Anna, I do not think your Osbourne Jones is related to Alfred Jones, who was living in Kemper County in 1850. Alfred was born in North Carolina about 1801. I believe him to be one of the sons of James Jones and Mary [Unknown] who lived in Wayne County, Mississippi from about 1812 until 1830. The youngest son of this couple was born in Tennessee in 1805, and their daughter Chloe was born in SC in 1803. So it would appear the family originated in NC, moved to Tennessee between 1803 and 1805 and to Mississippi about 1812. I believe James the father died about 1815 as Mary Jones appears in the tax and state census records for Wayne County, Mississippi between 1815 and 1820. There is also a younger James and a Wiley Jones who are taxed on Buckatunna Creek in that period. Mary is in the 1820 census with four sons and a daughter. Her household was enumerated four households from that of Thomas Bussey Oden, on Buckatunna Creek. Thomas's oldest son, Elias Oden married Mary's daughter, Chloe Jones in 1822, they are my ggg-grandparents. Between 1820 and 1830, as the sons of Thomas and Mary came of age, they are recorded in the Wayne County tax records as polls. During that period, I have sorted out Britten Jones, Alfred Jones, Ralph Jones and Alson Jones as being the sons of Mary Jones, widow of James Jones, with James, Wiles and possibly a John Jones, having come of age before 1820. Britten Jones and Alfred Jones, along with Elias Oden and his brothers do not appear in the 1830 Mississippi census, and neither does Mary Jones. They do, however, appear in the tax records and state censuses taken in Kemper County between 1830 and 1840. Kemper County was Indian Territory in 1830, and the county was not formed until 1834, after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. I believe the Jones and Oden brothers do not appear in the census, because they were in Indian Territory, staking out land in anticipation of the treaty. In 1860, Alfred was living in Lauderdale County and by 1870, I think he was dead, as his widow and younger children were living in Winn Parish, Louisiana near where Alson Jones, and the widow and children of Britten Jones were living. Both Alson and Ralph named daughters Chloe, and Alson named a son, Elias. Chloe and Elias immigrated to Leon County, Texas, before 1860 and both died there. Marleen Van Horne