THE JONE FAMILY CAN BE TRACED BACK TO ISTANBUL TURKEY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY LIES IN TWO CONTINENTS, ASIA AND EUROPE.THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM AND ALICE LIVED IN THE NORTHEN PART OF TURKEY, AND OFTEN SPOKE OF THE BLACK SEA WHICH WAS CLOSE TO THEIR HOMELAND.AFTER LEAVING TURKEY AND COMING TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THEY TOOK UP RESIDENCE IN VIRGINIA.WILLIAM JONES WAS BORN IN ARKANSAS 1869 ALICE JONES WAS BORN IN ARKANSAS 1973.
THE ANCESTORS OF ALICE JONES,HENRY AND MARY JONES, CAN BE FOUND ON THE 1880 U.S. CENSUS REPORT FOR PULASKI COUNTY, UNION TOWNSHIP, IN THE CITY OF WRIGHTSVILLE, ARKANSAS (VOLVE 11, ENUMERATION DISTRICE #152, SHEET 10. LINE NUMBER 21 THRU 27).THE CITY OF WRIGHTVILLE IS JUST OUTSIDE OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS U.S. HAGHWAY 65 SOUTH.PER THE CENSUS REPORT, LIVING IN THE HOME AT THAT TIME WERE: HENRY JONES, BLACK MALEWAS THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY AGE 35, BORN IN MISSOURI: MARY JONES, WIFE OF HENRY, AGE 26 BORN IN ARKANSAS, THE FOUR CHILDERN ON THIS REPORT WERE LAURENCE JONES/SON AGE 11 ALICE JONES/DAUGHTER AGE 7, IDA JONES/DAUGHTER AGE 6, AND WILLIAMS JONES/SON AGE 2.ALSO LIVING WOTH THIS FAMILY WAS A SISTER IN-LAW, GENETTA JONES AGE 13.
WILLIAMS AND ALICE MET AFTER SLAVERY WAS OVER, MARRIED, AND SETTLED IN ARKANSAS.WE ARE PLEASE TO SAY THAT WILLIAM AND ALICE JONES SETTLED LADD, ARKANSAS, LADD IS LOCATED ON HIGHWAY 425 SOUTH IN THE VICTORIA TOWNSHIP OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, ARKANSAS THE CHRISTIAN AND LOVING COUPLE WAS BLESS WITH EIGHT DEVOTED CHILDERN.THEE DEVOTED CHILDERN WERE ROXIE,MOZELLA, GEORGIA,CORENE, CHARLOTTE,SEBRON,JOHNNIE AND GEVENA JONES.WILLIAM JONES ALSO HAD A YOUNGER DAUGHTER NAMED C. JONES.
WILLAM JONES ALSO HAD BROTHERS BY THE NAME OF JOHNNIE H. JONES AND HENRY JONES.HE ALSO HAD TWO SISTERS, JOHNNIE H, JONES AND HIS WIFE, LEANNA TOOKE JONES WERE BLESSED WITH SIX CHIKDREN, THEIR CHILDERN WHICH WERE BORN IN ARKANSAS WERE, MAGNOLIA *MAG* JONES MORRIS-WHITE/DAUGHTER BRON 1892, NOVILLIE JONES/DAUGHTER BORN 1898, MARY *BALLIE* ELIZABETH VICTORY PRICELLA JONES/DAUGHTER BORN 6/19/1902, ROBERTA *BLACK BABY* JONES/DAUGHTER BORN 1903, TYREE *BUD* JONES/SON BORN 2/14/1905, AND LOYACE *SNOOT* JONES/SON BORN 1908.
THE CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF WILLAM AND ALLICE CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE LM GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH IN NOBLE LAKE, ARKANSAS.IT WAS AT THIS CHURCH WHERE THEIR CHILDERN RECEIVED THEIR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.THIS COUPLE MADE SUE THAT THEIR CHILDERN WERE EDUCATED.THE JONES CHILDREN RECEIVED EARLLY EDUCATION IN THE JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.THEY ALSO ATTENDED BRANCH NORMAL COLLEGE, LOCATED IN PINE PLUFF, ARKANSAS.AFTER BECOMING ADULTS, THESE CHILDERN MOVED TO VARIOUS PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES, BECAME PRODUCTIVE MENBER OF SOCIETY, AND STATED FAMILIES OF THEIR OWN.
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