Since the Jones family comes up as a topic (see Linda's query below for context), I thought I too, would ask for help. I am looking for the father of a William Jones, but he was born in Georgia to parents from NC. William "Mack" Jones was born about 1844 in Union County, Georgia. His mother was from Macon County, North Carolina. She was Elizabeth Rhodes (on records variously as Roads/Rhoads/Rose), born about 1822-24, the daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Rhodes. Henry Rhodes was a stone mason in Georgia. Betsey Rhodes married in NC to Mr. Jones and had two children, William and Nancy (b. winter of 1849/1850 in GA) but by the fall of 1850 was living with her parents. Sometime between 1852 and 1859, Betsey remarried as the second wife of Ezekiel Gribble, then a resident of the Gumlog area of Union County, Georgia. Mr. Gribble had also come from western NC and had many relatives in Haywood, Jackson, and Macon Counties. In Georgia, Betsey Rhodes Jones Gribble had two children with Ezekiel before she died, leaving Nancy Jones as an orphan in the home of her step-father and half-brothers. Shortly before Ezekiel married his third wife, Nancy Jones got married and her stepfather (serving in his capacity as a Justice of the Peace) performed the marriage. Late in 1870, Ezekiel Gribble and the two half-brothers of Nancy and William "Mack" Jones moved to Colorado. It isn't clear what happened to the two Jones step-children after 1870. Not long before his mother's death, Mack had married in 1862 to Nancy Teague. By 1870, Mack and Nancy had children Martha, James, Sallie, and Thomas. I think William Mack Jones may have been conscripted by the Confederates. Two of his Gribble step-brothers either volunteered or were conscripted as Confederates. The rest of the Gribble step-brothers and husbands of the Gribble step-sisters served in the Union Army. If anyone is familiar with the father of this Nancy Jones, b. 1849/1850 or with William Mack Jones, b. 1844, I would really appreciate info on that man and info on his marriage date to Betsey Rhodes. Thanks, <angie@mtwest.net> ---------------------------------------------------- (Linda) Sina28@aol.com wrote, in part: > ... anyone researching WILLIAM JONES,b. abt. 1792. On the 1830 > and 1840 census he is found living in Macon Co. NC.. > > I also located my GGF HOSEA H. JONES living in Macon Co. NC.. He is listed as > serving in the 1838 Indian Removal list. He was serving as a Macon Co. > Volunteers. HOSEA was born in 1820 in NC.. His only son was named WILLIAM L.. > > HOSEA was found living in Polk Co., TN., on the 1840 census. > > I believe WILLIAM might be HOSEA'S father.