I am searching for ANY info on JIM and LOUIS(A) JONES from Ark. Maybe born Tenn. or Germany. I am guessing they were married around 1860, location unknown, so thye may have been born around 1840. I have posted to this list several times over the years and received many replies but nothing I connect with.I am sorry to say I have not always been able to answer everyone due to the long illness and recent death of my mother. I hope to start anew now. I did get 2 different (?) people sending me a file on a JIM JONES but both times the file had a virus and both times the return E-mail address was a bad one. If someone does have info please try to find a way to send it without the virus, Thank You. I have bits and pieces of info but can not find the bit of info that will help me to find my G.G.Grandparents. I can not even say for sure that their names are JIM and LOUIS(A) EATON JONES. These are the names people remember. The members of this family always have and still do use middle names for first names alot. I know nothing about LOUIS(A) except she was supposed to be an EATON from Tenn. JIM is supposed to have died around 1912-1913 in Loving, Leflore Co. Okla. I have found no records or grave. They had 4 sons, WILLIAM ALBERT known as Albert W. born 1868 and died 1906 in either Leflore Co. Okla. or Scott Co. Ark. He is buried at Weeks Cem. in Scott co. Ark. just across the Okla. state line. The other three sons are JOHN, BOB and HENRY. I have no dates and don't know who was the oldest. All I know is JOHN was a "Blue eyed sandy redhead with a crooked leg and worked on the same farm in Ozark, Franklin Co. Ark. for 20 to 30 years growing strawberries and sweet potatoes before he moved to Leflore Co. Okla. to farm." This from a great aunt years ago. I have never found any records to prove this except for the powder blue (Jones) eyes which often looked white in old family pictures. My grandfather (Claud MARSHALL JONES) died in 1953 and the only info he ever gave on his family was that they were "Dutch and Irish with a little other mixed in for good measure. On his S.S. app. he says his father (Albert Jones) was born in Germany. On the 1900 Franklin Co. Ark. census (the only time I have ever found any of them on a census) Albert is listed as born in Ark. ALBERT married ANNIE R. KIRKSEY and they had 4 sons and 1 daughter. There firs son LEE OMAR(LEOMER on census) was born in BOOTH ARK.(what county) around 1893. The next 3, CLAUD MARSHALL, JOHNNY ROBERT and DOLLY PEARL were born in Ozark, Franklin Co. Ark. and the last JESSY CLAYTON was born unknown place. None had the names of Albert, William or James(Jim). All moved to the Heavener, Howe area of Leflore Co. Okla. Some of the family moved to Fla. in the 50's or 60's. It may have been Bob or Henry's family but I do not know for sure. Some of the names from Fla. are, IDA, ADA, BESS, WILLIE(female), WILLIAM, and BILL. The older ones are thought to have died in the 70's or 80's. All of the brothers worked for the rail road at one time or another. My grandfather was an engine fireman(same a co-pilot on a plane)but did farm work as well. He applied for his S.S. card in Ne. I am guessing he was there to work the wheat as I know they also went to Ark. to work cotton and strawberries. He was 4_F in WWI due to a cripple right hand. There is no one left alive with any knowledge of these people and no paper trail that I can find. There are several JONES famlies on the Franklin Co. Ark. 1850 census but I have no way of knowing if any of them are my JIM JONES or his family. If anyone has any info or can help in any way please let me know. As most JONES famlies seem to be Welsh I am in hopes the German connection will be of some help. I am sorry this is so long but it is a last ditch effort to find something, anything, on my family. Thank You! Peace Delores _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail