Anna Brown

Anna married John Jones on 28 Jun 1768 in South Carolina. John (son of William Jones and Phoebe Courtney) was born on 14 Dec 1744 in Dinwiddie Co, Virginia; died on 10 Sep 1821 in Cole's Creek, Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Phoebe Jane Griffing on 10 Oct 1799 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Phoebe (daughter of John Benjamin Griffing and Penelope Coleman) was born about 1783 in Mississippi; died on 10 May 1823 in Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pherobah married Jeremiah Coleman, Jr. on 15 Dec 1789 in Adams Co, Mississippi. Jeremiah (son of Jeremiah Coleman, Sr. and Hannah Swayze) was born on 14 Jun 1764; died on 26 Oct 1819 in Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Israel Coleman about 1804 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Israel (son of Jeremiah Coleman, Sr. and Hannah Swayze) was born on 23 May 1769; died about 1854 in Claiborne Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Phoebe married David Greenleaf on 24 May 1795 in Natchez, Mississippi. David was born on 09 Mar 1763 in Bolton, Worchester, Massachusetts; died on 03 Oct 1819 in Warrenton, Warren Co, Mississippi; was buried in Bethel "Red Bone" Methodist Church Cem, Warren Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Hannah Cole on 06 Apr 1805 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Hannah (daughter of John Cole and Susannah Spell) was born about 1788 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died after 1810 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rev. John Griffing Jones was the son of Jonathan Jones and Pheobe Griffing Jones. He married Jane Oliphant Ross Jones and was a Methodist pastor and historian. He authored "A complete history of Methodism as connected with the Mississippi conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South: Written at the unanimous request of the conference." The book chronicles the experiences of the Rev. Tobias Gibson and his successors as they spread the fire of Methodism in the Natchez territory in the late 1700's and early 1800's.

His sermons and journal are kept in the archives of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Volumes 1 and 2 of his complete history have been published for some time. In recent years, original transcripts of volumes 3 and 4 were found in the papers of a descendant of a historical society member. These volumes will be published in the near future.

Anson West's "History of Methodism in Alabama" contains the following biography (the Mississippi Conference at that time included the state of Alabama):

"The preacher for the Marengo Circuit for 1827 was the Rev. John Griffing Jones. That was his first and last work in Alabama. He did a good work and made a lasting impression on that Circuit. He was born in Jefferson County, Mississippi Territory, August 23, 1804. Just after he had passed seventeen summers he was, as a seeker of religion, admitted into the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in three or four months thereafter he was pardoned of guilt and filled with love imparted by the Holy Ghost; as the days passed peace gave place to doubts, and then doubts subsided and assurance ensued; and subsequently, though in the same year, he obtained a pure heart. By a District Conference at Bethel Camp-ground, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, October 9, 1824, he was licensed to preach, and was recommended to the Annual Conference for admission on trial. At the session of the Mississippi Conference in Tuskaloosa, Alabama, December 24, 1824, his recommendation was presented and he was admitted. At the session of the Conference at Tuskaloosa, Alabama, beginning December 14, 1826, he was admitted into full connection, and on Sunday, December 17, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop Robert R. Roberts; and at the session of the Conference at Tuskaloosa on Sunday, December 28, 1828, in the presence of the conference and the congregation, Bishop Joshua Soule ordained him an elder. He was a delegate to a number of General Conferences of his Church. He read, studied, and wrote much. He knew the Scriptures thoroughly. He was a man of prayer and of piety. He wrote a History of Methodism in the Mississippi Conference which is a very valuable work, and well written. He deserves a monument for that work, and it is a monument itself. He continued as a member of the Mississippi Conference till the close of his earthly pilgrimage. On October 1, 1888, he left these earthly shores and entered into the mansions on high."
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John married Jane Oliphant Ross on 13 Aug 1828 in Jefferson Co, Mississippi. Jane was born about 1810; died after 1840 in of, Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]