WNC History Timeline

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www.childers-shepherd.org, 3 Feb 2011
Madison Jones + Martha Cox                          George Thomas Hart + Harriet Saforina Fox
1839  - 1869    1843 -  ?                                          1844  -  1903
 SC         NC       NC      NC                                  Bunc Co NC   Elk Valley TN
              |                                                               |
James Regan Jones      +     Mary Catherine Hart
   1865  -  1943               1885        1869    -     1955    
      Bunc Co NC   Bunc Co NC                                 Bunc Co NC   Bunc Co NC
                                     |
                      Epsie Jones, 1887 - 1972
                          Robert H. Jones, 1889 -1940
                          Nellie Jones, 1891 - 1975
                          Arthur William Jones (Nola Rice), 1893 - 1988 (CO)
                          Lula V. Jones (Carlie B. Ramsey), 1895 - 1989
                          Emma J. Jones, 1897 - 1975
                          Sallie Jones (Joseph Allred, William Griffith), 1899 - 1989
                          Ida Mae Jones (Robert Brown), 1901 - 1985
                          Samuel Quick Jones (Ruth Burnette), 1904 - 1978
                          James Carl Jones (Willie James Burnette), 1908 - 1982
                          Mary Katherine Jones (Herbert George Cheek), 1910 - 1996
                          Marjorie E. Jones (Alec Smith), 1913 - 1997
Sources:  US Census, 1900, 1920, 1930, Bunc Co NC;
   US Census, 1910, 1920, Larimer, CO;
   Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree, Bradley family tree; Campbell family tree; Darsow family tree;
  Jones-Burnette grave marker, Piney Mountain Baptist Church, Bunc Co NC;
  NC Death Certificate, Robert H. Jones, 1940;
  NC Death Certificate, James Ivan Ramsey, 1968;
  NC Death Collection, Mary Katherine Cheek, 1996;
  NC Death Collection, Ida Jones Brown, 1985;
  Grave photos, and direct information from Elisabeth Ames Pugh, 31 Jan 2011.
Above: The family about 1905.
Below: Grave at Morgan Hill Baptist
Church, Bunc Co, NC.  (This photo by
Elizabeth Ames Pugh.)
Above: Jones family home in
north Buncombe County, NC.
Photo by Elizabeth Ames
Pugh.
Notes: In 1900, the family was at Flat Creek, Buncombe County, NC, and James was farming.
In 1910, the family resided in Precinct 32, Larimer, Colorado, where James was still occupied as a farmer.
In 1920, the family was in the Ivy district of north Buncombe County, NC. Son Arthur William and his family were at Fort
Collins Ward 2, Larimer, Colorado, and his older brother Robert H. Jones resided with them.
1930, the family was in the Ivy district of north Buncombe County, NC.
By 1940, when Robert died, he was back in north Buncombe County, NC.