Rebel Beckham Jones

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1904, 1571 Fannin, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 1918, Family Reunion, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; summer
• Military: Abt 1918, C Company, 56 Infantry, A.E.F.
• Census: 1930, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1941, 1776 College, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas

Notes:

1910 listed in father's household, single, 31, molder in a Supply Co.
1930 father CY living with him at 78 yrs old, and a widower. Also shows twins age 3 2/12 on Apr 5
profession - molder in a foundry.
informant on his father's d.c. in 1933.

Rebel Beckham Jones was the son of Cyrus Y Jones and Nancy A Jones according to the 1920 Federal Census of Beaumont, Texas. He was a moulder for a supply company. His father was a wagon driver for a refinery. Rebel was the oldest of four brothers born to the family which was living at 1591 Fannin Street in Beaumont.
In 1942 Rebel registered for the draft in World War II. He lived at 1776 College Street and was working for Oil City Brass Company. He listed his place of birth as Liberty, TX.
(findagrave)

Residence:
Jones, Cyrus Y, nightwatchman A. Broussard, r. 1571 Fannin. 4 Sw. ph 956.
Jones, Cyrus Y., jr., engr T. & N. O. h. 1571 Fannin
Jones, Rebel B., h 1571 Fannin
Jones, Madden M., meat cutter W.W. Chaison h 1571 Fannin
Jones, William P., engr T. & N.O., h 1571 Fannin

Military:
per newspaper article about family reunion, relating those relatives who were unable to attend:
"Reb Jones, son of C.Y. Jones, C company, 56th infantry, A.E.F."

Census:
College Street
Rebel Jones 42 m age 34, TX United States US foundry
Myrtle Jones 32 m age 24 LA LA MS
Billie Jones 3 2/12 TX
Betty Jones 3 2/12 TX
C Y Jones 78 widow m age 21 TX TX TX retired


Residence:
Jones, Rebel B (Myrtle; 2) mkdr h 1776 College

Died:
D.C. Rebel Beckham Jones, age 83, married, wife Mrs.Myrtle Jones, b Moss Bluff, Texas, residence, 1776 College,
military, yes, WWI 452-09-4239
molder, service foundry,
died at St. Elizabeth Hosp.
father, cyrus Jones, mother Ann Wooten,


Name: Rebel Jones
SSN: 452-09-4239
Last Residence: 77701 Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, United States of America
Born: 26 Feb 1888
Died: Jan 1972
State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (Before 1951)

Rebel married Myrtle Bessie Holton in 1924 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. Myrtle was born on 24 Jun 1897 in Louisiana; died on 22 Feb 1987 in Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Betty Rae Jones was born on 7 Jan 1927 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; died on 24 Jan 2001 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas.
2. Rebel Byrum Jones was born on 7 Jan 1927 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; died in Nov 1983 in Silsbee, Hardin Co, Texas.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas
• Residence: 10 Oct 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 22 Dec 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 15 Jul 1870, Goliad, Goliad Co, Texas
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872, Moss Bluff, Liberty Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 1874, Mc Lennan Co, Texas; Daisy b
• Residence: 1880, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas; Mabra b
• Census: 18 Jun 1880, Liberty Co (Precinct 4), Texas
• Residence: 1892, Colmesneil, Tyler Co, Texas; Lloyd b
• Residence: 1900, 1320 Orleans, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 11 Jun 1900, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1901, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; reunion
• Residence: 1903, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; moved to
• Residence: 1904, 1571 Fannin, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Census: 22 Apr 1910, Beaumont (Ward 2), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: 22 Apr 1910, 1571 Fannin St, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 1918, Family Reunion, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas; summer
• Census: 10 Jan 1920, Beaumont (Precinct 1), Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1922, 1394 Victoria, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; Nancy's D.C.
• Residence: 1923, 980 Brockman, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas
• Residence: 1933, 1776 College, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; D.C.

Notes:

1870 in Goliad, Texas at age 18, seemingly living with relatives after the breakup of the Jones family.
1910 Cyrus Y - 67, TX, Missouri, Missouri - wagon driver in a refinery
Nancy A - 66, TX, Kentucky, Louisiana
Rebel B - 31 Single, molder, Supply Co
Earl L - son - 27, machinist, Supply Co
Clarence G - 45 wid - engineer, locomotive
Donald A son 9
Zera dau 8
Ninah dau 6
1914 Bmt city directory: Not listed
1916 Bmt city directory: Cyrus Y Jones, driver - Pierce-Fordyce Oil Assn res 1571 Fannin
1918 Bmt city directory: Cyrus Y Jones, driver - Pierce-Fordyce Oil Assn res 1571 Fannin
(between Ave B & Ave C)
1919: Family reunion - Cyrus did not attend due to illness of his wife, but was represented by granddaughters Misses Madge and Blance Spinks and their friend Mrs. Leah Stewart.
1920: Bmt city directory: Cyrus Y Jones (Nancy A) watchman res 1571 Fannin
also: Cyrus Y Jones, Jr., eng r 1394 Victoria
1921 Bmt city directory: wife Nancy, 1395 Victoria
1923: 985 Brockman.


Cyrus's children were:
Daisy M. b. 1874
Clarence Y. b. 1876
Mabra Madden b. Jan 6, 1880
William P. b. 1882
Rebel B. b. Feb 26, 1888
Lloyd Earl, b. Jan 2, 1892
Beatrice 1894

I show his address at 575 Orleans St. Beaumont, Jefferson Co. TX in 1901.
I don't have where the children were born.
Most of these people (if not all) are buried in Magnolia Cemetery.

headstones in Cyrus section of Magnolia:
Myrtle Holton Jones (Jun 24, 1897 - Feb 22, 1987)
Betty Rae Massey Jones (Jan 7 1927 - Jan 24 2001)


Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)


Census:
187/188 Head of house:
Denton, Jasper 28 farmer TX
Agnes 21
Edward 1
Jones Cyrus 18 stock hand Texas


Residence:
apparently living with sister Susan in Liberty county.
Mary wrote, "Mr. Rabb thinks as much of Bob as he does his own. Bob joined the church last summer. He is exactly one year younger than Cyrus. The last letter I got from Sister and Cyrus said Mr. Wiggins had joined and Cyrus wanted to join the church. Sister said now she and her husband could commune together. Did she tell you about her little bit of a baby only weighed 9 lb at two months old. She said she wanted us to look for her a home in Northern Texas."


Census:
residence 35
Jones, Andrew age 23 1853 laborer TX IL TX

In same community, not next door, his brother Cyrus
residence 78

Jones Cyrus 28 1852 farmer TX MO MO
N.A. wife 26 1854 keeping house TX GA LA
Daisey 5 1875 daughter TX
C.Y. 3 son 1878 TX
M.M. 5/12 Jan 1880 TX


Census:
1900 census
1320 Orleans, H18 452
Jones Charles B Mar 1853 47 m 27 yrs Grocery clerk
Nancy wife May 1855 45 m 27 yrs. 8 children 7 living, TX AL LA
Clarence son May 1816 24 R.R. fireman
M.M. dau Jan 1880 20
Willie P son Dec 1882 17 day laborer # months not emp 4
R.B. son Feb 1884 11
L.E. son Jan 1892 8
Beatrus dau Jan 1894 6

Other-Begin:
(see notes on reunion under his father Mabra Madden Jones page)

Residence:
calculated on statement on d.c. in 1933 that he had lived in Beaumont 30 yrs. Apparently estimated as he was counted in Beaumont's 1900 census.


Residence:
Jones, Cyrus Y, nightwatchman A. Broussard, r. 1571 Fannin. 4 Sw. ph 956.
Jones, Cyrus Y., jr., engr T. & N. O. h. 1571 Fannin
Jones, Rebel B., h 1571 Fannin
Jones, Madden M., meat cutter W.W. Chaison h 1571 Fannin
Jones, William P., engr T. & N.O., h 1571 Fannin

Census:
residence 129
1308 Forsythe Street
Richard H Sherman 57 m1 31 yrs MO MO MO boarding house
Susan S Sherman 54 wife 6 births 3 living TX TN LA
Ruth M Sherman 14 dau
Lula L Cliffe 21 [27] dau div 2 births 2 living telephone operator
Joseph M Cliffe 8 grandson TX MO TX
Ludelle Cliffe 5 granddau TX Eng TX
Francis Able 30 boarder m2 KY KY KY
Virgie Able 22 boarder m2 2 yrs 1 birth 1 living rice mill TX KY TX
Francis C Able 6/12 [0] boarder Texas
Nellie Walker 19 boarder single Arkansas
Thomas H Shelton 47 boarder divorced TX TX TX carpenter house (Susan's cousin)

residence 133
1571 Fannin Street
Jones, Cyrus 56 1854 Texas GA GA driver oil wagon
Ann 56 Texas TX KY LA
Madden 30 1880 son single butcher market TX TX TX
Reb son 22 moulder iron works
Earl son 18 machinist iron works
Beatrice 16 dau


Census:
1920, 159 Fannin Street (house number before
1535 house number after - Cyrus house # written over, cannot read it)

Cyrus Y age 67, married, TX MO MO driver refinery
Nancy A 66 m TX KY LA
Rebel B 31 single moulder supply company
Earl L son 27 single machinist, supply company
Clarence Y 45 wd engineer, locomotive
Donald A son 9
Zera dau 8
Neenah dau 6
Patton Ray servant Mulotto 38 Div TX TX TX servant house wages
Patton Lizzy servant Mulotto 15 S TX TX TX servant house wages
owns home, free of mortgage

-- two doors down 1523 Fannin Street, his son William.
Jones William P head 37 TX TX TX engineer, locomotive
Elizabeth J wife 37 TX TX TX
Wille M dau 13 TX
Estelle dau 12
Lorice dau 9
A.G. son 3 4/12
Holland William, father-in law 55 TX MS MS, watchman pipeline

Residence:
Jones, Cyrus Y 980 (985) Brockman


Died:
d.c. Cyrus Y Jones, age 80 married, Mrs. Nancy Jones,
1776 College Street, Beaumont; lived in Bmt 35 yrs; retired oil field worker last worked 1920; total yrs, in occupation 20 born Goliad, Texas
father Unknown, born unknown
mother Unknown, born unknown
died of myocarditis superimposed by influenza, at 12:45 pm
informant, Mr. R. B. Jones, Beaumont

Cyrus married Nancy Ann Wooten on 25 Aug 1872. Nancy (daughter of Thomas Anderson Wooten and Elizabeth Ann Wiggins) was born on 21 May 1854 in Walker Co, Texas; died on 8 Jul 1922 in Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas; was buried on 09 Jul 1922 in Magnolia Cem, Beaumont, Jefferson Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 23 Jun 1880, Liberty Co (Precinct 4), Texas

Notes:

Died:
D.C., Mrs. Nancy A. Jones age 68,
residence 1394 Victoria, lived in city 24 years. married to C.Y. Jones
father's name Thomas A. Wooten, Sr., b Louisiana; mother Miss Wiggins, born Louisiana.
died at 4:28 p.m. (bad copy to read cause of death
Fu- - - cletosis ??, duration 15 yrs
informant, C.Y. Jones, Beaumont,

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Residence: 1844, Cass Co, Texas; came to Texas
• Residence: 1847, Victoria Co, Texas; moved to
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas; church formed
• Occupation: 1850, Victoria Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria Co, Texas; Agriculture
• Residence: 1852, Manahuilla Minnuvee Creek at Buzzard Roost Country, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Occupation: 1855, Victoria Co, Gonzales Co, Dewitt Co, Texas; blacksmith, preacher, judge
• Property: 9 May 1855, Dewitt Co, Texas; from Peter C Ragsdale
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Property: 10 Mar 1857, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; 1 acre from Marx Weil
• Occupation: 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Residence: 6 Feb 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: Bef 14 Aug 1860, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 10 Oct 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter(?)
• Residence: 22 Dec 1862, Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas; per letter(?)
• Residence: 8 Dec 1866, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas
• Occupation: 1870, Lavaca Co, Texas; blacksmith
• Census: 02 Jun 1870, Halletsville P.O., Lavaca Co, Texas
• Residence: 18 Dec 1870, Halletsville, Lavaca Co, Texa; per letter
• Residence: 25 Mar 1871, Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 23 Apr 1871, Halletsville, Lavaca Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872; per letter
• Occupation: 1880, Lavaca Co, Texas; farmer
• Census: 16 Jun 1880, Lavaca Co (Precinct 5), Texas
• Census: 21 Jun 1900, Palestine, Anderson Co, Texas
• Other-Begin: 10 Jun 1901, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; Reunion
• Other-Begin: 1919, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas; reunion
• Research Notes: Abt 1978; from Olive Massie

Notes:

According to the Organization of the First Christian Congregation, his name was Mayberry, shortened to Mabry or Mabra, but spelled "Mabarie" by Margaret Ann Butts Cooley.

