Joseph Norton

Abt 1843 - Bef 1880  (~ 36 years)

• Name	Joseph Norton
  	Marriage record shows Joseph. Some records show his name as Morton, but Mary's letters referred often to "Mr Norton." Also she referred to William. Is he a grown stepson?
  Birth	Abt 1843
  Gender	Male
  Residence	17 Oct 1870	Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
  	per letter
  		Letter - 1870, 10/17 from Mary M Jones, now married to Joseph Norton and is living in Oak Hill near La Grange (Fayette Co ?). Writing to her aunt about William wanting to buy her horse Selim. Is William her step-son? linked to: Susan Evaline Bounds, (foster?) (I8850) Cyrus Young Jones, Sr. (I637) Mary Madden Jones (I615) Joseph Norton (I932)
  Residence	18 Dec 1870	Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
  	per letter
  		Letter - 1870, 12/18 from Mary M Jones Norton, to her aunt Susan Bounds Butts. Interesting letter about her life and such. (note: Runie is Runie Stapp, dau of Mary's sister, Susan. Not sure who William and Martha are - perhaps grown step children.) linked to: Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas Susan Evaline Bounds, (foster?) (I8850) Berry Alexander Butts (I9060) Andrew* Prather Jones (I1209) Henry M. Jones (I660) Mabra* Madden Jones, Rev (I583) Mary Madden Jones (I615) Susan Maria (or Mariah) Jones (I626) Joseph Norton (I932) Runie Markley Stapp (I9784)
  Residence	25 Mar 1871	Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
  	per letter
  		Letter - 1871, 03/25 from Mary M Jones Norton to Aunt Susan, about her life and family, etc, including telling Susan "Frances wrote to me not long since. She said for me to tell you your Father (John Bounds) was dead. Her Ma (Martha Bounds Bosworth) had got a letter from some one there." Martha and Susan were sisters, John's daughters. He had died in 1867, four years prior, in Lee County, about 75 miles north of Lavaca County. Sad it took his daughters so long to get word he died. She again mentions "Martha," but not sure who Martha is. linked to: Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas Frances Elizabeth Bosworth (I921) Martha Bounds (I32497) Susan Evaline Bounds, (foster?) (I8850) John Chapman Bounds (Bownds) (I9058) Berry Alexander Butts (I9060) Mary Elizabeth "Lizzy" Butts (I32435) Susan Delanie Butts (I9061) Andrew* Prather Jones (I1209) Mabra* Madden Jones, Rev (I583)
  Residence	23 Apr 1871	Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
  	per letter
  		Letter - 1871, 04/23 Mary M Jones Norton to her Aunt Susan, who lives in Halletsville, Lavaca Co. Speaks of seeds, and other things. Mrs. Upchurch who is mentioned is probably Mary Olevia Beshears Upchurch, wife of Alexander Upchurch. Alexander's mother was Delaney Butts, half-sister of Susan's husband, Andrew Jackson Butts - i.e. her nephew, and is the same "Mr. Upchurch" who Mary's brother George sent his regards to in his letter to John Butts more than 10 years prior. linked to: Big Hill, Jefferson Co, Texas Mary Olevia Beshears (I32899) Susan Evaline Bounds, (foster?) (I8850) Berry Alexander Butts (I9060) Andrew* Prather Jones (I1209) Mabra* Madden Jones, Rev (I583) Mary Madden Jones (I615) Stephen Lovelady Jones (I648) Susan Maria (or Mariah) Jones (I626) Joseph Norton (I932)
  Residence	25 Aug 1872	Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas
  	per letter (sold prop)
  	Mary wrote,"Mr. Norton has sold out he went up to the Northern Texas started the 4th of July staid three weeks was very much pleased. We will move up there this fall."
  		Letter - 1872, 08/25 Mary M Jones Norton to her beloved aunt, lamenting about family affairs and speaks word that Pa had moved into the "Devils Pocket" (?), and speaks of her and Mr. Norton's possible move to Northern Texas. She speaks of a family Rabb. Mrs. Rabb was a Jones, and interestingly enough, they lived next door to the Loveladys and only a two or three residences down from the Mabra Jones in Dewitt County in 1860. However, further research has not found any connection of the two Jones families. Ulysses Rabb served as sheriff in Fayette County in the 1880s. linked to: Oak Hill (near LaGrange), Fayette Co, Texas Frances Elizabeth Bosworth (I921) Susan Evaline Bounds, (foster?) (I8850) Berry Alexander Butts (I9060) Mary Elizabeth "Lizzy" Butts (I32435) Susan Delanie Butts (I9061) Andrew* Prather Jones (I1209) Cyrus Young Jones, Sr. (I637) George Washington Jones, Dr (I604) Henry M. Jones (I660)
  Death	Bef 1880
  Person ID	I932	Roots
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2011

  
  

  Family	Mary Madden Jones,   b. 1843, Missouri d. 05 Oct 1920, Waco, McLennan Co, Texas (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	02 Mar 1869	Lavaca Co, Texas
  	Texas Marriages 1837-1973 Joseph Norton Mary M Jones 2 March 1869, Lavaca, Texas
  Family ID	F325	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2011

  
  

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  Marriage - 02 Mar 1869 - Lavaca Co, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Albums

  Mabra Madden Jones and James Lovelady Families (70) Mabra Jones and wife Sarah Lovelady, daughter of Rev James Lovelady and Nancy Linville (maiden name unproven) - this family settled in Dewitt and Lavaca counties area of Texas before 1850, eventually spreading out to places like Waco and Beaumont and Palestine. This album is dedicated to that family unit. Letters written by some of these family members, mostly Mary Jones, are included. These letters span a time from 1855 on through in the 1920s. They were transcribed and supplied to me by Leonard Meyer in the late 1990s. He was from Halletsville and a descendent of the Butts, Bounds, Coolie families. James Lovelady's daughter Jane died with a young family of her own. Her husband, Andrew Butts, stayed a "son" to the family, even after he remarried Susan Bounds. Susan became the beloved Aunt to the Jones children who most of these letters were written to. While the Jones children were still young, Sarah Lovelady, daughter of James, and sister to Jane, died at an early age. Mabra remarried Martha Ponton and had several more children. But it's through these letters that we get a good view of the whole family and indeed brings them all to life and allows us to share their memories.