Lydia Alberson was born October 13 1816. Another source says she was b. 1823 in Abbeville County, South Carolina. She married Ransom D Jones who was b. Ocober 14 1819 in Pulaski County, Georgia.
Ransom D Jones was the son of Rev Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones who was born in 1766 in Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina. He lived until January 3 1847.
This family tree provides the descendants of Lydia Alberson Jones and Ransom D Jones.
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John Calvin Jones was born May 13, 1843 near Oak Grove in what was then the Southern District, Dale County Alabama. That district became Geneva County in 1868. He married Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Howell Jones (1852-1925). His parents were Ransom Jones and Lydia Alberson Jones.
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Family tree of Edmund Jones 1729-1790, Rev Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones 1766-1847, Ransom Jones, John Calvin Jones, Anna Jones Justice, Fletcher and Wilton Justice, Irene and Louise Justice,
Sarah Catherine Justice, Tommy Williford
1st generation- Trey and Todd Vickers
2d generation
Sarah Catherine Justice married Steve Vickers
3d generation
Fletcher Justice, Wilton Justice, Louise Justice, Irene Justice
4th generation
Anna Jones Justice married Hillary Justice
5th generation
John Calvin Jones married Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Howell
6th generation
Ransom D Jones born October 14 1819 Pulaski County Georgia – married Lydia aka Liddia Alberson b. 1816 – d. 1893
7th generation
Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones b. 1766 Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina - d. 1847 Charleston South Carolina or Abbeville County, South Carolina- Another source says Dale County, Alabama, where he was living with his son, Ransom Jones
buried Euchee Valley Presbyterian church cemetery, Walton County Florida
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Rev Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones married Nancy McCaskill b. 1799 Scotland - She gave birth to four children who died in childhood. He married Mary B., whose last name is unknown to history, who gave birth to his children who reached adulthood.
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The 1790 US federal census finds Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones living in St Pauls, Charleston
County South Carolina – he owned five slaves
d. 1847 buried Euchee Valley Presbyterian church burial ground, Walton County, Florida
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The 1850 US federal census finds Ransom Jones living in Coffee County, Alabama with his wife,
Lydia Alberson Jones, age 34, born about 1816, living with these children
Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones, age 9, born about 1841
John Calvin Jones, born May 13 1843 near Oak Grove, in what was then Southern District, Dale County, Alabama
Mary C Jones, less than one year old, born 1850
Ransom Jones b. October 14 1819 Pulaski County Georgia
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Ransom Jones married twice
1) Lydia aka Liddia Alberson b. 1816 – d. 1893 their children
Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones b. 1841
John Calvin Jones b. May 13 1843 – d. March 20 1921 buried Wesley Chapel Methodist Church Geneva Co Rd 41 Geneva County Alabama
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Mary C Jones b. 1850
Ivy R Jones b. 1851
Jackson A Jones b. 1853 – d. 1934
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father of Ransom Jones
Rev Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones b. 1766 Abbeville, Abbeville County, South Carolina
d. January 3 1847
married Martha B b. 1776 their children
John Edmund Jones b. 1802- d. 1879
Elexous aka Alexis Jones b. 1803
Nancy Jones b. 1805
Weldon Jones b. 1807
James Capers Jones b. 1814 – d. 1874
Ransom Jones b. 1819
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2d wife of Rev Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones – Nancy McCaskill b. 1799 – d. 1830 their children
David Jones b. 1823 – d. 1826
Sarah Jones b. 1825 – d. 1827
Nancy Jones b. 1830- d. 1834
Daniel Jones b. 1834 – d. 1834
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father of Charles Shepherd Vincent Jones
Edmund Jones b. 1735 Glamorgan Wales - another source says b. 1729 Colleton County, South Carolina
Edmund Jones d. 1790 Colleton County, South Carolina - a copy of his will, proved 1790, is available on line - his original will is deposited in the Colleton County, North Carolina courthouse
Edmund Jones volunteered to serve as a private in the American Revolutionary War – volunteered 1775 for service with South Carolina Salt Catcher Volunteer Company, Colleton County Regiment, under command of Captain James Jones
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Ransom D Jones purchased three separate tracts of land three different years between 1851 and 1858 in southeast Alabama. Alabama land records
indicate he purchased
-80.05 acres on December 1 1851, paying cash at the land office in Sparta, Alabama
-40.15 acres on July 15 1854, paying cash at the land office in Elba, Coffee County, Alabama
-235.48 acres on September 1 1858, paying cash at the land office in Elba, Coffee County, Alabama
Source: US Bureau of Land Management, Alabama Land Records, Alabama
Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat
Index, General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1996.
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He purchased a total of 355.68 acres during a seven year period. One may safely conclude that a
man who could purchase about 356 acres of land in the 1850s, late antebellum era, in rural South
Alabama had plenty of cash. Thus we have established that my (our)great great great grandfather Ransom Jones was a landowner and more than likely a slaveholder.
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The 1880 US federal census finds Ranson D Jones, age 60, living in Geneva County Alabama
with his second wife Mary J Jones, age 44, born about 1836, and these children
Maggie Wells, age 14 – the census taker does not provide any relationship to head of household
James Griggs, age 13 – the census taker does not supply any relationship to head of household
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The 1850 US federal census finds John Calvin Jones, son of Ranson D Jones and Lydia Alberson Jones, living in Coffee County, Alabama with his parents and the siblings noted above ---------------
The database for the National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, indicates
Ransom Jones served with the Choctawhatchee Rangers, organized at Geneva, Alabama, in
January 1863, during the War to Suppress Northern Arrogance 1861-1865. This roster includes his name plus the name of my paternal great grandfather, James Monroe "Jim" Fulford (1843-October 6,1909) who entered service and served with the same company as Ransom Jones. History and coincidence, not to mention love
and romance, often produce uncanny results through the centuries. Neither of these men
lived to realize that the great great granddaughter of Ransom Jones, Bina Elizabeth Barnes (1914-2004) and the great granddaughter of
his son, John Calvin Jones, would marry the grandson of James Monroe Fulford, Jim Frank Martin.
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Jimpsey McGowan, the commanding officer of the Choctawhatchee Rangers, was the father of
Clara McGowan, b. 1843 Decatur County, Georgia, who married James McKinney Vaughan. They were the parents of Daniel Vaughan, who married Anna Brandon. They were the parents of Willie D Vaughan (June 10 1891 - December 26 1970), my maternal grandmother,the mother of Bina Barnes Martin (October 25 1914- December 14 2004) Thus, in this one company, I find one of my paternal great grandfathers, James Monroe Fulford and one of my great great great maternal grandfathers, Ransom Jones, serving as
privates under the command of another of my maternal great great great grandfathers, Jimpsey McGowan. The fact that two of their descendants married each other reflects the reality that in the rural South in the 19th and early 20th century, up until the end of the World War II and the economic improvements that enabled people to replace mules, horses and wagons with horseless carriages, aka trucks and cars, men married a girl who lived in the neighborhood,
due to limited mobility.
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Confederate States Army roster compiled by Tonia Porter, [email protected] February 1998. Taken from handwritten Muster Rolls in the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama. .The spelling in the document is true to the text.
CHOCTAWHATCHEE RANGERS Geneva Alabama January 15th 1863
Under General Proclamation Dec 22/1862
I do hereby certify that the written list is a true Muster Roll of the Choctawhatchee Rangers
enrolled by me on the 12th day of January 1863 at Geneva Ala as Home Guards in State Troops
with their Rank and Age as this will fully show. Given in duplicate this the 15th day of
January AD 1863 William Bush Captain
William Bush died in combat during the war.
NAME AGE RANK
William Bush 57 Captain
Jimsey McGowan 46 1st Lt.
John H Spears 46 2nd Lt
Hezakiah Hendrix 54 1st Sgt
Thos Commander 51 2nd Sgt
Bryant Spears 33 or 53 3rd Sgt
Green Pate 41 4th Sgt
Willson Boswell 43 1st Corp
Jackson Austin ** 47 2nd Corp
William Wilkins 63 3rd Corp
William H Spears 41 4th Corp
T J Domeney 44 Private
M D Schloss 33 Private
Hart McCall 41 Private
Moses Justice 55 Private
Benjamin Gilpin 56 Private
Stephen Hawkins 63 Private
A Ryland 57 Private
Daniel Miller 55 Private
Thos. Crutchfield 44 Private
D T Moore 38 Private
E A Warren 50 Private
H W Laird 43 Private
James Little 35 Private
William J Stephens 41 Private
A D Bowen 48 Private
Sanders Bush 62 Private
H H Wilkinson 35 Private
Emanuel Grice 21 Private
Wm. Grice 21 Private
Ransom D Jones 44 Private
John C Williamson 45 Private
Jas. M McGowan 23 Private
James Monroe Fulford 19 Private
Clark Broxton 45 Private
J R Pouncey 18 Private
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John Calvin Jones, son of Ransom Jones, was born at Oak Grove, in what was then Dale County, Alabama, May 13 1843. He entered service with the Confederate States Army (CSA) at Ozark, Alabama,
in the latter part of 1862 as a private with Company F, 53d Alabama Regiment. He continued
until the spring of 1863, when he transferred to Company K, Sixth Alabama Calvary.
Source: War Between the States, Alabama regimental histories, Alabama State Department of
Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama
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The database for the National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, indicates
John Calvin Jones served with CSA (Confederate States Army) in the War Between the States with the 47th Regiment, Company D, Alabama Infantry, as a private.
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The 1900 US federal census finds
John Calvin Jones, age 48, living in St Paul Methodist Church community, Geneva County, Alabama, with his wife Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Howell Jones, age 37, born 1863 and these children
Anna Jones, age 17, born October 1882
Robert “Bob” Jones, age 13, born about 1887
Samuel “Sam” Jones, age 9, born 1890 or early 1891
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Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Howell Jones never knew her parents. A family headed by James H Howell and his wife, Emily Howell, who lived near Hartford, Geneva County Alabama, raised
her. Someone posted at Ancestry.com data leading a researcher to believe James H Howell and
Emily Howell gave birth to Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Howell Jones. Members of my family, including Mary Ellafare Jones Barnes, the daughter of Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Howell Jones, always told her descendants that James H Howell and Emily Howell
raised her mother, but they did not give birth to her. The person who posted this incomplete Howell family tree included this data:
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The 1880 US federal census finds James H Howell, age 66, b. 1814 in Georgia, living near Geneva, Geneva County Alabama with his wife, Emily Dancy Howell, age 71, and these adults and children: Mary E Dooling age 25;
Francis A Dooling age 19;
Eva E Dooling age 16;
Jimpsey Dooling age 6;
Howell Dooling age 23;
Harvey Carter age 19
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James H Howell married Emily Dancy September 24 1826 Crawford County Georgia
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The 1910 US federal census finds Anna Jones Justice, age 29, born October 1882, living in St
Paul Methodist church community, Geneva County, Alabama with her husband, Henry Hillary Justice, age 37, born November 28 1873 – died March 30
1965 and these children:
Wilton Justice, age 5, born 1905
Fletcher Justice, age 3, born 1907
and Anna Jones’ youngest brother, Sam Jones, age 18, born 1891
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The 1920 US federal census finds Anna Jones Justice, age 39, living in St Paul Methodist church community, Geneva County, Alabama with her husband, Henry Hilary Justice and these children
Wilton R Justice, age 15 – b. January 3 1905 – d. December 1979 at Geneva Alabama
Fletcher Justice, age 13 – b. 1907
Louise Justice, age 7, born 1913
Irene Justice, age 4, born 1916
Mildred Justice, an infant one year old, born 1919
and Sara Elizabeth Childs Justice, age 79, mother of Henry Hilary Justice
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The 1930 US federal census finds Anna Jones Justice living in St Paul Methodist church
community, Geneva County, Alabama with her husband, Henry Hillary Justice, and children
Fletcher Justice, age 23, born 1907
Louise Justice, age 17, born 1913
Irene Justice, age 13, born 1916
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The 1880 US federal census finds Daniel G Jones, born December 1869 –d July 23 1940
son of John Calvin Jones and Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Howell Jones, oldest brother of Anna Jones
Justice, living in Geneva County Alabama with his parents and these children
Mary E Jones, age 8
William Jones, age 5
Matilda Jones, age 3
May Janes Jones, an infant, age 2 months, born 1880
-------------------------------------- The 1900 US federal census finds Daniel G Jones, age 30, living in Grant community, Coffee County, Alabama with his wife Sara Lilly V Jones and these children
Pearl Jones age 4
Herman D Jones age one
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The 1910 US federal census finds Daniel G Jones, age 40, living in Dothan, Ward 1, Houston
County, Alabama, with his wife, Sara Lilly V Jones and these children
Pearl Jones age 14
Herman Jones age 12
May Jones age 9
Max Jones age 5
Glynn Jones age 3
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The 1930 US federal census finds Daniel G Jones, age 60, living in Dothan, Houston County,
Alabama with his wife, Sara Lillie V Jones and these children
Lillie Mae Jones age 25
And Alma Miller, age 50, relation to head of household not indicated
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Daniel G Jones, born December 1869, died July 23 1940, age 66, at Dothan, Houston County, Alabama, where he is also buried.
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The 1920 US federal census finds Bob Jones, born July 27 1886 – died July 1978, brother of Anna Jones Justice, living in Grants community, Coffee County, Alabama, with his parents, John Calvin Jones and Mary Elizabeth ‘Betty’ Howell Jones and his youngest brother, Samuel Jones
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The 1930 US federal census finds Bob Jones, whom the census taker names as ‘Boy Jines’, living in Grants community, Coffee County, Ala, with his wife, Blanch Jones, and these children
Virgie Jones age 18
Earl Jones age 13
Pearlie Merline Jones infant less than one year old
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The mother of Virgie and Earl died before 1930; Bob married Blanche, mother of Merline
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The 1940 US census finds Samuel “Sam” Jones, age 48, youngest brother of Anna Jones Justice,
living at Grants, Coffee County, Alabama, with his wife, Carrie Jones, and these children
Floyd Jones age 18
Winnie Pearl Jones age 16
Roy Jones age 14
Bettie Jones age 8
Billy Max Jones age 4
Rex Jones age 2
Hulon Jones born after 1940
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The 1930 US federal census finds Thelma Jones Canterbury, daughter of William Jones, living
at Panama City, Bay County, Florida, with her husband, Frank O Canterbury, and these children
Guindelle Canterbury age 6 born 1924
Bettie M Canterbury age 2 born 1928
Thelma Jones Canterbury b. Sept 19 1906 – died Aug 27 2002 age 96 at Panama City, Florida
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Researched, written and edited by Jim Frank Martin, Jr. b. January 18 1947 - great great great grandson of Lydia Alberson Jones and Ransom Jones - March 13 2015
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