A blacksmith by trade, came to Texas in 1844. 1852 probably time that Loveladys and Jones moved over into Dewitt County on the Manahurla Minnuvee Creek, also called Buzzard Roost Country.
Olive Massie stated that he had "served as county judge of Gonzales for several years"(?)
____________
Known Chronology of Mabra and Lovelady family
1820 b KY (Mabra)
1821 - Mo - Sarah born
1831 - Platte Co Mo - Sarah's parents organize Salem Christian Ch
1835 - Jackson Co Mo - Jane Lovelady m Jackson Butts 29 Jan
1840 - MO - m Sarah Lovelady
1841 - MO - George born
1843 - MO - Mary born
1844 - TX - came to Texas - Cass Co.
1845 - Victoria Co - (in-laws James & Nancy, Board of First Christian Ch)
*1846 - M.M. Jones & James Lovelady shown in Cass Co, TX (near Arkansas) "Republic of Texas Poll List for 1846 - Mullins, 1984)
1846 - Victoria Co - Susan born (not verified)
1847 - Victoria County, only a few months after the Indians made their last famous raid to the coast country and burned Linnville, five miles south of Victoria. He soon accummulated some capital from the blacksmith business and invested in cattle, establishing a ranch in Goliad County.
1847 - - Jane Lovelady Butts d Aug 31
1847 - Victoria Co - Ann Lovelady m Alfred Allee Lee 4 Nov
1848 - Victoria Co - Nancy b (not verified. Nancy J. listed in 1850 Victoria Census as 2 yrs old, b in TX; is not listed in 1860 Dewitt Census)
1849 - Victoria Co - tax receipt for Jackson Butts
1849 - Victoria Co - listed as member of Org of 1st Christian Congreg Mar 28
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M M Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)
1852 - Goliad Co - Cyrus born Mar 1
1852 - Victoria Co - James Lovelady sold house to Edward Fink Apr 24
1852 - - Jackson Butts married Susan Bounds
1852 - Dewitt Co - Mabra moved - Manahuila Minnuvee Creek, Buzzard Roost Country.
1855 - Dewitt Co - Stephen born 14 November
1855 - Manahuila, Dewitt Co, Texas - Mabra Jones and James Lovelady there
1856 - Yorktown, DeWitt Co, Texas - Mabra there
1857 - Victoria, Dewitt Co - Andrew born 14 April
1860 - Dewitt Co - Mabra sold cattle and planning to move back across the river.
1860 - Lavaca Co - George in school in Goliad
1860, Feb - Henry born (1860 census taken in July states he was 5/12 yrs old.)
1860 Jul - boarder John F. Graves, age 25, blacksmith from Virginia
1863 - Dewitt Co - Sarah died
1863 - Lavaca Co - married Martha Ponton
1864 - Lavaca Co - Nancy "Nannie" born
1867 - Middletown, Goliad Co, Texas - made their move prior to this date. Move was
made just before Wed Aug 14 1867
1868 - Lavaca Co - Nellie born
1870 - Lavaca Co - Census: Nancy, Nellie, Stephen & Andrew w/Mabra & Martha
Laura and Tom born (twins?)
1870 - Goliad Co - Cyrus at age 18, living w/ relatives
1871 - Lavaca Co - Mabra officiated at marriage of his ftr-in-law Dr. Joel Ponton and Harriet Koonce Oct 1
1874 - Lavaca Co - Joel A born (Nov 28)
1880 - Lavaca Co - Anna born
1883 - Lavaca Co - Alice (Alsie) born
1886 -Lavaca Co - John born
1900 - Palestine, Anderson Co


Census:
Platte County, Missouri
only date in the records is on first page in handwriting about swearing to the census tally and is dated 23 Nov 1840.
Ancestry scans numbering, this is page 28 of 92

Name: Stephen Jones
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
John (18), Thomas 19
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Mabra (20)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Stephen (48)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2
Emmeline (4) Eliza (10 - b.d.?)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Susan (16? - age discrepancy)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
(could be Nancy or Nancy could be married and this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1821 - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time. Mabra is not in any census records on his own; and he is accounted for here.
Sarah is not accounted for in her father James Lovelady's
census record in this same county. Looks like Mabra and Sarah are newly weds and living with his father.


Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8
_____________________
(ancestry scans numbering - pg 22 of 92)

James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Girls: Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mabra at Stephen's.
Jane: age unk, but married 1835; so she's gone.
Ann: age unk, she married in 1847 - this is Ann.


Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 3

Religion:
We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 30th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of "The First Christian Congregation of Victoria". In order that we may receive the benefits of said act, we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovlady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of Trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, has may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof we hereunto affix our names this 28th day of March A. D. 1849.

Signed,
Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
1850 - Victoria Co census:

Residence 6 (pg 1)
Jones M M 30 abt 1820 Male Kentucky blacksmith
Jones Sarah 30 abt 1820 Female Missouri
Jones G W 9 abt 1841 Male Missouri
Jones Mary N 7 abt 1843 Female Texas
Jones Susan M 4 abt 1846 Female Texas
Jones Nancy J 2 abt 1848 Female Texas
Bonum Richd 22 abt 1828 Male Missouri
Seber Catharine 9 abt 1841 Female Germany


residence 5 (pg 1)
Seber John 37 abt 1813 Male Germany
Seber Catharine 39 abt 1811 Female Germany


residence 16 (pg 3)
Butts Jackson 38 1812 Missouri
Butts Cathrine 21 1829 Tennessee
Butts Margaret 13 1837 Missouri
Butts John W 9 1841 Missouri
Butts A J 7 1843 Male Texas


residence 55 (pg 7)
Saml Middleton 44 1806 South Carolina
Mary Middleton 34 1816 Missouri
Elizabeth Middleton 15 1835 Texas
-William C Middleton 12 1838 Texas
-John Middleton 10 1840 Texas
Frank Middleton 8 1842 Texas
Amanda Middleton 3 1847 Texas

- William and John mentioned in one of Mary's lettere, that they had gone to a big church meeting



Census_Year 1850
Microfilm # 432-916
State TX
County Victoria
page line

240a 1 Lovelady James 53 Tenn pg0232a.txt
240a 2 Lovelady Nancy 50 S.C pg0232a.txt


232a 12 Jones Fielding 40 Ky pg0232a.txt
232a 34 Jones G.W. 9 M.s* pg0232a.txt
232a 32 Jones M.M. 30 Ky pg0232a.txt
232a 35 Jones Mary N. 7 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 37 Jones Nancy J. 2 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 33 Jones Sarah 30 M.'s* pg0232a.txt
232a 36 Jones Susan M. 4 Texas pg0232a.txt
232a 38 Bonum Rich.d 22 M.s* pg0232a.txt

232a 31 Seber Catharine 39 Germany pg0232a.txt
232a 39 Seber Catharine 9 Germany pg0232a.txt
232a 30 Seber John 37 Germany pg0232a.txt

1 16 16 Butts Jackson 38 M Labourer M.s*
REMARKS: Missouri
2 16 16 Butts Cathrine 21 F Ten
3 16 16 Butts Margaret 13 F M.s X
4 16 16 Butts John W. 9 M M.s X
5 16 16 Butts A. J. 7 M Tex

Richard Bonham with family in 1850 in Victoria.
in 1860 family in DeWitt (Clinton Twp) and Richard Bonham is too. (Jones & Lovelady not in Clinton though)
This time staying with
Oliver H. Stapp 42
Margaret 36
Caleb 9
Edward 11
Darwin 2
Laura 6
Dora 4
J Armstead 29 male
Richard Bonham 30 Missouri



1846 - Texas Census
1850
232a 12 Jones Fielding 40 Ky pg0232a.txt
1860
Fielding Jones 52 1808 Kentucky
Mary A. Jones 28 1832 Mississippi
James J. Jones 3, 1857 Texas
1860 - Victoria, Slave Schedule

Occupation:
Blacksmith by trade per census records, but he was also a preacher alongside his full-time preacher father-in-law, James Lovelady. Per family info, he was also county judge for several years in Gonzales county.

Property:
320 acres from Peter C. Ragsdale.
filed in Clinton, Dewitt Co, Texas, May 8 1855
Deed Record Vol F, Page 397 on May 10, 1855 by James N. Smith, Clerk - (bio of James N. Smith in Handbook of Texas.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fsm27


Note: Clinton is a ghost town in DeWitt County, in the U.S. state of Texas.[1]

Clinton was once the county seat of DeWitt County.[2] A post office called Clinton was established in 1849, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1886.[3]
(Wikipedia)

Clinton county seat starting in Aug 1850. Court was held in a log house until a log courthouse was built at a cost of $400 in 1852. A frame building was erected in 1855 and followed by a two-story courthouse in 1858.
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrc70

location of property
18 mi N 30 m W of Goliad
---------
Peter Chapple Ragsdale
3 Feb 1810 VA - 12 Mar 1882 San Marcos, Hay Co, Tx
son of Nimrod Ragsdale (1778 - 1835) and Mary Ann Chapple
Peter had a brother named William JONES Ragsdale.
Ragsdales are ancestors of Donna Foster's mother's line while her father's ancestors include Obed Lovelady (she is 7th cousin to Sherry thru Loveladys).
Peter Ragsdale might have been some kin to Mabra - maybe?


Property:
Purchased 1 acre on upper portion of Yorktown from Marx Weil for $65.

Marx Weil and family found in 1860 census, Goliad, Goliad Co, Texas census:
M. Wal (mistranslated from Weil) 48 1812
merchant, 1000; 10,000 France
Sarah 40 1820 merchant Bavaria
Edward 16 1844 merchant France
Selma 8 1852 Mississippi

Immigration to New Orleans
Passenger List taken on Board the Am. Ship Dumbarlon whereof Pendleton is Master, at the Port of Havre and bound for New Orleans
26 Feby 1848
Marx Weil age 36 France
Sarah 28 France
Edward 3 France

Residence:
Mary wrote to Susan, "Poppa preached at one of the houses close by, but we started to come home, met some more coming, all went to Dr. Throckmortons on the Cabeza to dinner. Poppa went one way us the other. We did not hear any preaching. I did not think there would be any person there. If it had not been so cold I think we would have had a good congregation."
(letter attached)

Census:
1860 Dewitt Co, Texas, Clinton P.O.
pg 36
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas
John F. Graves 25 1835 blacksmith Virginia

residence 299
Parker, M. 59 1801 Georgia
Elizabeth 49 1811 Tennessee
Amanda 17 1843 Texas
Mary T. 15 1845 Texas
Susan 10 1850 Texas
Isiah 8 1852 Texas
M.A. 5 1855 female Texas

residence 300
Parker, A.H. 23 1837 Texas
Elizabeth 23 1837 Alabama
Mary 1/23 1860 Alabama

residence 301
Jones, Enoch 74 1786 Delaware
Nancy 67 1793 North Carolina
Lewis B. 22 1838 Mississippi
Rabb Ulesses 29 1831 Texas
Rabb Malissa 27 1833 Mississippi
Tumlinson, Robert F. 7 1853 Texas
Rabb, L.B. 3 1857 Texas
Rabb, Paul M. 10/12 1859 Texas
Steddom, N.B. 13 1847 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

residence 303
Jacobs, G.W. 37 1823 Mississippi
Ellena 35 1825 Mississippi
Nancy T. 8 1852 Mississippi
Emeline E. 6 1854 Texas
Mary 2 1858 Texas

residence 304 (prob not related)
Stewart, Joseph 44 1816 Tennessee

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)


(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)


Census:
Mabra M Jones 50 blacksmith 400, 300, Kentucky
Martha 24 keeping house Tennessee
Stephen 16 works on farm Missouri ck'd cannot write
Andrew 13 works on farm Texas Texas ck'd cannot write
Nancy 6 Texas
Nellie 2 Texas




Residence:
Mary laments she does not know where his post office is.
"I knew Pa and George did not want to hear from me for they knew where to write to me and the knew I did not know where their Post Office was. I have written to Pa three or four times and he has never replied. I cannot bear to give up the boys but I guess they have forgotten me, or want to."
Going by address from last letter and 1880 census, he was probably still in Lavaca County.

Census:
1880 Lavaca (pg 460)
Mabra M Jones 1819 61 KY VA VA farmer
Martha Jones (Ponton) 32 1848 TX
E. Nannie 15 1865 TX
Laura 9 1871 TX
A. Joel 6 1874 TX
J. Thomas 2 1878 TX
Ponton, T. James 27 1853 Brother-in-law 1870 works on farm



Census:
Palestine, Anderson Co - Precinct 2, Vol 1 Ed 8 Sheet 11, Line 40; living in Palestine; according to census,
Mabry May 1813 in Missouri; age 87 years; married 37 years, Missouri, Missouri, Missouri
Martha Sept 1852 (47 years old), 9 births, 7 living
Anna, Oct 1880 19
Alsie September 1883 16
John Aug 6 13

Note: Martha birth in error. Marriage was 1863, which if Martha b 1852, only 11 years. Headstone shows born 1844.


Other-Begin:
The following was furnished to Olive Massie by Nell Donaldson, daughter of Nellie Jones Wooten. She also furnished to Olive the picture of MM Jones in 1978.

Jones Family Reunion of 1901
Father and Seven Children Meet in Waco After a Separation of 35 Years

The Convention of the Christian Church in this city last week furnished the occasion for a family reunion which was enjoyed with intense delight by the participants.
Mabra Madden Jones, who lives near Palestine, Texas met seven of his children in this city and the father, brothers, and sisters spent the week together. It was the first time they had all been together since 1866, thirty-five years ago. Atat time the youngest was only six years old and the oldest was twenty-five. All had seen each other since that time but at different times and places.
The elder Jones is eighty-one years old and his children, seven in number, all live in Texas, but in different parts are as follows:
Dr. George W Jones of Proctor, Texas
Mrs. Sue M. Linthicum, 618 Earle St, East Waco
Mrs. Mary M. Moore, 1102 Columbus St, Waco
Cyrus Y. Jones, 575 Orleans St, Beaumont, Tx
Stephen L. Jones, 701 So. 17th St, Waco
Andrew P. Jones, Helbig, Jefferson Co, Texas
Henry M Jones, Palestine, Tx

Mabra Madden Jones, father of the five sons and two daughters named above, was born in Kentucky, in 1820. He moved to Missouri and in 1840 was married to Miss Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Elder James Lovelady. In 1844 he removed to Texas staying in Cass Co. until 1847, when he proceeded to Victoria, only a few months after the Indians made their last famous raid to the coast country and burned Linnville, five miles south of Victoria. He soon accumulated some capital at the blacksmith business and invested in cattle, establishing a ranch in Goliad Co. His first wife, Sarah, the mother of these seven children, died in DeWitt Co. in 1860 and in 1863 he married Miss Martha Ponton in Lavaca Co. Nine children blessed this union, seven of whom are still living.
At the close of the war between the States, the children of the first marriage separated and while they all remained in Texas; some of them are now living four hundred miles apart. They have occasionally visited each other, and all have visited their father; though this is the first reunion of the family. The father and the eldest son had not seen one another in twenty-four years. George, Cyrus and Henry had not seen one another in twenty-six years. All the others had not met in the last ten years.
The week had been passed in one continual and unbroken round of pleasure in which grand children and great grand children participated.
The father and seven children were photographed in a group and another interesting group was made with the Elder M.M. Jones, his daughter, Mrs. S.M. Linthicum, her daughter, Mrs. Runie M. Moore, and Mrs. Moore's daughter, Miss Ollie representing four generations.
The reunion will adjourn today, but the family recorded a pledge that if possible it shall be repeated every year in the future.


