----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [TNDAVIDS] Mahlon Jones > Mahlon L Jones to Elizabeth Nelms should be the parents of the Mahlon I > am working on. My grt-grandfather Mahlon was born in 1847 in Nashville. I > believe his parents to be Mahlon & Elizabeth and to have three siblings > (Mudora, Elarena, and William). > Mahlon's second marriage was to Martha A Johns Gregory Stinson on May 12, > 1892 in Franklin (Simpson Co) KY. Application shows it to be his second > marriage and her third marriage. I have copies of this. > Duncan Curtis Jones their only child together was born March 03,1894 in > Franklin Ky. > By the 1900 census Martha (Mattie) is in Nashville with Duncan and her two > children from Stinson marriage (Rebecca & Oren (Ora)) and Mahlon is > deceased. I believe he died in TN. I have paperwork showing they sold the > house they lived in while in KY. > Martha was from NC and seems to have spent her first two marriages in KY. > I believe she moved to Nashville with Mahlon and then he died. But I > cannot find a grave for either. > I searched online with find a grave and with the Nashville site where you > can look at all the cemetaries that they have listed. Trust me it is a > long list. I went through the names cemetary by cemetary trying to find > them. So Mahlon's first marriage was somewhere between 1860 -1892. I just > don't know if it occurred in TN or Ky. > Thanks to everyone for looking for me. > And thanks on the marriage names I had Elizabeth as a Nebons will try > looking with the Nelms name. > BTY I have managed to trace Ora Stinson's family to present day. She > married into Rutledge in Memphis and have traced it though several > marriages to present day family. I sent letters to the addresses I found > hoping to get some king of info as Mahlon was her step father. But no one > will respond to me. > Again Thanks everyone! Sharon Jones Trussell > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >