Hello to thee Carolina kid
This is my first in a series of responses to your recent blog.
For a long time I have agreed that John U Jones, person # 60 in my 1988 book was a son of Thomas Jones. There is considerable circumstantial evidence suggesting same that is insufficient to form a clear pattern because John U Jones leaves Marshall/Calloway in 1851/51 moving to McCracken County. There is a McCracken County death record for John U Jones accessible via ancestry that provides solid historical evidence that Thomas Jones was his father (see below).
John U Johnes (Jones) died on 10 April, 1856 at the age of 39 in McCracken Co, KY, USA. The attending physician was Dr White stated that he died of pneumonia, Parents were Thomas and Mary Johnes (Jones)
The family surname was spelled Johnes but the timely remarriage of his widow is convincing that this is John U Jones. Tracing the new Mrs Wm J Wright house hold in the 1860 census that includes Nancy and some of the children she parented with John is proof. Her burial in the same grave yard with two of her sons reinforces same.
That record also states that John U Jones's mother's name was Mary which opens the argument that Thomas Jones married again after Nancy Brown.
I also have Y-chromosome data that although of low statistical significance confirms that I am personally related to one of John U Jones's descendants suggests that we both descended from Thomas Jones.
Earl Jones
June 1, 2012