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10 Jun 1901 Waco, McLennan Co, Texas
reunion
Waco Times-Herald 1901
Mon., June 10 (8-4): Jones family reunion at Waco. Mr. and Mrs. Jones of Palestine met seven of his children. First time since 1866. Elder Jones is 81. The children: Dr. George W. Jones, Mrs. Mary M. Moore, Mrs. Sue M. Linthicum, Cyrus Y. Jones, Stephen L. Jones, Andrew P. Jones, Henry M. Jones, Mabra Madden Jones was born in Kentucky in 1820. To Missouri 1840, and married Miss Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Elder James Lovelady. In 1844, to Texas; blacksmith. Wife died in DeWitt county in 1860. In 1863, married Miss Martha Ponten in Lavaca county



Other-Begin:
Jones Family Reunion in Waco
ca 1919
A reunion of the Jones family,or a part of that big family is in progress this week in Waco. Nineteen members of the family from other parts of the state are here and are the guest of Stephen L. Jones, and his sisters; Mrs. Mary M. Moore and Sue M. Linthicum and their families.
The visitors are Henry M. Jones and wife, their two daughters and grand daughter, also their son L.M. Jones, wife and baby. J.W. Jones, brother to Stephen L. Jones. Henry M. Jones from Palestine.
Mrs. Reb Wooten, son and daughter from Fairfield, Tx. Mrs. Wooten is sister of the three Waco Jones.
Andrew P. Jones another brother from Beaumont.
Cyrus Y. Jones of Beaumont who was unable to attend on account of illness of his wife, is represented by his grand daughters; Misses Madge and Blanche Spinks and their friend, Mrs. Leah Stewart.
Mrs. F.F. Jones of Stephenville, widow of George W. Jones, the eldest of the brothers and their son J.B. Jones and wife of Valley Mills, were in attendance.
The reunion began Sunday and will end next Sunday. Most of the time is spent at the residence of Stephen L. Jones, 701 So. 17th St., occupied by himself and his two nieces, Mrs. J.J. Harris and Mrs. Runie Moore. Monday afternoon the entirch went to the top of the Amicable building and had a view of the city and surrounding country. Wednesday all were guest of Mrs. H.J. Stricker, daughter of Mrs. M.M. Moore, and thursday they enjoyed a visit to Cameron park. Friday they are taking in the 4th of July celebration at Cotton Palace Park.
These family reunions are held every year, alternating between Waco, Palestine, and Beaumont. Next year it will be at Beaumont. The first one was held in Waco in 1901.


Buried:
Mabra and Martha buried in East Hill Cem, Palestine, Texas
GPS coordinates of N 31.7635 and W -95.6169
This location is 85 feet east of a row of large pine trees, and 25 feet north of South Street.

Mabra* married Sarah* Lovelady between Jun 1840 and 23 Nov 1840 in Platte Co, Missouri . Sarah* (daughter of Rev. James* Lovelady and Nancy* Linville (maybe), (dau?)) was born in 1820 in Missouri; died between 1860 and 1863 in Dewitt Co, or Lavaca Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation of Victoria; church formed
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
• Residence: 15 Jan 1856, Manahuilla, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 14 Dec 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas

Notes:

(From Leonard B Meyer)
July 24, 1997
Dear Sherry Sharp:

Your letter came yesterday, and some material from Wilma came today. I told my wife Ruth that it seems I have acquired another fan in Wilma, that making two, Ruth being the other one! I am glad that what I have contributed is appreciated,d I appreciate what I have received also.

Perhaps I should make it clear how I acquired this much information regarding such a limited time span. A few years ago, I got possession of a bunch of old letters and documents far long enough to transcribe them by hand, into three bindef legal paper. I started out trying to learn more about the Butts family from which I am descended, and from there the search proliferated into the Lovelady, Bownds (Bounds?) and other families.

My great-grandfather, Jackson Butts, married Jane Lovelady as his first wife. She died August 31, 1847. He married a second wife, Catherine Poland, who died within a year or so, then in 1852 he married Susan Bownds who was my great-grandm. So, you see, there is no blood relationship between me and the Loveladys, except for Jackson's oldest daughter Margaret Ann, who was Jane's only survivor who had children. But Pappy Lovelady wrote to Jackson and Susan as son and daughter, Mary Jones addressed her as "beloved aunt," and Stephen wrote to my grandfather as "Cousin Berry."

I think there is no doubt that the Loveladys, Buttses, and Joneses were in Victoria County in 1844, as one of Jackson's sons, Andrew, appears as born in Texas about that time. Also I have a copy of a handwritten receipt which goes "Receif Jackson Butts the sum of five dollars in full of his state and county tax for the year 1849 - F.U. Fordham, Ass & Coll, V.C., Victoria County."

Also, Ann, the youngest Lovelady girl, married Alfred Allee November 4, 1847. And I have a copy of the Bill of Sale of the home of James Lovelady to Edward Fink, Lot #1, Block 117, Range 8, Victoria, April 24, 1852.

In the statement in the summation sent by Wilma regarding the organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria, about James and Nancy being on the board, there is a little error. Those named, James and Nancy, Jackson, Sarah any Jones, A. Allee (Ann had already died) and perhaps Felix Webb, were the whole congregation!

It must have been in 1852 that the Loveladys and Joneses moved over into Dewitt County on the Manahurla Minnuvee Creek, also called Buzzard Roost Country.

There was quite a lot of communication between the Joneses and Butts families in the '50s. In 1860, George was going to school in Goliad. A letter from Mary goes thus: "We are all about to leave this country. Pap (James) and Grandmaf going to the mountains. They have sold their cattle." There seems to have been a terrible drought that caused many people to leave that area. Added in a postscript at the beginning of the letter is "I have got the sweetest little brother. He can sit alone. He is as fat as a pig." That must have been Henry at several months old; and it is apparent that Sarah must have died soon after Henry's birth. So my date of 1860 must be an error of reading an indistinct date.

So, Mabry and Mary, and perhaps others moved to Terryville, on the line between Dewitt and Lavaca Counties. But Susan Mariah must have married to A Wiggins and was still living at Middletown or Weesatche. Susan later lived at Hoss Bluffrty County and urged George to come out there, as that area needed a doctor and singing school teacher. But that was in 1872, after the war! Instead, he seems to have married Frances Bosworth and was living near Schulenburg in Lavaca County. From there, in connection with the Bosworth family, we find him living up in Central Texas, Red Rock, Pettytown, maybe San Saba and finally Stephenville. He and Frances are buried in West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath Co, Texas.

I have no date for Mary's marriage, but she and Mr. Norton moved to Oak Hill near LaGrange, Texas. After several years, they moved to North Texas, then moved back. Mary was living in Burleson County about 1914. According to the reuni, Mary had married a Moore, and Sue had married a Linthicum.

Mary never had any children (by choice), and I am of the opinion that the friction between her and Mabry was because she married and did not continue to take care of his "four little motherless boys" as she put it. Anyway, she tried toe of the boys, as George and Sue did. Mabry farmed the boys out at times, some of them to my great-grandmother Susan. But the 1870 Census reveals that Stephen and Andrew were living with Mabry and Martha then, as well as daughter Nancy and Nellie (b 1864 & 1868) and the 1880 lists a son Joel A, born November 28, 1874.

I am confused about the children of Martha listed as being born in Chambers Co, after Nancy (Nannie) and Nellie, also Joel A. I know nothing about Laura, Tom, Anna, Alice and John, but those named above were in the 1870 and 1880 Lavaca Cos records and must have been in Lavaca Co at that time. Also, it is a matter of record that Mabry officiated at the wedding of his father-in-law, Dr. Joel Ponton, to Harriet Koonce on October 1, 1871, near where I now live in Lavaca Co. However, it may well explain Stephen's reference to having been to Beaumont on one occasion.

Incidentally, I have noticed that Mabry and Sarah had a daughter Nancy J, born 1848, next after Sue. About the name ---- in the document about the Organization of the First Christian Congregation, the name is Mayberry, which no doubt is t, shortened to Mabry usually, but spelled Mabarie by Margaret Ann Butts Cooley.

I have just been checking the list of Mabry's children and the dates given for their births seems to have been made from a faulty memory. Assuming, I think correctly, that the three families came to Texas in 1844, it seems obvious that Ge841 and Mary 1843 were born in Missouri, but there is some doubt about Susan 1846 and Nancy 1848, though I think they were born in Texas. But Cyrus 1852, Stephen 1854, Andrew 1857, were born in Texas because the document of the Organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria has the names of M.M. and Sarah, date of March 28, 1849. Henry was not listed in the census of 1860, so his birth date 1863 is probably correct. It is on record that Cyrus Jones was in Goliad Co in 1870, age 18, seemingly living with relatives after the breakup of the Jones family. But in a letter from Mary she wrote that Susan Mariah (Margaret Ann Butts spelled Mariar) wrote that Mr. Wiggins had "joined the church" and that Cyrus intended to. I wonder if this Cyrus was one of the Wiggins children. In this letter Mary complains that Mabry had George and Susan a brother to keep, but had refused to give her one.

As far as I had known previously, Margaret Ann, Jackson's daughter, Sue Wiggins, and George were the only Lovelady descendents, and I am glad to find there were others. I have been trying to find some of the Jones descendents for some ythout success.

I was born, not many miles from where the Joneses and the Loveladys lived, in Goliad County, at a later date, Dec 7, 1906. From that you will notice that I will be 91 on my next birthday. My handwriting has deteriorated considerably spied these letters.

I am sending this information for you to consider, before I send any copies. I will have to go through the letters to find some that will illustrate what I have written. But as I wrote Wilma, I have three binders full of writings, ant want to let them get away, possibly in the mail. I have suggested that Ron Lehde, who lives in Victoria, copy those he wants to, but she/Wilma reports that his copier is in need of repair. Since Sherry Sharp has a son John in Houston, I might make the same offer to him. Or I might leave the material at my son's place, 30211 Charlie Lane, Magnolia, Texas 77355. Maybe something can be arranged.
Sincerely,
Leonard B. Meyer
----




Birth:
1830 census
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: (1821-1825) 2
Sarah (9, gave b.d. as 1820 in 1850 and 1860) Jane cannot be less than 1820 due to her marriage date. Sarah must have been younger than 1820.

1840 census, newlywed living with Stephen Jones
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: (1811-1820) 1
(could be Nancy Jones; or Nancy could be married and
this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1820 (1821?) - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time

Census:
census closed out 23 Nov 1840

Name: Stephen Jones
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2 John (18), Thomas 19
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Mabra (20)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Stephen (48)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 Emmeline (4) Eliza (10 - b.d.?)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Susan (16? - age discrepancy)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: (1811-1820) 1
(could be Nancy; or Nancy could be married and
this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1820 (1822?) - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time
Mabra is not in any census records on his own; and he is accounted for here.
Sarah is not accounted for in her father James Lovelady's
cenus record in this same county. Looks like Mabra and Sarah are newly weds and living with his father.


Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 4
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8

_____________________

James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Girls: Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mabra at Stephen's.
Jane: age unk, but married 1835; so she's gone.
Ann: age unk, she married in 1847 - this is Ann.


Religion:
Victoria, Crossroads of So TX, (1982), FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF VICTORIA, TEXAS
In Deed Book 4, page 145, Victoria County Courthouse, the following entry was made 28 March 1849

"We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government as those held by the Denomination usually called Christians, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 20th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of 'The First Christian Congregation of Victoria'. In order that we may recieve the benefits of said act we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovelady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, as may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof, we hereunto Affix our names this 28th day March A. D. 1849."
Signed, Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
20 Aug 1850 Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas
1850 - Victoria Co census:
M.M. Jones 30 Blacksmith 300 KY
Sarah 30 MO
G.W. Jones 9 MO
Mary A 7 TX
Susan M 4 TX
Nancy J 2 TX
Richard Bonum 22 Blacksmith MO (b 1828)
Catherine Seber 9 DEU (Germany)

next door, John (37) and Catherine (39) Seber, from Germany. Probably the Jones had taken in their child for some neighborly reason

Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)

Notes:

Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Mabry Madden Jones
Gender: Male
Birth Place: KY
Birth Year: 1820
Spouse Name: Sarah Lovelady
Spouse Birth Year: 1820
Marriage
Year: 1840
Marriage State: MO
Number Pages: 1

appear to be married and living with Mabra's father, Stephen in census dated November, 1840.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1860, Liberty Co, Texas
• Military: 7 Aug 1863, Liberty, Liberty Co, Texas; Capt.

Notes:

Census:
Thos A Wooten 40
Elizabeth Wooten 35
Sarah J Wooten 15
Elizabeth Wooten 13
Jane Wooten 11
Thomas Wooten 9
Ann Wooten 6
Jenkins Wooten 3
Mary H Wooten 6/12
William Bloom 16 Germany
Andrew Thornel 15 Alabama


Military:
name and Rank: Wooten, Thomas, Capt.
Comm Off: Wooten, Thomas A. Capt.,
Organ: Co. B 2nd Brig, TC.; Genl. Geo W. Van Vleck, cmdg., TST tr to CSA.
Enlist: Aug 7-63 at Liberty for 6 mos.; Must into CSA Aug 13-63.
disch:
Descrip: Age 44 yrs.
Remarks: R&F 71; Enr & Mus.off.G.W. Van Vleck, Co. std. at Camp Wood Aug 13-63; 1 MR dtd. Aug. 13-63.

Thomas married Elizabeth Ann Wiggins on 9 Nov 1843 in Texas. Elizabeth (daughter of Daniel Prairie Wiggins and Lucy Elizabeth Whatley) was born on 9 Feb 1824 in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana; died on 13 Nov 1878 in Moss Bluff, Liberty Co, Texas; was buried in Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1870, Liberty Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
Elizabeth Wootton 48
Thomas A Wootton 19
Anne Wootton 16
William J Wootton 13
Mary H Wootton 11
Mattie Wootton 7
John R Wootton 5

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1817, Winchester, Clark Co, Kentucky
• Residence: Between 1822 and 1824, Boone, Harrison Co, Indiana
• Residence: Between 1824 and 1836, Meade Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1830, Brandenburg, Meade Co, Kentucky
• Census: 1839, Platte Co, Missouri ; Platte Co. Tax List
• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Occupation: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri ; manufacture and trade
• Census: 17 Oct 1850, Scott Co, Illinois
• Residence: 1853, Contra Costa Co, California
• Census: 31 Jul 1860, Contra Costa Co, California

Notes:

According to Freeda's research Stephen and Mariah were cousins.

