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Ok, well i hope you have a lot of time to read this because this Jones family has a long history and a huge family. My story starts with two people i never met but i have my Jones family directory of each child adn their children is their legacy the two people that it starts wwith is Robert E & Jessie p. Jones. All there children took time out of there day to wright about there memorys with Robert and Jessie for all the futer jeneration to read.

Brief history of th king and joneses

Joseph Tillmon King adn Leila Billingsley were two of thes earliest settlers of route 1, two miles west of Childress, Childress County. He moved for Earth County in 1886 before the organization of Childress county and before the advent of the railroad to that section. Grandpa King worked for a time grading crews on the Fort Worth ad Denver railroad. Late he went into the freight haulings business, using and eight and ten mule team.

At the time, the entire county was open range. There are now fertile farms in the once deserted prairies. Grandpa king Settled on a Farm soon after moving to Childress County.

The king children grew up on this farm and the farm and the family made this their home continuously. The childrn were John, Elsie (inman), Ella (Jeter), Everett, eppie (Robinson), Jessie (Granny), Joe and henry. Ella and Everett were the first twins born in Childress county. Thay were born February 19, 1888. Aunt ella Died in April,1960 and Uncle Everett Married Lula Mae Jones, Granddaddy's Sister.

Grandpa King was the first to plant cotton in the panhandle. He planted and raised sorghum, millet and other hay producing crops, corn and wheat. He had a ten acre plot of land in peaches and from this orchard he sold fruit to say nothing of the fruit that was canned and preserved for the home consumption.

Grandpa and Grandma King had Dairy Cows, hens and turkeys. They also raised hogs and ad their own butter and milk. They had pork to sell, chickens and eggs. Their skimmed milk proved to be a very important part of their farm industry.

Grandpa King was also the first to bring a steam thrashing machine to Childress county.

Robert E. Jones (Granddaddy) came to Childress as a young man in the early fall 1907. he and his father had been farming for five years in Cleburne and after the boll weevil had eaten up their cotton, he hitched up his mules to a wagon and started west.

Childress county had the greenest-looking pastures so this where he stopped ot make his home.

He rented land and the next year he put in a crop. he met Granny aand they were married November 28,1909. after there marige thay first acquired land northeast of childress known as the old west place . they then moved ot carey on the G. W. Farmer farm living a year at each place.

Grandma king gave them 80 acres on the home place on Route 1, where they built a home which was destroyed by fire in 1945. they then bought a house in town and moved it ot the farm that we all remember and remodeled it inot a seven room home.

Granddaddy was born in Corinth, Mississippi on January 8, 1882 adn went to his hevenly home on May 11 1954

Garanny was born in childress on JUly 21.1892 and went to her heveny home on November 20, 1977 . adn from here the story goes on, and on adn on.....................

oh and by the way the house that grand paw king built is still there and the elementy's vice principal is living there and the land that he settled on has bean in the family for over a 100 years grand paw king has 10 kids don't ask me there names because i don't know

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