Fellow Jones/Sasser Researchers: I need help on a problem that I have been wrestling with ever since I started researching the Jones family years ago. My gr grandfather Thomas Jefferson Jones (1836-1916) raised my dad Omer Jones (1905-1988) after dad's mother Sallie died. Jeff Jones was the oldest child of Malinda Sasser who married Millington /Milton Jones (m. 1841, Laurel Co, KY), but he was not Milton's child. Years after Jeff was dead, his son T. T. Jones wrote a letter to my father, explaining the circumstances of his birth. I will excerpt the relevant section. "My great grandfather on my father's side was Henry Sasser of North Carolina. He came into Knox Co about 1825. My grandmother, Linda Sasser remembered coming through Raleigh in a wagon. She was born in 1817....My grandmother, L. Sasser, bore my father to Anderson Jones of Laurel Co. who left her and went west to Kansas or Arkansas. She then married Milton Jones and had by him a large family." The letter is quite detailed about other (but unrelated) family relationships, and is correct in all other important aspects. There is significant support that Milton was not Jeff's father (i.e., birth & marriage dates, and also the fact that Jeff was not an heir when Milton died, despite the fact that he had been part of the family most all his life). There was a man named Anderson D. Jones of approximately the same age as Malinda who married Mildred Yager in (1844) and lived in Laurel Co all his life. According to the 1850 census, he was the son of Darling Jones, who lived near Henry Sasser in 1840 & had a son of the right age. If he is Jeff's father and went West, he did not stay long. I have never heard of any relationship between Jeff Jones & his biological father, so I can't say for certain whether the Anderson Jones I have described is the right man. I am hoping that someone in the group knows something (Perhaps, one of Anderson & Mildred's descendants). I would like to do some work on this branch, but don't know whether I should or not. I'm open to suggestions. Surely, I'm not the only genealogist with a "woods colt" in my tree. Vietta