1820 KY Cen. shows a Stephen Jones in Jefferson, Harlan, and 3 in Fleming Co's.

Lived in Henry Co, KY, then Harrison Co, Indiana

1818-1822- Henry Co, KY
1822-1824 - Harrison Co, IN
1824-1836 Meade Co, KY
1836-1838 Scott Co, IL
1838-1844 Platte Co, MO
1839 Platte Co, MO
1844-1853 Scott Co, IL


1830 Meade Co, Brandenburg:
Stephen Jones couple 30-40;
3 boys <5; 1 female <5; 1 female 10-15; 2 males 50-60;


mariah 35

aft 1836- 1838 - Scott Co, IL (2 years)
1839 Platte Co. MO Tax List w/ Loveladys and Linvilles
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1840 Platte Co, Missouri Census (Roll # 228, pg 112), manufacture & trade. No Twsp listed
2 males - 15-20 John (19), Tom (15)
1 male - 20-30 Mabra (20)
1 male - 40-50 Stephen (45)
2 female - 5-10 Eliza (10), Emmeline (6)
1 female 10-15 Susan (16 - hadn't had b.d. yet?)
1 fem 20-30 Nancy (would have been 18-?)

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NOTE: Also shown in 1840 Platte Co, Missouri census are:
Thomas Jones couple 50-60
Gabriel Madden and wife, age 20-30; 1 male under 5, 1 female under 5, and 1 male 5-10.
Lewis Jones and wife: age 20-30; 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10.
William Jones couple 20-30, and male <5
William J Jones couple under 20 and 1 male <5
George Jones couple under 20 and 2 females <5
Rodham Jones couple 20-30, 1 male <5, 1 female 15-20; 1 female 30-40
L.W. Jones; couple, 20-30; 1 boy <5; 2 girls <5;
1 girl 5-10; 1 girl 15-20
Joshua couple 30-40; boy <5; 2 boys 5-10; 1 boy 10-15; 1 girl 5-10

Hoy Jones couple, 60-70; couple 20-30; 1 boy 10-15; 1 boy 15-20; 1 girl 5-10; 1 girl 10-15; 1 girl 15-20
(not in search; but saw on pg; "Hoy" may not be right)

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1844 - bef 1850 Platt Co, MO

1850 Scott Co, IL census living with John Madden, age 80, farmer, born in VA and Catherine, 71, born in VA, his in-laws, along with his daughter Emmeline (age 16) and son John W (age 29), both born in Kentucky. Mariah is not shown, therefore, it is assumed she died prior to the census.

NOTE: 1850 Scott Co, also shows Samuel B. Jones age 30, b KY, occupation: Wagon Maker
wife Martha Jane, age 28, b Indiana
son Ephriam S., age 5, b Illinois
son William B., age 2, b Indiana

1853 - moved to Contra Costa Co, CA with a couple of sons.
1860 census - Contra Costa Co, CA
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Subj: update
Date: 3/1/00 11:21:05 PM Central Standard Time
From: jjreedy@ix.netcom.com (John Reedy)
To: lumoto@aol.com

Hi Sherry,
Hope all is well with you and family.
Sandy and I are currently in Salt Lake City and so you now know what we've been doing.
I found Stephen Jones, finally. He and a couple sons did move to Contra Costa County, CA in 1853. He's on the 1860 census and he died in 1863 at the age of 71. Found his grave too and now have his birth and death date.
According to what I found, he lived in Henry Co. KY, then Harrison Co. IN for a short while, then to Meade Co. KY about 1822 until 1836, then to Scott Co. IL for two years, then to Platte Co. MO until 1844, then back to Scott Co. IL until 1853. Still haven't found Mariah, but I assume she died in Meade Co. KY. She is not on the 1840 Platte Co. census. Also found Stephen and the Loveladys and the Linvilles on an 1839 Platte Co. tax list.
Been hard at work trying to find Stephen's beginning too, but still have not found them.
We're stopping at Iowa City to see Becky on the way back and I'll write with more when we get back next week.
TIll then,
John
_______________
Date: 4/8/00 8:53:28 PM Central Daylight Time
From: jjreedy@ix.netcom.com (John Reedy)
To: lumoto@aol.com

From the "History of Contra Costa County", W.A. Slocum & Publishers, San Francisco, 1882, p. 587

JOHN W. JONES. - This much respected old pioneer, the subject of our sketch was born in Henry county, Kentucky, January 28, 1822. When but an infant his parents moved to Harrison county, Indiana, and after a short residence there removed to Meade County, Kentucky, where he was educated at the common schools, and resided until fourteen years of age. In 1836 he moved west to Scott County, Illinois where he resided for two years, and then moved to Platte County, Missouri, where he engaged in farming until the Spring of 1844. He then spent the next three years in boating on the Mississippi river, and in 1847 again settled in Scott county, Illinois where he resided until March 1853, when, with ox-teams, and accompanied by his wife and family, he started to cross the plains to the Golden State; after a trip of six months he arrived at his brother's place (Thomas) in Lafayette, Contra Costa county, where he remained the first year, and in October, 1855, bought his present valuable place, consisting of three hundred and ten acres one mile southwest of Walnut Creek, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. Mr. Jones was united in marriage in Exeter, Illinois, May 30, 1852, to Miss Martha J. Arnold,, a native of Tennessee, by which union they have one son: Henry T.

From the July 3rd, 1860 census, Township #2, Contra Costa County, CA, page 88
John W. Jones, age 38, Farmer, $9,000 $8,600 b. KY.
Jane age 32 b. IL.
Henry T. age 3 b. CA
Stephen age 68, Farmer $0 $ 80 b. VA
Mabra Madden age 28, Farmer $0 $600 b. IN
Richard E. Madden age 22, Farmer $0 $50 b. IL

From "Death Notices, 1860-1899, Contra Costa, California", Bernard Freedman, Compiler, 1996"

Jones - At the residence of his son, J. Jones, near Lafayette, on Sunday last, Mr. Stephen Jones, aged 71 years. Deceased was a native of Virginia and came across the plains from Illinois in 1853.

From "California Cemetery Records, Contra Costa, California (Founded 1850), Vol 1 1854-1964, Compiled by Darlene Appell, Ellen Leloy, Jean May, Elaine Null, Ann Perry,Marjorie Wenger, 1980"

Lafayette Cemetery

JONES, Stephen d. March 8, 1863, age 71 years 15 days

Information taken from a 3 ring binder kept at the cemetery and from the tombstone
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Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, CA
http://coccc.tripod.com/lafayette_j-l.htm

it shows our Stephen,
John W, and wife Martha
Cecil Arnold Jones (Cecil B Jones, Lawrence Stephen Jones, Tom Jones, Stephen Jones)
Ella Hodges Jones (Mrs E.H.) - wife of Henry Clay Jones - son of Tom Jones.
Alms Leslie Jones - must be Leslie Jones, s/o Mabra R, s/o Tom Jones
Minnie Hodges Jones is wife of Henry Turner Jones, s/o John W

Other Jones I can't ID
Levi B
Mary E
Miriam Adelaide is probably who we (or I) have as Marion, dau of Henry Turner

Elizabeth (wife of Nathaniel)
Nathanial (found - not ours -- b in MO in 1820)
Wallace Lee (found - not ours)
----Family Search:---
Nathaniel Jones: FamilySearch, born 20 Jan 1820, Hawkins Co, E, Tennessee
died 31 Jan 1899 Walnut Creek, Contra Costa
M Elizabeth C. Allen 10 Aug 1842
b 2 Aug 1823 Missouri
d Jan 1904 Crockett, Contra Costa Co, CA
Father Isaac Allen
Mother Margaret


Wallace Lee - son of Nathaniel - b 28 May 1860 Lafayette
d 25 Apr 1888

Birth:
Census records show b.d. 1795

Residence:
In 1830, John Madden and Lettie B. Madden are living in Boone, Harrison County, Indiana.


John Madden
male 1761-1770 (60-69)
female 1771-1780 (50-59)
male 1791-1800 30-39
2 male 1801-1810 20-29
1 male 1816-1820 10-14
2 female 1821-1825 5-9
2 females 1811-1815 15-19

pg 1
Pell, Wm


pg 3
Jones, Thomas

pg 5
Pell, James
Pell, John


pg 7
Pell, Wm
Madden, John

pg 9
Madden, Lettle B
Maddan, Wm
Maddan, Wm
McAfee, Samuel (?)
Pell, Abram


pg 11 (in sequence)
Pool, Chester
Boon, George
McIntire, John
Conrad, George
Sapington, Richard



Census:
Stephen Jones (pg 11)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 2
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 5
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 9

other Jones in Bradenburg 1830:
Redman Jones (pg 5)
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4

near Barham Madden (two entries between)
Name: Barham Madden
[Bonham Madden]
[Bnham Madden]
Home in 1830: Brandenburg, Meade, Kentucky
View Map
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 2



William B. Jones pg 17
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total Slaves: 3
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 11



Census:
Also listed is James Lovelady and Linvilles


Census:
1840 Platte Co, Missouri Census (Roll # 228, pg 112), manufacture & trade. No Twsp listed

Ancestry image scans have this page as 22 of 92
census closes out dated 23 November 1840

Name: Stephen Jones
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2 John (18), Thomas 19
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Mabra (20)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Stephen (48)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 Emmeline (4) Eliza (10 - b.d.?)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Susan (16? - age discrepancy)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 (could be Nancy or Nancy could be married and
this is Sarah Lovelady who was b 1821 - depending on months, she could have been 19 at this time
Mabra is not in any census records on his own; and he is accounted for here.
Sarah is not accounted for in her father James Lovelady's
cenus record in this same county. Looks like Mabra and Sarah are
newly weds and living with his father.


Census:
Madden, John 80 1770 Virginia farmer 800
Madden, Catherine 71 1779 Virginia
Jones, Stephen 55 1795 Virginia
Emeline 16 Kentucky 1834
John W. 29 Kentucky 1821

residence 578
Henry M. Stewart 46 1806 physician VA
Caroline 35 1815 VA
Clayton M. 18 1832 farmer VA
Horace 13 1837 IL
Eliza 10 1840 IL
Newton 8 1842 IL
John Hardin 4 1846 Illinois
(infant unnamed) 2 1848 female Illinois
Stewart Mary L. 9 1841 Illinois
Turner, Mahton P. 25 1825 male Illinois
Turner. Thomas Robinson 22 1828 Scotland


Census:
1860 Contra Costa County, Township 2, California
Post Office: Lafayette and Alamo
John W Jones 38 1822 Kentucky farmer 8,000; 8600
Jane Jones 32 1828 Tennessee
Henry T Jones 3 1857 California
Stephen Jones 68 1792 Virginia farmer $80
Mabra Madden 29 1831 Indiana 600
Richard E Madden 22 1838 Illinois $50
Simon Prior 23 1837 New York
John Hartman 30 1830 sea


Died:
Stephen Jones (1795-1863) was married to Mariah Madden. She died bef 1840 in Illinois; and in 1853 Stephen traveled to Lafayette with his son John W. Jones to meet up with John W's brother, Thomas Jones, who was already there. Stephen, and several of the family are buried in Lafayette Cem (as indicated below).

If you are researching this family, or if you are a descendant, I would love to trade info with you, and more importantly, meet you. I descend from another of Stephen's sons, Mabra Jones, who had traved to South Texas and settled in Victoria Co, about 1845.

Also, if anyone is local to this cemetery and would be willing to snap a few digital pictures, I would very much greatly appreciate some pictures of these headstones - particularly Stephen Jones as he is my 3rd g-grandfather.The

families are as follows:
1 John W Jones
Burial: Lafayette Cem, Lafayette, Contra Costa Co, California
b: 28 Jan 1822 in Henry Co, Kentucky
d: 1905 in Lafayette Cem..
+ Martha Jane Arnold
Burial: Lafayette Cem b: 1824 in Illinois d: 1873
..... 2 Henry Turner Jones b: 1857
+Minnie Hodges (Burial: Lafayette Cem, b: 08 Feb 1859 d: 17 Jan 1883)
..... *2nd Wife of Henry Turner Jones:
..... +Mary Rankin

3 Marion Jones (Mariam? bur in Lafayette Cem?)
b: 1900 in California

(There is a brief bio of John W Jones in "History of Contra Costa County" W.A. Slocum & Publishers, San Francisco, 1882, p. 587, stating that in 1855 he bought 310 acres 1 mi SW of Walnut Creek. His father Stephen died at his home at age 71 in 1863.

1 Tom Jones
+Margaret Southard
..... 2 Lawrence Stephen Jones +Jane Ayres
............. 3 Edgar F Jones +Lena Lutey
............. 3 Cecil B Jones +Anna Reynolds
..................... 4 Cecil Arnold Jones b: 1878 Burial: Lafayette Cem d: 02 Jul 1923
............. 3 Lawrence M Jones
............. 3 William H Jones b: 1883
............. 3 Maud M Jones b: 1886
............. 3 George W Jones b: 1889
..... 2 Henry Clay Jones +Ella Hodges (Burial: Lafayette Cem d: Feb 1914)
............. 3 Dwight Jones
..... 2 Emmeline Jones
..... 2 William Jones + ?
............. 3 Harold Jones
............. 3 Edna Jones
..... 2 Mabra R Jones
+ ?
............. 3 Margie Jones
............. 3 Leslie Jones Burial: Lafayette Cem d: 23 Jun 1905
..... 2 Dolly Jones +E.G. Gram
............. 3 Zoe Gram

The web page for the Cemetery is http://coccc.tripod.com/lafayette_j-l.htm

I've ID'd most of the Joneses listed, but these following names I do not have:
Elizabeth Jones
Levi B Jones
Mary E Jones
Miriam Adelaide Jones is possibly who I have listed as Marion Jones, dau of Henry Turner
Nathanial Jones
Wallace Lee Jones
___________________________
Two Madden cousins were also with the Joneses in Lafayette
-- Mabra Madden (b 1829 m Maggie Shafer) and Richard Madden (b 1838, m Emma Southard), sons of two of Mariah Madden Jones' brothers.

The Lafayette Cemetery has listed three Madden graves, one being William T Madden, an 8-month old son of Richard and Emma. The other two I do not know who they are, Jerry Madden (d 6 Apr 1948) and Johannah Madden (d 15 Dec 1933).

Looking forward to hearing from anyone interested in this family! :)

Note from Jordan Jones on behalf of Sherry Moyer Sharp (cousins)
- Jordan Jones
Added: Jun. 15, 2010

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=dfl&GRid=21928423

Buried:
headstone states
"Died March 8, 1863, Aged 71 years & 15 days."

