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The Jones Family History of Priscilla Lee Jones-Barrs is in CD-ROM book form with two volumes. It begins with RICHARD JONES who was born about 1644 in Wales and married MARY about 1675 in Cilycwm Village, Carmarthenshire, Wales. We also have a Jones Family History Website which you can request an invitation by e-mailing Al Barrs at albarrs@wfeca.net.

One of Priscilla's ancestral grandfathes married Phoebe Foster in Orange County Virginia in 1769. It turns out that Phoebe Foster was a descendant of the royal family of Flanders. One of her ancestral aunts, Maud De Flanders, (De Flanders was the family name before surnames evolved. the surname Foster evolved from the origina Forrester because one ancestor was the national forest superientendent of Flanders). Several family members fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings and several went on the Crusades to Palestine.

HUGH JONES born 1718 in Carmarthen Carmarthenshire Wales was the first of Priscilla's family line to immigrate to America. He settled first in Maryland and then moved to Orange County Virginia where he died. He Married Elizabeth Morton in Maryland. When Elizabeth died in childbirth he married Catherine.

George Garnett Jones, Hugh Jone's son, married Phoebe Foster and they eventually moved to Wilkes County North Carolina. There Edmund Jones was born in 1782. He became a General during the Revolutionary War and deeded the original 200 acres of land, including Chapel Hill, to build the University of North Carolina at Chappel Hill NC.

Edmund married, Ann Lenoir, the daughter of William Lenoir. William Lenoir would become a Major General during the Revolutionary War and it was Captain Lenoir who rallied the continental toope at the Battle of Kings Mountain that turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. Several of the Foster relaives were at Yorktown when General George Washington accepted the British surrender.

John Thomas Jones move to propery owned by his father in Smith County Tennessee and began plantation operatios there. He married Elizabeth Ann Gibbs in Smith County. The Gibbs lived next door to John Jones. One of his sons, Henry Franklin Jones, settled in Simpon Coounty Kentucky and married Mary Frances Woods. One of their sons, Walter Washington Jones b. NOV 16, 1894 in Simpson County KY. Walter Jones married Misper Law and they eventually migrated to Volusia County Florida. Their son Marvine Elson Jones, Sr. was Priscilla's father.

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