES was from. She was born abt 1760, NC and died 5/1848, Wake Co, NC. > She was >> married to THOMAS SMITH, Dec 4, 1797. They had at least three children > before >> he died. She remained a widow until her death. >> Their children's names were 1) JONES SMITH, which we most likely can say > he >> was named for his mother's Sir name. Her second child was 2) THOMAS > SMITH, >> named for his father and the third 3) WILLIAM ELDRIDGE SMITH, named after > his >> grandfather and/or many others named WILLIAM in this line. No idea where > the >> ELDRIDGE came from. I have been trying to connect her with a JONES family > for >> a long time. With a name like BARBARY, I would think it would be easily > to >> find her parents but no luck yet. Hope someone knows abt her. >> I have done a lot of research on the JONES that were in that area and > would >> love to hear from someone who has more info on them. I need info from the >> 1760 to abt 1800. I even thought that BARBARY was female for BARNABAS, > with no >> luck. This JONES family may have come from Granville Co, NC, which was > moved >> over to Wake Co, NC later. Her husband, THOMAS SMITH, lived in Granville > Co, >> NC and is listed in the Granville Co, NC early census. I have found > BARBARY >> JONES, born 2/10/1810, who was a daughter of REUBEN JONES and SUSANNAH > VANHOOK, >> from Caswell Co, NC. REUBEN JONES was son of AMBROSE JONES, SR. and >> CATHERINE COLLINS, who came out of Mecklenburg Co, VA and settled in > Granville Co, >> NC. My BARBARY JONES SMITH could have been a daughter but no proof at > all. >> Hoping that someone can help with this one. >> Helen >> >> >> ==== JONES Mailing List ==== >> Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at > [email protected] >> For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this > site: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html >> browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones >> search the archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES >> Did you know that only 7% of Rootsweb subscribers support Rootsweb? >> Thank you for your generous financial support of Rootsweb! >> RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 >> http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.htm > > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > Need to unsubscribe? Just send a message to [email protected] > put the word "unsubscribe" in either the subject line or message body. > > > > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at > [email protected] > For detailed instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing visit this > site: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/j/jones.html > browse the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/jones > search the archives: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=JONES > Unusual JONES given names, > http://members.aol.com/stjones/jones/oddnames.html > >