Stephen* married Mariah* Madden on 26 Mar 1817 in Winchester, Clark Co, Kentucky. Mariah* (daughter of John* Madden and Catharine* Bonham) was born on 6 Nov 1795 in Frederick Co, Virginia; died before 1837 in Meade Co, Illinois (possibly). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
From: John Reedy
To: 'Sherry'
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 3:26 PM
Subject: RE:

Well, we know that she died after her last child was born 1834 and before the 1839 tax list of Platte Co. MO.

My guess is that the family moved from Meade to Scott IL after her death, then to Platte and then back to Scott.

If she died at Scott Co. IL, there is no marker, yet everyone else who died there has a headstone.

Really doubt that she got as far as Platte and there are poor records at Meade. So just my guess, but that's where I think she's buried.

Which mean that she probably died between 1834 and 1837? Or was that 1836 when they went to Scott for the first time?

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: Bounds/McBride/Parker relations?
• Residence: 1810, White Co, Tennessee
• Property: 15 Oct 1828, Jackson Co, Missouri; 40 acres
• Census: 1830, Jackson Co, Missouri
• Property: 1 Nov 1830, Jackson Co, Missouri; bought
• Religion: Sep 1831, Christian Conference for Missouri, Tarbo Grove, Lafayette Co, Missouri; made an elder
• Property: 24 Dec 1831, Jackson Co, Missouri; sold
• Religion: Abt 1832, New Salem Church, Jackson Co, Missouri
• Property: 31 May 1832, Missouri
• Residence: 1833, Jackson Co, Missouri
• Religion: Between 1834 and 1836, Independence, Missouri; preaching
• Religion: 9 Jul 1834, Jackson Co, Missouri
• Religion: Abt 1835, First Christian Congregation, Platte Co, Missouri
• Religion: 1835, Huntsville, Randolph Co, Missouri; preaching
• Census: 1839, Platte Co, Missouri ; Platte Co. Tax List
• Occupation: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri ; learned professional engineers
• Religion: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri ; reporter for Platt Co.
• Other-Begin: 22 Aug 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Census: Nov 1840, Platte Co, Missouri ; study of related families
• Religion: 1841, Bear Creek, Platte Co, Missouri ; elder
• Residence: 1844, Texas; moved to Texas
• Census: 1846, Cass Co, Texas; Cass Co. Tax List
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation of Victoria; church formed
• Census: 20 Aug 1850, Victoria Co, Texas; agriculture
• Census: 22 Aug 1850, Victoria Co, Texas
• Religion: Between 4 Nov 1851 and 31 Aug 1854, Lavaca Co, Texas; performed marriages
• Possessions: 24 Apr 1852, Victoria Co, Lot 1, Block 117, Range 8, Texas; sold
• Residence: 17 Jul 1854, Victoria Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 16 May 1855, Manahuilla Minnuvee Creek at Buzzard Roost Country, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 28 Jun 1856, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Religion: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; camp meeting
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861; per letter
• Religion: 9 Jul 1863, Lavaca Co, Texas; performed marriage
• Residence: 8 Dec 1866, Terryville, Lavaca Co, Texas; per letter
• Other-Begin: 28 Dec 1866, Lavaca Co, Texas; letter
• Residence: Jan 1867, Dewitt Co, Texas; moved to Dewitt
• Residence: 2 Aug 1867, Dewitt Co, Texas; voter registration
• Religion: Between 1869 and 1871, Lavaca Co, Texas; performed marriages
• Census: 1870; cannot find
• Residence: 25 Aug 1872, maybe near Lyons, Burleson Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: Abt May 1877, in transit; per letter
• Census: 15 Jun 1880, San Saba Co (District 112), Texas

Notes:

information from Wilma B Moore (wbmoore@ticfin.com)
9418 Deervale Court
Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
(615) 370-0744
(July 1997)

James Lovelady was a minister of the Christian Church (restoration movement, known as Cambellites - Karl Kiser). James and Nancy removed from White County, Tennessee, with other members of their family to Missouri by 1831, where James helped to organize the Salem Christian Church in Platte Co, Missouri. The family was in Victoria County, Texas by 1845, when James and Nancy were on the Board of the First Christian Church. James and Nancy had three children, all daughters.
(1.) Jane (married Jackson Butts on 29 Jan 1835, in Jackson Co., Missouri);
(2.) Sarah (married M. M. Jones and died in DeWitt County, Texas, in 1860); and
(3.) Ann (married A. Lee on 4 Nov 1847, in Victoria County, Texas).
Sadly, all three of James and Nancy's daughters died relatively young. However, they remained on close terms with their sons-in-law.

the following provided by Mary Ehlers, 3665 N. Bond, Fresno CA 93726:
James was born 1790-1800 according to 1840 Census (Platte Co, Missouri), married Nancy; died in Texas after 1880 when he was listed in the household of grandson George Jones in San Saba County.
James was in Missouri by 1831 when he and wife Nancy, with William Bowers and wife Catherine, deeded land to Thomas Linville. (see notes of Nancy Linville Lovelady).

... but you might be able to find it at the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Phone:
573-882-7083; website: http://www.system.missouri.edu/shs/

from: John Reedy
to: Sherry and Alice,
Our local library has "Missouri Miscellany". It is nothing more than a hodgepodge of genealogical items that some publisher threw together into a series of volumes. From Volume I, Woodruff, 1976:
"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife & James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832 Jackson County, MO)

This is all there is and probably would not be considered a 'source' as it does not give any other details like a deed would.

October 15, 1998
Jackson County Courthouse
415 East 12th Street
Records Department
Room 104
Kansas City, Missouri 61406
Dear Clerk,
Would you please send me a copy of the deed reflected in the following citation and mail to the address indicated in the letterhead. I have enclosed a check for $10.00 to cover the look-up and copy fees.
"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 18
Thank you very much for your assistance.
______________________
The Salem Christian Church, Platte Co, Missouri, was organized 31 Dec 1837. Among its constituent members were James Lovelady, an Elder, and his wife Nancy. He was a minister of the Christian Church. By 1845 he was in Victoria, Texas, where was on the Board of Directors of the First Christian Congregation with Nancy Lovelady and Jackson Butts. He and his wife Nancy are shown on the 1860 Census (Dewitt Co, Texas)

1820 Smith Co , TN-
James (1797);
1 male under 10;
1 male 26-45 (1775-1794) (James 1797) a bit old
1 female under 10 (1810-1820) this would be Jane, but 1830 census did not show a daughter born before 1820.
1 female 16-26 (1794-1804) (Nancy 1800)

(This is not our James. It is the son of John Lovelady. He was born in 1760 and died in 1837 or so. John was the brother of Thomas Lovelady (John Reedy)

However, interesting that White Co formed from Smith Co in 1806.


1820 White Co, TN - James' father Thomas confirmed there, family profile fits.

1828 Nov 15: 40 ac. James Lovelady 15 Nov 1828 s36 T50 R33
(from Record of Original Entries to Lands in *Jackson County, MO; O.B. & Joanne Chiles Eakin (1985)).
* Jackson Co formed from Lafayette Co in 1826
(Karl Kiser)

1830 Missouri Census - Jackson County

1833: James Lovelady is likely to have some additional interesting details from October 1833 (Battle of Mormons or Battle of Big Blue--Kaw township, Jackson county, MO). I have not had a chance to fully follow the clues. The Mormons had a colony west of the Big Blue and there was violence because the Mormons voted in block and others took exception. A Thomas Linville was killed 31 Oct 1833. (Karl Kiser, 4 Mar 2010)

1835 Platt Co, Missouri with church
1836 August - from: "Adam Hill Credit Account Book 1833-1836"--Mrs. Donald B. Erlich (1980) p90 James Lovelady; Jackson county, MO Aug 1836 pd blacksmith bill in full.
1840 Jackson Co Census shows John Wear, James Wear, and Sarah Wear
1840 Platte Co, Missouri Census shows a James Lovelady:
male - 40-50
female - 40-50
2 females - 5-10
1846 Cass Co, Texas (Tax Rolls) with Mabra Jones family
1850 Victoria, Texas Census: (res: 153)
James age 53 farmer 600 TN
Nancy age 50 SC
Alfred Allice 30 mechanic 1600 PA (their son-in-law)
Next door: (res 154) David M. Jones 38 M Carpenter 1000 VA
Lidia 34 F MS
P.T. Hall 22 M Farmer MS
Felix G. Hall 13 M MS
H.M.C. Hall 10 M TX

1860 DeWitt , TX -
(Lovelate) James 67 TN
Nancy 60 b S.C.
(residence 302)

Mabra Jones 40 KY (their son-in-law)
Sarah 39 MO
(kids listed)
(residence 298)

1860- May - from: "History of DeWitt County, TX"--DCHS (1991)
p185 Church of Christ at Victoria, Elder James Lovelady; May 1860 he requested a preacher to come to this "large and vacant field". Churches at Victoria, Yorktown, Golilad, Beeville

After 1860:
Letter from Mary (g-daughter) dated Dec 22, 1862 states: "He asked about Grandma & Pap (James Lovelady) he said if he knew where to write to he would write to them.... We have not heard from any of you nor Grandma and Pap."
(Nancy living in 1862)

probably between 1866-1970)
Letter from Frances (wife of George, Mary's brother, g-daughter-in-law of Loveladys) wrote from Red Rock (Central TX) in May (no further date) "Pap started down to Lavaca about two or three weeks ago. He went by Mary's. I expect he will stay there some time."
Mary was in Oak Hill, near LaGrange, TX, Oct 17th '70, per dated letter. (county?)
(This is apparently after the war as it is said that George lived in near Schulenburg in Lavaca Co. at that time, later moving to Central TX. Nancy must have died by this time.)

1870 - cannot find

1880 San Saba, TX George Jones 39 MO (Father KY) (Mother MO)
Frances 29 TX MS MS
(kids listed)
Lovelady, Jas 82 boarder minister of Gospel TN TN TN
(don't think his parents were born in TN, however they were married there; so, likely error on his part)
________________
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/index.html

Sep, 1831, Tarbo Grove, Lafayette Co. MO Christian Conference,
Restoration Movement

NAME INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER
PART I:

by Ruth E. Browning
-----------------------------------------------------------
Letters with information about the churches, obituaries, death notices, names of subscribers, letters from preachers, etc. were published in the Christian Messenger. These have been abstracted with information of genealogical interest. Search for all possible spellings of names--often times I may have copied names wrongly due to the poor print of this reprint or it may be spelled "wrongly" in the original. In Part I the main entry is in alphabetial order by surname. A death reference is in bold face. In Part 2 information is entered by the volume of the Christian Messenger.

Lovelady, Js Independence,Mo. 1834 1835 1836
Lovelady, J reporter for Platt co. Mo 1840; elder at Bear Creek,
Platte co Mo 1841

Lovelady, Js. Huntsville, Mo 1835

Young, Duke Lexington, Mo. 1834 Missouri (Jackson Co?) 1836;
Lafayette Co. Mo 1840; elder at Republican, Lafayette co Mo
1841

Bounds, Js Lexington,Mo. 1833 1835
Elliott, A Athens, Ky 1833; Lexington, Mo 1836
Zachariah Linville - (not found)
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http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/resources/index/index.html
PART 2
Vol. 5 Jan. 1831-Dec. 1831

Christian Conference for Missouri met in September in Tarbo grove, La Fayette County. (Letter from Joel H. Haden, Retireing Valley, Howard Co.). Elders present: Thomas McBride, Duke Young, Zachariah Linville, Sion Bradley, Bryam Lewis, and Joel H. Haden. Unordained: Richmond Roberts, William Burton, James Lovelady. Lovelady was made an elder. Letter mentions that followers of Joseph Smith are settling in Jackson County near the boundary line, perhaps 100 in number, and plan to rebuild the Temple.

http://www.viptx.net/vcgs/cemetery.html#memorial
Victoria Co, Texas; Memorial Square Cemetery, listed as "Parson Lovelady"
Gladys Arnold provided names of those known to be buried in this cemetery
(361-575-0560)

Birth:
some think Sevier county, but not sure why.

Research Notes:
1850 census: Jasper Co, Mississippi
Residence 329/350
(Ancestry transcribed this name as Gragson)
Lee Grayson 50 farmer 1000 Kentucky
* Biddy (Bridget "Biddy" Parker) Grayson 36 1814 Mississippi
Mahalia Grayson 22 1828 Mississippi
Mary Ann Grayson 21 1829 Mississippi
Emiline Grayson 19 1831 Mississippi
Andrew J. Grayson 17 1833 Mississippi
Oliver Grayson 14 1836 Mississippi
George Grayson 13 1837 Mississippi
Sarah Ann Grayson 11 1839 Mississippilee
Claiborne Grayson 10 1840 Mississippi
Lucretia Grayson 9 1841 Mississippi
William Grayson 7 1843 Mississippi
Dorinda Grayson 5 1845 Mississippi
Thomas Grayson 3 1847 Mississippi
Alert G. Grayson 2 1848 Mississippi

residence 330/351
James D Lee 45 1805 farmer Georgia Doctor
Rebecca Lee 38 1812 Tennessee
Rebecca Jane (Street) Lee 16 1834 Mississippi
William Lee 14 1836 Mississippi
Caroline Lee 12 1838
Mary Lee 10 1840
Sarah Lee 9 1841
Amanda Lee 8 1842
James H Lee 2 1848
Eliza Julia Lee 0 1850
Margaret Grayson 4 1846 Mississippi
(prob child of family above)

residence 331/351
Thomas Woodward 28 1822 farmer South Carolina
** Elizabeth Louisa (McBride) Woodward 22 1828 SC
William McBride 5 SC
Eleanor L McBride 3 1847 SC
WILLIAM C BOUNDS 45 1805 farmer Tennessee <<<
Nancy Anne (Freeman) Bounds 31 1819 Tennessee
Jesse M Bounds 16 1834 laborer Mississippi
Talitha Bounds 13 1837 Mississippi
William A Bounds 11 1839 Mississippi
Elizabeth Bounds 9 1841 Mississippi
Nancy C Bounds 4 1846 Mississippi
*** Jane Clark 50 1800 North Carolina
**** Julia Wilcox 22 1828 Mississippi


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* Thomas McBride & Martha Brink
daughter: Elizabeth McBride b 1835
m Thomas Lovelady Bounds b 1824
s/o John Bird Bounds & Elizabeth Lovelady (Jas L sister)

Nancy Jane and Elizabeth McBride are sisters.
Thomas and John are brothers

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** Bridget "Biddy" Parker Grayson b 1814
Her family seems to be:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4580007/person/624433109
William Jacob Parker (s/o John 1731 & Rhoda Renfro 1726
abt 1786 TN
d 1860 MS
Lucretia Bradley Davis 1786 - 1850
William Parker 1808 - 1870
Martha Bridgett "Biddy" Parker 1810 - 1866
Levi Bradley Parker 1812 -
Thomas Parker 1814 -
Sarah Parker 1816 - Mary Parker 1818 -
ADDISON PARKER 1820 - 1880
John BOUNDS PARKER 1823 - 1861
Jessee S Parker 1824 - 1893
Elizabeth Parker 1825 -
Jacob B Parker 1828 - 1850
James William Parker

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ms/jones/messages/598.html

Note: brothers named Addison and John BOUNDS Parker.
There is a Addison Bounds b 1796 TN to Obediah and Patterson.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Parker/Bounds marriage:
Mary Alice Bounds b 1876 m William H Parker
dau of John Armstrong Bounds 1837 and Nancy Jane McBride

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Also a Parker/Cooley marriage, might be a different line of Parkers
Joshua Duncan Parker b 1855 m Susan Maria Cooley b 1869
(earliest Parker is Thomas Parker 1716 NC)
Susan Cooley is dau of Margaret Butts Cooley, dau of Jane Lovelady, daughter of James* Lovelady


Parker/Dyer marriage:
William Dyer b 1864 m Della Parker (her father not yet ID'd)
son of Jane Lovelady, sister to James* Lovelady


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*** Jane Clark 1800 NC (50 yrs old)
Nancy Ann Bounds b abt 1770 m Isaac Clark b 1794
child: Tempy Clark 1812

Nancy is dau of Jesse A. Bounds, Sr b. 1730 and
Nancy Ann Bird

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**** Julie Wilcox later married Alfred Allee, who was widowered by Ann Lovelady, daughter of James Lovelady. unsure of her relation at time of this census. Her sister married a Jackson Jacobs whose brother lived next door to James Lovelady in 1850. again, relation not determined.

