Jones Family Photos
My earliest documented Jones ancestor was Bartlett Jones who was born
in Franklin Co. Georgia @1800. Bartlett Jones lived in Georgia all
his life. He was a member of the Georgia Home Guard and attained the rank of ensign. He
resigned however around 1838 when the Guard was called upon to round up the Cherokee
Indians and move them into stockades to await transport to Indian Territory. In
1832, he participated in the Georgia Gold Lottery and won a parcel of land in what became
Lumpkin Co. He moved his family there by 1834. They later settled on a farm in Hall Co.
where they were living in 1850 and 60. Bartlett and Dicie's names disappeared from the
records sometime during the Civil War. Like many people in the south they probably did not
survive the hardships inflicted at the hands of an invading army and a heavy handed
occupation. There is a good chance that Bartlett was part of the Confederate home guard
unit known as the "old men and boys" that was hastily organized to defend there
homes from Sherman's army of battle hardened veterans. This action resulted in the
slaughter of 100s of elderly and young Georgia men. Bartlett's daughter Sarah Ann Jones
was born in 1830.
James W. Jones 1867-1938
James W. Jones
was born and grew up in northern Georgia during the
early days of "reconstruction" after a bitter and bloody Civil War. It must have
always seemed that life was an uphill struggle for James and he learned early in life that
he had to earn his keep any way he could. There is no record of his mother, Sarah Ann
Jones, ever being married and her children, James and his older brother, William, took
their mother's maiden name. In 1870, James was 3 years old and William was 13 and they
lived with their mother. By 1880, when James was 13, he was living on the farm of a man
named Taylor Armor (30 years earlier, in 1850, James' father-in-law, William
Loggins, was a tenant farmer on Taylor Armor's farm) and William was a
"live-in" farm hand for a family named Rogers. James worked hard at whatever he
could do to take care of himself and his family. Family members say that he was a good
blacksmith, a crafty mule trader and had been known to make pretty good moonshine whiskey.
Years later, after he and his wife, Martha, had moved to Oklahoma, he lived and worked in
the woods west of Bixby, Oklahoma. He grafted pecan twigs onto hickory trees and as the
new branch matured it would produce pecans. This activity earned him the nickname of
"Hickory Nut". He was not a large man but he always had time and room for his
family. His home, as humble as it might be, was always open to his children and
grandchildren when they needed a place to stay.
Around 1906, James moved his wife and four daughters from Hall Co.
Georgia to Whitt, Texas in Parker Co. By 1911, at least three of the girls were married.
James and Martha were living in Springfield, Missouri where their granddaughter, Martha
Helen Anderson, was born during a visit by their daughter, Sarah Jane. In 1920, James and
Martha were living near Bixby in Tulsa Co. Oklahoma. Their daughter Ellen and her two
boys, Jess and Ed Bruton, were living with them at the time. Grandpa Jones died in 1938.
The Joneses at home near Whitt, TX @1907
Cordelia Sarah Jane
Ellen
Ida
The four Jones girls, Ida, Ellen, Sarah Jane and Cordelia were the
children of James W. Jones and Martha Palmetto Loggins Jones. Ida married Harl Williams,
Ellen married Granville Bruton, Sarah Jane married James Anderson and Cordelia married
Pete Baughman.
Ellen Jones Bruton and her first husband, Granville Bruton
in New Mexico @1909
Martha and James Jones @ 1907 in Texas.
Martha and James Jones @1935
James and Martha Jones at a family gathering @ 1936
Rowland A. and Mary K. Jones with and unidentified toddler.
Rowland was the son of Alfred D. Jones and first cousin to
James W. Jones
Photo courtesy of June Saxon
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