Pat....I do know that I have three half black cousins in Kansas.. I do not know which their mother. Since my dad had five sisters....probably it wasCoila Jones. I would just love to hear from them... JoeJones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Ballard" <pissypat@icehouse.net> To: <JONES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: [Jones] Andrew Jones > Pat > > > My grandfather, George Washington Jones had a brother my the name of William born abt 1866, others in the family were Clara P abt 1860; Franklin W abt 1864; Mary S abt 1868; Ida L abt 1873. > > Working on the Jones family is so difficult, do the fact that there are so many, and they all seem to stick with the same names within the families. Plus the racial situation I never know whether I have the right family until I can find something giving me the color of the skin. In todays world I guess that would be called racial profiling, it makes me nervous for fear of offending someone. > > The family started out in New York, but how far back I don't know, some ended up in VA/WV and from there to MO, all of my grandfather's brothers and sisters ended up in CA. The best that I can figure is the the Jones', Morris' and Patterson' were pretty much in VA/WV and all apparently made the trek to MO together for they were in a lot of the findings that I have, and my grandmother was a Morris and her mother was a Patterson. > > I wish I could tell you if my William and your William were the same. My family were pretty much in the St Francois area and some in St Louis Counties. > > If you find any thing more let me know. > > Thanks for replying, > > Pat (Jones) Ballard > Spokane, WA > > pissypat@icehouse.net > > > ==== JONES Mailing List ==== > Direct your questions, comments or problems to the listowner at jones-admin@rootsweb.com > 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 > >