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** FURTHER INFO FOUND ON BRIDGET PARKER:
___________________
Bridget Biddy Parker 1814 Mississippi
father Jacob Parker abt 1796 Tennessee aft 1860 MS
mother Lucretia Bradley Parker b 1796 Georgia aft 1850 MS

1853 JASPER CO., MISS. PROBATE COURT RECORD-REF: THE HEIRS OF LUCRETIA PARKER

probate court record (acquired from MS Dept. of Archives and History in Jackson) dated 1853 from Jasper Co. MS which lists her heirs, as follows:

"In the matter of the Estate of Lucretia (Bradley) Parker deceased for sale of land.

On reading and filing the petition of William Parker, Administrator of Lucretia Parker deceased, It is ordered by the court that Mary Chambers and Thomas H. Chambers her husband, Beedy Grayson and Lee Grayson her husband, Sarah
Davis and Thomas Davis her husband, Elizabeth McDonald and Henry McDonald her husband, Levi B. Parker, Jacob Parker, Thomas Parker, John Parker, the heirs of James D. Parker, deceased, and the heirs of (empty space here) Hargrove, deceased who was the wife of James A.Hargrove be cited to be
and appear before this court on the third Monday of May next, uniting then and there to answer said petition and to show cause if any can why the lands, teniments and hereditaments described in said petition should not be sold;
and that said petitioners cause said citation to be published in the Whig Intelligence, a newspaper printed and published in the town of Paulding Jasper County Mississippi for the space of six weeks successively citing these said
heirs and all persons interested in said lands to be and appear at the time and term aforesaid to show cause as aforesaid."

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=barjeanf&id=I4256

- - - - - -
Jacob Parker of Wayne died between 1820 and 1830.
His family went to Hinds County and later to Jasper
before going to TX. He was married to Lucretia Bradley.

http://genforum.genealogy.com/ms/jones/messages/598.html

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Residence:
Father bought property at Falling Waters, now Putnam County, Tennessee.

Property:
1828 Nov 15: 40 ac. James Lovelady 15 Nov 1828 s36 T50 R33
(from Record of Original Entries to Lands in *Jackson County, MO; O.B. & Joanne Chiles Eakin (1985)).
* Jackson Co formed from Lafayette Co in 1826
(Karl Kiser)

Wikipedia:
sold (by France) to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
In 1821, Jackson County became part of the newly-admitted state of Missouri. Jackson County was organized on December 15, 1826 ... Its county seat was designated as Independence, which was at the time only a minuscule settlement near a spring.

Census:
Name: James Lovelady
Home in 1830: Jackson, Missouri


Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 James
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: (1821-1825) 2
Sarah (9, gave b.d. as 1820) Jane has to have the older time slot because of her marriage date (1835). Sarah must have been younger than Jane.
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: (1801-1810) 1 Nancy (1800)

Free White Persons - Under 20: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 4
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 4

note: when looking at the actual census page, there is a mark for a female age 10-15, which would be Jane; then Sarah and Ann would be the two daughters 5-9. With a total of 5 persons.
list of residents on page 3
Aikman Abrander
Towler Robert G
Marters William
Ford William
Manship George
Linville Thomas(poss father-in-law if Nancy is a Linville)
Linville James (son of Thomas)
Linville Thomas (Jr. - son of Thomas)
Trapp Jeremiah (Abraham's mother in law)
Linville Abrcham (son of Thomas)
Parish William
Linch Sarah
Lewis Joseph
Campbell Joseph
Bowers William (hus of Catherine Linville dau of Thomas)
Johnson Ellot
Francis William
Lovelady James <<<
Self John
Welch James
Young Chesney (m Rachel Lewis 1829; Eliz Sanford 1838)
Johnson John
Russle Joseph
Lewis William
Ross James
Boggs Lilburn W
Lilsus Huon
Owens Samuel C


Property:
William Bowers and wife Catherine Linville and James Lovelady, paid for these same 80 acres from BLM on Nov 1, 1830, approx 16 months before selling (Dec 24, 1831) the very same property to Thomas Linville (brother to Catherine Linville)

"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832

Religion:
Christian Messenger: Part 1: (by Ruth E. Browning)

Christian Conference for Missouri met in September in Tarbo grove, La Fayette County. (Letter from Joel H. Haden, Retireing Valley, Howard Co.). Elders present: Thomas McBride, Duke Young, Zachariah Linville, Sion Bradley, Bryam Lewis, and Joel H. Haden. Unordained: Richmond Roberts, William Burton, James Lovelady. Lovelady was made an elder. Letter mentions that followers of Joseph Smith are settling in Jackson County near the boundary line, perhaps 100 in number, and plan to rebuild the Temple.


Property:
William Bowers and wife Catherine Linville and James Lovelady, paid for these same 80 acres from BLM on Nov 1, 1830, approx 16 months before selling (Dec 24, 1831) the very same property to Thomas Linville (brother to Catherine Linville)

"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832


Religion:
History of Jackson County, Missouri (Google Books)
copyright 1881
Page 651
"The early log houses of worship gave place to frame buildings and the frames, in many instances, have been succeeded by substantial brick edifices, for instance the New Salem church has passed through all three of these stages of progress. Rev. Joab Powell was one of the first pioneer preachers in this county, James Savage, Gabriel Fitzhugh, JAMES LOVELADY and William White were also pioneer preachers."

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA651&lpg=PA651&dq=christian%20church%2C%20missouri%2C%20powell%20%2Blovelady&sig=h3GehkqTTL8_EcHKY3wtQwAzMW4&ei=JDfMTaufDuiB0QHw09XFBg&ct=result&id=CH0UAAAAYAAJ&ots=tP7locbThx&output=text

Property:
Missouri Miscellany, Woodruff, (1976),
William Bowers and his wife, Catherine and James Lovelady and his wife, Nancy to Thomas Linville, sum of $120.00, East 1/2 of the SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres,
Wit, George Manship, JP,
Recorded 31 May 1832.

Bureau of Land Management, The east half of the southwest quarter of Section 36 in Township 50 of Range 33, 80 acres as Tenants in common with William Bowers

Residence:
referenced in letter from nephew Joseph R. Young written on 28 Dec 1866. Joseph remembered: I fought at your old place near Blue Bridge.

I thought of the time that Branch run blood when you [ James Lovelady] lived there. [Battle of the Mormons, Kaw township, Jackson county, MO, Oct. 1833]

Religion:
Christian Messenger (No column headings)
locations of preaching -- I guess

Lovelady, Js Independence,Mo. 1834 1835 1836


Religion:
Performed the marriage of William Linville and Leah Bowers 9 Jul 1834 in Jackson Co, Missouri.

Religion:
The Christian Church in Missouri, Chapter XXI, Platte County; page 364.
"Founded by James Lovelady, James Cox, James McBride, and Elihu Randolph, local preachers who resided in the neighborhood.
Charter members:
James White, Polly Lovelady, Jane Lovelady, John Bounds, Elizabeth Bounds, Andrew Henson and Nancy Lovelady, (now Mrs. Newby)"
snip
In 1840, James Lovelady, James Cox and James McBride moved to Oregon" (James Lovelady went to Texas, not Oregon.)
(see attachment)


Religion:
Christian Messenger (No column headings)
locations of preaching -- I guess

Lovelady, Js. Huntsville, Mo 1835


Census:
Platte Co. MO Tax List, (1839), also, William Lovelady, Thomas Lovelady, Moses Lovelady and Richard Linville, Abraham Linville, John Linville, Granville Linvill e and Harrison Linville.
Also Stephen Jones and John B. Bounds who married James' sister Elizabeth.


Religion:
Christian Messenger (No column headings)
locations of preaching -- I guess

Lovelady, J reporter for Platt co. Mo 1840

Other-Begin:
Performed the marriage of his brother Andrew Jackson and Judah Newby on 2 Jun 1840; recorded 22 Aug 1840. Signed James Lovelady, C.C.C.

Census:
page 1 closes out on 24 Nov 1840

1840 Platte Co, Missouri
(ancestry scans numbering, pg 22 or 92)

Nathan Newby
2nd married to Nancy Bounds who was 1st married to Jesse Lovelady, brother of James*. His daughter Judah m Andrew Jackson Lovelady, also James* brother.
1840
Name: Nathan Newby
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 (1831-1835) son 2
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826-1830) son 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 (1791-1800) Nathan
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 (1831-1835) dau 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 (1801-1810) Nancy Bounds Newby
_________________
Thomas J. Lovelady
Thomas J. and Amanda Mary Bounds
(Thomas is James brother; and Amanda Bounds brother is
married to James sister Elizabeth)
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Andrew (1)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Thomas (8)
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 Preston (12)
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Thomas (34)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Ann (1)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 Eliza (3)
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 Margaret (15)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Amanda 29
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1


___________
William M. Lovelady
Name: William M Lovelady
brother of James* and John W and Elizabeth
Andrew Jackson another brother whose wife, Judah Newby, dau of Newton Newby.
Newton Newby 2nd m Nancy Bounds, dau of yet another Lovelday brother Jesse.

County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 2 (1811-1820) William (not married yet); Andrew Jackson b 1815
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826-1830) Judah Newby (1826)
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 (1771-1780) prob Jane Wear Lovelady b 1769

Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 4
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2
(father of these Lovelady brothers Thomas died 1830; mother Jane Wear d 1860.

____________
James White

_____________________
Joseph Shammon (Shannon?) unidentified Mabra M Jones, b. 1792, Virginia, m Lily D (Silla) Shannon, b. 1797, Kentucky 15 Jan 1823 in Henry Co, Kentucky (see Mabra M Jones 1850 census)

Name: Joseph Shammon
[Joseph Shannon]
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 (1791-1800)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 9
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 7
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 9
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 9

______________________
Joseph Davis
Henry Bradley

____________
Nov 1840:
____________
Name: James Lovelady
County: Platte
State: Missouri
James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Jane: married 1835; so she's gone.
Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mara at Stephen's.
Ann married in 1847. If this is Sarah -- then where is Ann? Ann would be under 10 per the 1830 census when she wasn't born yet. This has to be Ann even though it's the wrong age group. That means Sarah isn't accounted for here.

________________
John Lewis
Thomas Easburn
Nathan Towe
Benjamin Yocum

___________________
John Young
Name: John Young
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 John
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 (1821-1825) (dau)
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 (spouse)
(this is probably 2nd wife; no wife was indicated in 1820)

Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 2

____________________
Lewis Edwards
John McAdam

___________________
Thomas s. Dyes [Thomas S. Dyer]
Name: Thomas S Dys
[Thomas J Dye]
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: (1811-1820) 1 Thomas
Slaves [sic]- Females - 10 thru 23: 1

Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 2
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 1
Total Slaves: 1
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 2

comment: Looking at the image, there is no mark in the slave column. Appears to be a translation error.
The couple were newly wed as they were just married in Oct.

___________________
ancestry scans page 14 of 92

Name: John Linville
(Son of Richard, brother of Harrison, 1st cousin of Nancy Linville Lovelady

County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Richard (5)
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 John (8)
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2 William (13)
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 John (40)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Julia (2)
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 Nancy (37)

-----
John Scott
Nathaniel Scott
-----

Andrew Brown
Name: Andrew Brown
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 8
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 3
No. White Persons over 20 Who Cannot Read and Write: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8



------
Rachel Cox


____________________
ancestry scans page 12 of 92
Richard Linville
Name: Ruhard Lenville (father of Harrison; brother of Thomas (Nancy Linville Lovelady's uncle)
[Richard Lenville]
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 Richard 63
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 1811-1820
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 molly 60
Free Colored Persons - Males - 36 thru 54: 1 1786-1804
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 2
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1

________

Name: Harrison Lenville (son of Richard Linville, brother of John, 1st cousin to Nancy Linville Lovelady)
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 (1801-1810) Harrison (1813)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Mary (2) Harriet (1)
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Nancy Bounds (1819)

Harrison Linville married James Lovelady's niece.
James' sister Elizabeth's child Nancy Bounds
_____________________
ancestry scans page 10 of 92
J.B. Bounds
______________________

______________________
ancestry scans page 26 of 92
George W. Yeochum
______________________
ancestry scans page 28 of 92

Stephen Jones

______________________
ancestry scans page 30 of 92
Jesse Yoacum


_______________________
ancestry scans page 32 of 92
Moses Lovelady
Name: Moses Lovelady (James* 2nd cousin 1 removed)
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Elijah 11
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1 1821-1825
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 moses 37
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Rebecca,1; eliz 3
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 Sarah 6
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2 susan 15, malinda 11
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 nancy ward 37

________________________
Washington Dyer


_______________________
ancestry scans page 34 of 92
Rodham Jones


_______________________
ancestry scans page 40 of 92
Thomas Campbell
George Campbell
________________________
ancestry scans page 42 of 92
George Jones

________________________
ancestry scans page 44 of 92
William Jones


________________________
ancestry scans page 66 of 92
Name: Abraham Linville (Nancy's brother?)
[Abraham ??Ville]
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 John T (abt 8)
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Abraham (35)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2 Catherine (4), Mahala (5)
Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 (1831-1835) Jemimia
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 1 (1826-1830) Sarah/Sally
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1 (1801-1810) Nancy
________________________

Religion:
Christian Messenger (no column headings)
elder at Bear Creek, Platte co Mo 1841



Residence:
1867 Voter registration: how long in the state of Texas:
23 years.

