This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dejarnette, Jones, Thomson, & Sacre Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FMB.2ACE/2341 Message Board Post: While doing a little research today in the library I ran across a transcribed letter to Charles O. Jones of Pettis Co., MO from someone who could be his sister? I didn't think the letter matched who I was looking for in Pettis Co., but when I got home I realized.. oh darn.. I should have copied that letter. Anyway -- the letter refers to a cousin DeJarnette in the letter. I was looking for descendants of Edward Jones.. who appears to be the father of John S., Charles O. William M or (W), and James M. Jones. I am attempting to sort out the slaves that may have belonged to this JONES family and there are many. I'm interested in their allied family in Pettis. On the DeJarnette side -- I see that John DeJarnette married Julia Ann Clopton -- looks like the DeJarnette's are from Mechlenberg VA. I wonder if they are somehow connected to the SWEPSON or BOYD families from the same area. Also of interest -- the Dejarnette, Jones families are neighbors to David Thomson (who owned slaves that I am tracing) and the Hopkins. I believe there is a THOMSON/HOPKINS marriage via Mentor Thomson's daughter Bettie who married James S. Hopkins. I wondered if the THOMSONS have a tie by blood or marriage to the JONES, and CLOPTON families. There are some young SACRES living with Edward JONES and his son CHARLES O JONES in 1850. Any thoughts or background on the SACRES? More importantly -- can anyone tell me something about Edward Jones -- where did he come from etc. I assume that the Jones boys I noted above are his sons -- as he is living with them on the 1850-1870 census -- and is widowed and on at least one census he is enumerated as an overseer. Traci Wilson-Kleekamp