This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ahpgiggi Surnames: Jones, Blake, etc Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southcarolina.counties.spartanburg/5340.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Vicky, I have some information that might help you although it might be a totally different family. I have a Blake line of Wake Co., NC and his wife is supposedly a Jones and she named her first son Jones Blake. Now this Jones Blake settled in Spartanburg according to "Goodspeed's History of Southern Arkansas". So I'm curious about any Blake info in that area. Here is what I have on the Jones/Blake families of that area. I hasten to add that I haven't been able to connect Lewis Jones' daughter & her Blake husband to the other Jones Blake from Goodspeeds so they may belong to two different Jones lines. Descendants of Lewis Jones, Captain 1 Lewis Jones, Captain b: in Edgefield, South Carolina probably before 1810 2 Marina Gregg Jones b: 1843 in Edgefield District, South Carolina d: Abt. 1895 (I think she might be a second wife.) .... William Kennedy Blake, Honorable m: 1861 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina Father: Thomas Clifton Blake Mother: Eliza Carolina Smith b: 11 Feb 1824 in Fayette, North Carolina d: 09 Jan 1898 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina .. 3 William Blake b: 1861 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina .. 3 Lewis Jones Blake, M.D. b: 20 May 1864 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina ...... Louise R. Henneman m: 18 May 1898 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina Father: J. A. Henneman b: Bef. 1872 .. 3 Rebecca Marina 'Eppie' Blake b: Aft. 1870 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina ...... George W. Rush b: Aft. 1862 .. 3 Frances Blake b: Abt. 1884 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina ...... John Trimmier Sloan b: Bef. 1880 .. 3 Mary Eliza B. 'May Lilly' Blake aka: May Lilly Blake b: Aft. 1874 ...... Samuel Connor Hodges, Senator m: 14 Nov 1899 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina Father: Samuel Benjamin Hodges Mother: Harriet Louise Bailey b: 15 Jan 1874 in Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina .... 4 Louise Hodges b: 01 Jan 1901 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina .. 3 Thomas Clifton Blake b: Abt. 1867 .. 3 Marion Gilliam Blake b: Abt. 1869 Notes: Mr. W.K. BLAKE has gone to Edgefield to attend the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis JONES, the parents of Mrs. BLAKE. The biographical History of SC page 920 & 921 ALL children were named in above article. Could Mary, Thomas & Marion have been by the first wife? ******* Dr. Lewis Jones Blake Blake was educated in a private school in Spartanburg and graduated from Wofford College in 1884. Lewis Jones Blake received his medical degree from the Univ of PA in 1888. He interned at St. Joseph's Hospital in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Univ Hosp. Eventually, he returned to Spartanburg and began a medical practice. He was one of the organizers of the Spartanburg General Board of Health, etc. ********************** Descendants of Jones Blake 1 Jones Blake b: Aft. 1759 d: 1784 in Wake County, North Carolina probable son of Benjamin Blake & Martha Jones. 2 Stephen Blake b: 1772 in Virginia .. 3 Jones Blake, Second b: 29 Aug 1805 in Virginia d: 08 Apr 1880 in Nevada County, Arkansas ...... Elizabeth Allen m: 1829 in South Carolina b: 1812 in Chester County, South Carolina d: May 1860 in Nevada County, Arkansas .... 4 William J. Blake b: 1831 in South Carolina ........ Emily b: 1833 in South Carolina .... 4 M. M. Blake b: 1833 .... 4 C. R. Blake b: 1834 .... 4 Everett H. Blake b: 03 Feb 1837 in South Carolina d: in Quachita County, Arkansas ........ Amanda C. Mendenhall m: 1860 in Nevada County, Arkansas b: Aft. 1837 in Arkansas d: 1864 in Arkansas .... *2nd Wife of Everett H. Blake: ........ Sebia Hardy m: Sep 1888 in Nevada County, Arkansas b: Aft. 1837 .... 4 T. S. Blake b: 1839 .... 4 M. S. Blake b: 1842 .... 4 F. F. Blake b: 1844 .... 4 E. M. Blake b: 1846 .... 4 F. C. H. Blake b: 1848 .. *2nd Wife of Jones Blake, Second: ...... Elizabeth L. m: Aft. 1862 b: Aft. 1810 ************* Goodspeed's Hist SW Ar page 655/56 Didn't type article....info in article posted on outline sketch *********** May 8, 1880 JONES BLAKE born in Virginia, August 29, 1805; moved to So. Carolina when young; married Elizabeth M. Allen in 1829; wife died in 1859; then married Mrs. Elizabeth L. Gulley; died April 8, 1880. SC- from The Christian Advocate, Nashville, TN Death Notices It is possible that there are two Jones Blakes and one died in TN and another dying in AR as Goodspeed's has the one in the article dying in AR. Maybe this will get clues for you. If anyone else has this family, would like to hear from them! Ann Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.