Census:
James Lovelady and M.M. Jones listed

Religion:
Victoria, Crossroads of So TX, (1982), FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF VICTORIA, TEXAS
In Deed Book 4, page 145, Victoria County Courthouse, the following entry was made 28 March 1849

"We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government as those held by the Denomination usually called Christians, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 20th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of 'The First Christian Congregation of Victoria'. In order that we may recieve the benefits of said act we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovelady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, as may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof, we hereunto Affix our names this 28th day March A. D. 1849."
Signed, Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
1850 Victoria, Texas Census: (res: 153)
James age 53 farmer 600 TN
Nancy age 50 SC
Alfred Allice 30 mechanic 1600 PA (their son-in-law)

Next door: (res 154)
(relation unknown)
David M. Jones 38 M Carpenter 1000 VA
Lidia 34 F MS
P.T. Hall 22 M Farmer MS
Felix G. Hall 13 M MS
H.M.C. Hall 10 M TX





Religion:
On record as having performed marriages in Lavaca County during this time period.

Possessions:
Bill of Sale of the home of James Lovelady to Edward Fink, Lot #1, Block 117, Range 8, Victoria, April 24, 1852.

Residence:
Letter from Margaret Butts,addressed to her father Andrew Jackson Butts, Bear Den Post Office, Texas. Wishes her mother and grandfather to read the letter and write her back. "Mother" has to be Susan Bounds Butts, as her birth mother Jane Lovelady had passed when Margaret was only 10 years old. Grandfather would be James Lovelady.

Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas
John F. Graves 25 1835 blacksmith Virginia

residence 299
Parker, M. 59 1801 Georgia (Matthew)
Elizabeth 49 1811 Tennessee
Amanda 17 1843 Texas
Mary T. 15 1845 Texas
Susan 10 1850 Texas
Isiah 8 1852 Texas
M.A. 5 1855 female Texas

residence 300
Parker, A.H. 23 1837 Texas (Alexander H.)
Elizabeth 23 1837 Alabama (Mary Elizabeth Ann P. Caddell)
Mary 1/23 1860 Alabama

residence 301
Jones, Enoch 74 1786 Delaware
Nancy 67 1793 North Carolina
Lewis B. 22 1838 Mississippi
Rabb Ulesses 29 1831 Texas
Rabb Malissa 27 1833 Mississippi
Tumlinson, Robert F. 7 1853 Texas
Rabb, L.B. 3 1857 Texas
Rabb, Paul M. 10/12 1859 Texas
Steddom, N.B. 13 1847 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

residence 303
Jacobs, G.W. 37 1823 Mississippi
Ellena 35 1825 Mississippi
Nancy T. 8 1852 Mississippi
Emeline E. 6 1854 Texas
Mary 2 1858 Texas

residence 304 (prob not related)
Stewart, Joseph 44 1816 Tennessee

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written as Lovelate.)



Religion:
performed marriage of Mabra Jones and Martha Ponton.

Other-Begin:
Letter from Joseph R. Young, nephew, son of Duke Young and Sarah Lovelady, James sister.

Residence:
August 1867 voter registration: how long in the county and precinct 4:
7 mos.

Residence:
Name: James Lovelady
Birthplace: United States
Registry Date: 2 Aug 1867
County: DeWitt
Line Number: 665
Archive Name: Texas State Library and Archives
Archive Collection Title: 1867 Voter Registration Lists
Archive Reel Number: 4

next entry:
George W. Jones

Religion:
On record as having performed marriages in Lavaca County during this time period.

Residence:
Mary writes, "I had lost all trace of Pa's and George's whereabouts. I had written to Henry Shapes to know if he knew where Grandpa was. I have not received an answer."
"Mr. Dabney and Brother came by on their way home from Lyons where they had been holding a meeting. He said they had seen Grandpa and George."
Lyons is in Burleson County, but this only indicates there were at a meeting there. Perhaps they were living nearby. Frances writes a letter, estimated as 1877, stating she had "not heard from Burleson" She and George were in Red Rock and she stated that James Lovelady had left there - so, not sure who was in Burleson.


Census:
Frances living in Red Rock, dates her letter simply "May." Guessing this is about 1877. She writes to Susan Bounds Butts
"Pap started down to Lavaca about two or three weeks ago. He went by Mary's. I expect he will stay there some time. I got a letter from Mary the same day I got yours. She was well and doing well."
Leonard surmised Mary was in Burleson, but that would not be enroute from Red Rock to Lavaca. Perhaps this was after Nancy died, or perhaps it was after Mr. Norton died. Mary might have still been living near LaGrange.



Census:
In 1880 Census, James Lovelady age 82 is living with George and Frances, San Saba Co, Texas, (abt 120 m NW of Austin, halfway between Austin & Abilene).
153/153
George Jones 39 farmer MO KY MO
Frances 29 TX MS MS
James 11 TX MO TX
George 8 TX MO TX
Drusie 2 TX MO TX
Lovelady, Jas 83 TN TN TN (minister of the Gospel, boarder)

Buried:
Findagrave memorial #135883275
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=135883275


http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txvicto2/cemetery.html

James* married Nancy* Linville (maybe), (dau?) between 1814 and 1817 in White Co, Tennessee. Nancy* (daughter of Thomas* Linville, Sr. and Jemimah* Campbell) was born in 1800 in South Carolina; died before 1872 in Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas; was buried in Memorial Square Cem, Victoria, Victoria Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1 Nov 1830, Jackson Co, Missouri; bought
• Property: 24 Dec 1831, Jackson Co, Missouri; sold
• Religion: Abt 1832, New Salem Church, Jackson Co, Missouri
• Religion: Abt 1835, First Christian Congregation, Platte Co, Missouri
• Census: Nov 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Religion: 28 Mar 1849, First Christian Congregation of Victoria; church formed
• Census: 22 Aug 1850, Victoria Co, Texas
• Residence: 16 May 1855, Manahuilla Minnuvee Creek at Buzzard Roost Country, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 28 Jun 1856, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 7 Aug 1856, Yorktown, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Residence: 11 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas; per letter
• Census: 13 Jul 1860, Dewitt Co, Texas
• Residence: 14 Aug 1861; per letter
• Other-Begin: 28 Dec 1866, Lavaca Co, Texas; letter
• Research Notes: Abt 1978; from Olive Massie
• Research Notes: 15 May 2011; Linville/Johnson/Young/Lovelady
• Research Notes: 2 Oct 2012; Linville/Lovelady

Notes:

(from Mary Ehlers)
Catherine Linville Bowers and Thomas Linville were the children of a constable of White Co, Tennessee, in 1808 (sic), Thomas Linville, and his wife, Catherine. Catherine died and he married secondly Mary Ridge. He died in Missouri and his will writtn in 1836 was very simple, stating his possessions and leaving them to his wife and the youngest four children - Jeremiah, Hyram H., Andrew and Charity. Two of his older sons, Zachariah and Aaron witnessed the will. Two unnamed daughters born before 1790 are listed in "The Linville Family in America - 300th Annual Edition" by Alice Eicholz. It seems like that Nancy Lovelady was one of these daughters.

(sic) - they married in 1811 in Carter County.


(From Leonard B Meyer)
July 24, 1997
Dear Sherry Sharp:

Your letter came yesterday, and some material from Wilma came today. I told my wife Ruth that it seems I have acquired another fan in Wilma, that making two, Ruth being the other one! I am glad that what I have contributed is appreciated,d I appreciate what I have received also.

Perhaps I should make it clear how I acquired this much information regarding such a limited time span. A few years ago, I got possession of a bunch of old letters and documents far long enough to transcribe them by hand, into three bindef legal paper. I started out trying to learn more about the Butts family from which I am descended, and from there the search proliferated into the Lovelady, Bownds (Bounds) and other families.

My great-grandfather, Jackson Butts, married Jane Lovelady as his first wife. She died August 31, 1847. He married a second wife, Catherine Poland, who died within a year or so, then in 1852 he married Susan Bounds who was my great-grandm. So, you see, there is no blood relationship between me and the Loveladys, except for Jackson's oldest daughter Margaret Ann, who was Jane's only survivor who had children. But Pappy Lovelady wrote to Jackson and Susan as son and daughter, Mary Jones addressed her as "beloved aunt," and Stephen wrote to my grandfather as "Cousin Berry."

I think there is no doubt that the Loveladys, Buttses, and Joneses were in Victoria County in 1844, as one of Jackson's sons, Andrew, appears as born in Texas about that time. Also I have a copy of a handwritten receipt which goes "Receif Jackson Butts the sum of five dollars in full of his state and county tax for the year 1849 - F.U. Fordham, Ass & Coll, V.C., Victoria County."

Also, Ann, the youngest Lovelady girl, married Alfred Allee November 4, 1847. And I have a copy of the Bill of Sale of the home of James Lovelady to Edward Fink, Lot #1, Block 117, Range 8, Victoria, April 24, 1852.

In the statement in the summation sent by Wilma regarding the organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria, about James and Nancy being on the board, there is a little error. Those named, James and Nancy, Jackson, Sarah any Jones, A. Allee (Ann had already died) and perhaps Felix Webb, were the whole congregation!

It must have been in 1852 that the Loveladys and Joneses moved over into Dewitt County on the Manahurla Minnuvee Creek, also called Buzzard Roost Country.

There was quite a lot of communication between the Joneses and Butts families in the '50s. In 1860, George was going to school in Goliad. A letter from Mary goes thus: "We are all about to leave this country. Pap (James) and Grandmaf going to the mountains. They have sold their cattle." There seems to have been a terrible drought that caused many people to leave that area. Added in a postscript at the beginning of the letter is "I have got the sweetest little brother. He can sit along. He is as fat as a pig." That must have been Henry at several months old; and it is apparent that Sarah must have died soon after Henry's birth. So my date of 1860 must be an error of reading an indistinct date.

So, Mabry and Mary, and perhaps others moved to Terryville, on the line between Dewitt and Lavaca Counties. But Susan Mariah must have married to A Wiggins and was still living at Middletown or Weesatche. Susan later lived at Hoss Bluffrty County and urged George to come out there, as that area needed a doctor and singing school teacher. But that was in 1872, after the war! Instead, he seems to have married Frances Bosworth and was living near Schulenburg in Lavaca County. From there, in connection with the Bosworth family, we find him living up in Central Texas, Red Rock, Pettytown, maybe San Saba and finally Stephenville. He and Frances are buried in West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath Co, Texas.

I have no date for Mary's marriage, but she and Mr. Norton moved to Oak Hill near LaGrange, Texas. After several years, they moved to North Texas, then moved back. Mary was living in Burleson County about 1914. According to the reuni, Mary had married a Moore, and Sue had married a Linthicum.

Mary never had any children (by choice), and I am of the opinion that the friction between her and Mabry was because she married and did not continue to take care of his "four little motherless boys" as she put it. Anyway, she tried toe of the boys, as George and Sue did. Mabry farmed the boys out at times, some of them to my great-grandmother Susan. But the 1870 Census reveals that Stephen and Andrew were living with Mabry and Martha then, as well as daughter Nancy and Nellie (b 1864 & 1868) and the 1880 lists a son Joel A, born November 28, 1874.

I am confused about the children of Martha listed as being born in Chambers Co, after Nancy (Nannie) and Nellie, also Joel A. I know nothing about Laura, Tom, Anna, Alice and John, but those named above were in the 1870 and 1880 Lavaca Cos records and must have been in Lavaca Co at that time. Also, it is a matter of record that Mabry officiated at the wedding of his father-in-law, Dr. Joel Ponton, to Harriet Koonce on October 1, 1871, near where I now live in Lavaca Co. However, it may well explain Stephen's reference to having been to Beaumont on one occasion.

Incidentally, I have noticed that Mabry and Sarah had a daughter Nancy J, born 1848, next after Sue. About the name ---- in the document about the Organization of the First Christian Congregation, the name is Mayberry, which no doubt is t, shortened to Mabry usually, but spelled Mabarie by Margaret Ann Butts Cooley.

I have just been checking the list of Mabry's children and the dates given for their births seems to have been made from a faulty memory. Assuming, I think correctly, that the three families came to Texas in 1844, it seems obvious that Ge841 and Mary 1843 were born in Missouri, but there is some doubt about Susan 1846 and Nancy 1848, though I think they were born in Texas. But Cyrus 1852, Stephen 1854, Andrew 1857, were born in Texas because the document of the Organization of the First Christian Congregation in Victoria has the names of M.M. and Sarah, date of March 28, 1849. Henry was not listed in the census of 1860, so his birth date 1863 is probably correct. It is on record that Cyrus Jones was in Goliad Co in 1870, age 18, seemingly living with relatives after the breakup of the Jones family. But in a letter from Mary she wrote that Susan Mariah (Margaret Ann Butts spelled Mariar) wrote that Mr. Wiggins had "joined the church" and that Cyrus intended to. I wonder if this Cyrus was one of the Wiggins children. In this letter Mary complains that Mabry had George and Susan a brother to keep, but had refused to give her one.

As far as I had known previously, Margaret Ann, Jackson's daughter, Sue Wiggins, and George were the only Lovelady descendents, and I am glad to find there were others. I have been trying to find some of the Jones descendents for some ythout success.

I was born, not many miles from where the Joneses and the Loveladys lived, in Goliad County, at a later date, Dec 7, 1906. From that you will notice that I will be 91 on my next birthday. My handwriting has deteriorated considerably spied these letters.

