This is all of the Jones history background I can muster at this time. I can assure your my maternal side is loaded, found, full of historical people. Being a Jones, it has been tough, some call it a brick wall. It's a history yet uncovered with me and well, a brick wall also. Like many did not ask questions of my grand's, wish I had as Dad was a widowed husband at my just 13 years of age. So mom's and dad's, talk to your children, let them know their history. Dad was a 5 ft 8 man SELF TAUGHT, yes, he was not to be crossed . He was a neat man, dressed the best on Saturdays, had his shot of rye but raised we 5 Jones kids, taught respect for all. As a Jones kid of 14 had his own horse and pistol, he fired a 45 pistol with the US Army Champ Joe Bender at Ft Benning Ga when I was stationed there as a paratrooper. My grandfather, Richard C. Jones Sr was born in NC and moved with the McHenry family down into Murfreesboro, Tn, When ?? He drew a military pension in 1833 for three years and was 65 yrs old at this date. I have no other history of him at this time. He had a son Richard C Jones Jr b 1821, Murfreesboro, Tn and this is his out lay, He married # 1, Theodosia Jarrett in 1840, a daughter Frances A was born in 1845. He married # 2, Mary Cock Dec 18, 1849. He married Mary Jane McHenry, ( MY grandmother) in 1852, children from this marriage were, John S Jones b 1853, William Alvin Jones b 1855, (David Madison Jones b 1857 was my dad's father. David Died on horseback in Amory, Ms )when ? his wife Mattie White Jones is buried in Morton, Ms. Dad was William Lee Jones Sr born in 1887 in Dyersburg Tn, dads sister, Mattie Maurin Jones was born in Carthage Mo in 1889. Richard C Jones JR owned a rather large commissary there in Murfreesboro, Tn and was raided by the Union forces, a recoup was done as congress passed a bill for reinstatement for such raids on confederate properties in 18711, what is important in this is , the names of witness's signing for Richard C Jones Jr's behalf in all of this is the following Jones names. The goods taken was in the Amount of $299.00, I have the papers of this entire affair. James Jones ( I have not found WHO these Jones's are but expect relations to RC Jr. Elihue Jones S Jones Jessie Ferrel GT Nelson R. Arbuker. Richard C Jones had a 4th wife, the sister of Mary Jane McHenry, Amanda McHenry was reported married to Richard C Jones Jr in 1871 but as Genealogy goes, Mary Jane's tombstone reads died 1889, I have not found a record of divorce and the headstone reads wife of Richard C Jones. There is a flaw in this some where. Names associated with Jones there were, Crouse, McHenry, I have a few generations of the McHenrys being as I had Grand's in this name. I have a brother William Lee Jones jr born 1920, Vicksburg, Ms, a sister Beatrice Wyona Ransomer b 1922 Vicksburg, Ms, living in Dayton Ohio. A sister Mary Cecil Schmitt b 1930 living in Southaven, Ms and your truly, Theodore David Jones alias TED, b 5 Dec 1927, a military vet as was my brother W L Jr. I wish all of you the very best and I thank the originator of the Brick Wall Derby. sincerely submitted by T D Jones SR Vicksburg, Ms > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.11/45 - Release Date: -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.336 / Virus Database: 267.8.13/47 - Release Date: 7/12/05