I am sending this information for you to consider, before I send any copies. I will have to go through the letters to find some that will illustrate what I have written. But as I wrote Wilma, I have three binders full of writings, ant want to let them get away, possibly in the mail. I have suggested that Ron Lehde, who lives in Victoria, copy those he wants to, but she/Wilma reports that his copier is in need of repair. Since Sherry Sharp has a son John in Houston, I might make the same offer to him. Or I might leave the material at my son's place, 30211 Charlie Lane, Magnolia, Texas 77355. Maybe something can be arranged.
Sincerely,
Leonard B. Meyer



Property:
William Bowers and wife Catherine Linville and James Lovelady, paid for these same 80 acres from BLM on Nov 1, 1830, approx 16 months before selling (Dec 24, 1831) the very same property to Thomas Linville (brother to Catherine Linville)

"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832

Property:
William Bowers and wife Catherine Linville and James Lovelady, paid for these same 80 acres from BLM on Nov 1, 1830, approx 16 months before selling (Dec 24, 1831) the very same property to Thomas Linville (brother to Catherine Linville)

"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832

Religion:
New Salem Church, Jackson Co, Missouri
abt 1832
History of Jackson County, Missouri (Google Books)
copyright 1881
Page 651
"The early log houses of worship gave place to frame buildings and the frames, in many instances, have been succeeded by substantial brick edifices, for instance the New Salem church has passed through all three of these stages of progress. Rev. Joab Powell was one of the first pioneer preachers in this county, James Savage, Gabriel Fitzhugh, JAMES LOVELADY and William White were also pioneer preachers."
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA651&lpg=PA651&dq=christian%20church%2C%20missouri%2C%20powell%20%2Blovelady&sig=h3GehkqTTL8_EcHKY3wtQwAzMW4&ei=JDfMTaufDuiB0QHw09XFBg&ct=result&id=CH0UAAAAYAAJ&ots=tP7locbThx&output=text

Religion:
abt 1835
First Christian Congregation, Platte Co, Missouri

The Christian Church in Missouri, Chapter XXI, Platte County; page 364.
"Founded by James Lovelady, James Cox, James McBride, and Elihu Randolph, local preachers who resided in the neighborhood.
Charter members:
James White, Polly Lovelady, Jane Lovelady, John Bounds, Elizabeth Bounds, Andrew Henson and Nancy Lovelady, (now Mrs. Newby)"
snip
In 1840, James Lovelady, James Cox and James McBride moved to Oregon" (James Lovelady went to Texas, not Oregon.)
(see attachment)


Census:
Name: James Lovelady
County: Platte
State: Missouri
James Lovelady
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 James (43)
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Ann (1821-1825)
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Nancy (40)
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 3
Persons Employed in Learned Professional Engineers: 1

Girls: Sarah (19) - probably newlywed living with Mabra at Stephen's.
Jane: age unk, but married 1835; so she's gone.
Ann: age unk, she married in 1847 - this is Ann.

Religion:
Victoria, Crossroads of So TX, (1982), FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF VICTORIA, TEXAS
In Deed Book 4, page 145, Victoria County Courthouse, the following entry was made 28 March 1849

"We the undersigned, entertaining the same views of Christian Doctrine, Practice & Church Government as those held by the Denomination usually called Christians, do hereby organize Ourselves into a corporate body as contemplated by an act of the Republic of Texas, approved Jan. 20th 1845. Do authorize the appointment of Trustees in Certain Cases and adopt the name of 'The First Christian Congregation of Victoria'. In order that we may recieve the benefits of said act we hereby constitute and appoint Felix B. Webb, Mayberry M. Jones, James Lovelady, Ann Allie and their successors in Office a board of trustees to take & hold such property both real and personal for the use & benefit of said Congregation, as may hereafter be conveyed to the same. In testimony whereof, we hereunto Affix our names this 28th day March A. D. 1849."
Signed, Nancy Lovelady
James Lovelady
Felix B. Webb
Sarah Jones
M. M. Jones
Jackson Butts
Ann Allie


Census:
1850 Victoria, Texas Census: (res: 153)
James age 53 farmer 600 TN
Nancy age 50 SC
Alfred Allice 30 mechanic 1600 PA (their son-in-law)

Next door: (res 154)
(relation unknown)
David M. Jones 38 M Carpenter 1000 VA
Lidia 34 F MS
P.T. Hall 22 M Farmer MS
Felix G. Hall 13 M MS
H.M.C. Hall 10 M TX

Residence:
letter states simply that "Grandma is not well."


Census:
residence 298
Mabra Jones 40 1820 blacksmith 3500 1500 Kentucky
checked "attended school within the year"
Sarah 39 1821 Missouri
George W. 19 1841 Missouri
Mary M 17 1843 Missouri
Susan D. 13 1847 Texas
Cyrus 8 1852 Texas
Stephen L. 6 1854 Texas
Andrew 3 1857 Texas
M.H. 5/12 1860 Texas

residence 302
James Lovelate 62 1798 minister 300 1,000 Tennessee
Nancy 60 1800 South Carolina

(Ancestry translators had the Jones name spelled Louer, Mabre and Lovelady was written aas Lovelate.)


Other-Begin:
letter from Joseph Young, nephew, son of Duke Young and Sarah Lovelady, sister-in-law.


Research Notes:
Familiar relationships to help confirm Nancy Linville is a Linville - but more info is needed:

Granville Linville m Ann Adeline Johnson

Granville is brother of Harrison Linville who married Nancy Bounds.
Nancy Bounds is daughter of James* Lovelady.

Granville and Harrison's father Richard would be Nancy's uncle.

1850 census, North Carolina: Granville living with his father in law and Nancy Young 15 (b 1835) is also there.

Gan Johnson 68 1783 North Carolina
Nancy Johnson 63 1787 Tennessee
Nancy P Johnson 30 1820 Tennessee
Barnet J Johnson 21 1829 Missouri
Nancy Young 15 1835 Missouri
Granville Linville 40 1810 Tennessee
Ann A (Johnson) Linville 28 1822 North Carolina
John B Linville 7 1843 North Carolina
Washington Linville 3 1847 North Carolina
Ann M Linville 1 1849 North Carolina


Ann Johnson Linville's brother Barnet J Johnson. in 1865 Leavenworth Co, Kansas census:

B J Johnson 36 1829 freighter 21500 MO
_?_ Johnson 30 1835 KY
Robt Johnson 10 1855 KY
Lizzie Johnson 4 1861 KS
Wm Johnson 2 1864 KS
_?_ Neal 31 1834 female KS
Lottie Young 1834 31 MO
Mary Young 5 1860 MO
Jane Young 3 1862 MO

Lottie Young -- looks like she could be a widowed sister or sister-in-law and Mary and Jane nieces - or she could be Mrs. B.J. Johnson's sister

Lottie Young probably related to Nancy Young, same age, living with Gan Johnson in 1850?
or could she even be same person? (Nancy Charlotte or something?)


Duke Young, married Sarah Lovelady, another sister of James Lovelady. he named one of his sons William Johnson Young (b 1818). Johnson name must have connected to Young name, rather than Loveladys.

These Youngs in the Johnson family are likely connect to the Duke Young family somehow. Looks like Granville marrying into the Johnson family is also indirectly marrying into the Lovelady/Duke Young connection. Also, Barnett Johnson might have married into the Duke Young family as well.

research notes:
Duke Young
Granville Linville
Gan Johnson
Barnett Johnson
Nancy Linville

Research Notes:
Linville connections to the children of Thomas Lovelady and Jane Wear -- even though no conclusions this shows the strong kinship of the two families.

However, no Nancy has been found to be recorded in the Thomas Linville family. Also not sure if Linville family was in SC and/or White County TN during time frame to meet up with James Lovelady and marry in c 1815.

1 THOMAS* LOVELADY, SR. & HANNAH HIX
....2. THOMAS LOVELADY, JR. & LEAH HIX
............3. SIMEON LOVELADY & ?
....................4.JOHN LOVELADY & MARY ELLIS
............................5. MOSES JONES LOVELADY& NANCY WARD
.................................. 6. SARAH LOVELADY
Sarah Lovelady who married Zachariah Linville (1829) was dau of Moses Jones Lovelady,
....2. JOHN* LOVELADY AND SARAH* MORGAN
.............3. THOMAS LOVELADY* AND JANE* WEAR

CHILDREN OF THOMAS LOVELADY AND JANE WEAR;

1. SARAH MARRIED DUKE YOUNG
Some Johnston households had some sort of stray Youngs living with them and the two families neighbors in census records. Duke Young married Sarah Lovelady, another of my James' sisters. Can't establish exact connection, but they connect somehow. Duke named a son William Johnson Young. Johnstons connecting Linvilles and Youngs.


2. jOHN W. MARRIED MARY (POLLY) COX
Zachariah and Aaron Linville in 1830 Lafayette Co MO with several related families incl John Bounds, John W. Lovelady and Duke Young, several Johnston/Johnsons


3. JAMES* m NANCY* Nancy b 1800 SC per census records. They married bet 1814-1817 in White County, TN.
Aaron Linville (bro to Zachariah who married Nancy Cash) m Eleanor Ellison 1822 - wonder if that's Allison?) Zachariah and Aaron would be bros to my Nancy - if she's a Linville.
the Zachariah in 1830 census married Nancy Cash was into the Christian/Church of Christ movement along with my James Lovelady and Duke Young and others.
Zachariah's daughter married an Allison (see above) another family line threading thru Johnsons, Bounds and Linvilles and even Trapp.

LAND DEAL:
William Bowers and wife Catherine Linville and James Lovelady, paid for these same 80 acres from BLM on Nov 1, 1830, approx 16 months before selling (Dec 24, 1831) the very same property to Thomas Linville (brother to Catherine Linville)
"24 Dec 1831, William Bowers and Catherine, his wife and James Lovelady and Nancy, his wife, to Thomas Linville sum of $120.00, E 1/2 of SW Quarter of Section 36, Township 50, Range 33, 80 acres. Witness: George Manship J.P., Rec 31 May 1832


4. NANCY WEAR MARRIED OBADIAH BOUNDS
Rachel Linville (dau of Thomas Hunter Linville and Eliza Allison, but I don't know who he is - do you?) m James Lovelady Bounds , son of Nancy Wear Lovelady and Obadiah Bounds - Nancy Wear Lovelady sister of my James Lovelady.


5 ELIZABETH MARRIED JOHN BIRD BOUNDS
Granville Linville m Ann Johnston (Johnson) (SEE ABOVE ABT JOHNSTON/JOHNSONS)
their child Harrison Linville m Nancy Bounds (Nancy's mother is Elizabeth Lovelady, sister of my James Lovelady.


6 THOMAS JESSE MARRIED AMANDA BOUNDS


7 REBECCA MARRIED JUDGE WILLIAM L. TRAPP
Nancy Trapp (1805) m Abraham Linville (1805) I don't have a good database on the Trapps looks like William and Abraham are 1st cousins.


8 JESSE MARRIED NANCY BOUNDS

9 WILLIAM M MARRIED SARAH AMANDA THOMAS (don't know anything abt her)

10 JEMIMA JANE MARRIED ARCHIBALD ELLIOTT

11 ANDREW JACKSON MARRIED JUDY NEWBY
Abraham Linville m Nancy Trapp
their grandson Coriolanus Thorp m Maud Lovelady, d/of Andrew Jackson Lovelady, bro of my James Lovelady.

12 MARGARET A MARRIED ALLEN CROOK

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Lovelady connections to the children of Thomas Linville & Catherine:
J. John Jones d bef 28 Aug 1823
will written 22 Jul 1823
probated 28 Aug 1823

wife Betsy (..) Jones

children
1. Betsy Jones
+ William Galbreath

2. William Jones d bef 1823
+ ??
Betsy Jones
+ Byrd Williamson (1801-1868, son of
William Pullium Williamson
1820 census over 45
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/25499675/person/1987023851

Lewis Jones
Armstead Jones
3. Lucy Jones
+ .. Dickson
William Dickerson (Dickson)
4. Nancy Jones
+ .. Ford
Moses Ford
5. Alsey Jones
+ .. Beard
Jonas Beard


friends: Cyrus Brevard
William Watts 1820 Smith co age 26-44
guardians in trust

exrs Brice Martin 1820 smith co age over 45
Alfred Bevard

wit: William Martin
P. (William Pulliam) Williamson [b NC, d 1828; father of Byrd Williamson
wife Lucy B. Adkesson]

Joseph Wright
29 Aug 1838 [sic] (* typo?)

-William Dickson, possesses such a cruel and unreasonable
adisposition towards Negros that I should be unwilling for
any of those our unfortunate brethern, by my agency, fall
into his hands.


Loveladys in Smith TN 1820
James over 45
Asa 16-25
John over 45
Thomas in Jackson 1820 16-25
Jane in Dickson 1820 16-25
Jesse in Overton 1820 over 45
Thomas in White 1820 over 45


Buried:
http://www.viptx.net/vcgs/cemetery.html#memorial (outdated link)

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txvicto2/cemetery.html
Victoria Co, Texas; Memorial Square Cemetery, - listed as "Mrs. Lovelady"
Gladys Arnold provided names of those known to be buried in this cemetery
(361-575-0560)
-
findagrave.com site for Memorial Square:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2283027&CScn=memorial+square&CScntry=4&CSst=46&CScnty=2754&

Died:
She was alive in 1866 since we have a letter written to her and James by a nephew Joseph Young. Mary writes of her concern of location of ?grandpa? ? James Lovelady in 1872.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Liberty Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
Daniel P Wiggins 53 1797 LA
Lucy Wiggins 52 1798 Georgia
Clark Wiggins 29 1821 Louisiana
Hermes Wiggins 1839 Louisiana
Lucy Wiggins 20 1830 Louisiana
Eliza Wiggins 15 1835 Louisiana
Benjamin Adler 33 1817 Kentucky
Mary Adler 23 1827 Louisiana
Sarah E Adler 5 1845 Louisiana
Martha Ann Adler 1 1849 Louisiana
Louis Williams 16 1834 Louisiana
Thomas Williams 18 1832 Louisiana

Daniel married Lucy Elizabeth Whatley about 1816. Lucy (daughter of Phineas Whatley and Amy Hobbs) was born on 7 Oct 1798 in Augusta Co, Georgia; died on 26 Sep 1878 in Eminence, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in Wiggins Cem, Chambers Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]