Barbara Baker

John Earl Jones was my Great Grandfather. He was born abt. 1828, where, unknown. He joined the Missouri Volunteers, in Illinois, Co. "C" 17th regiment of Missouri in 1862. He married my Gr-grandmother (Elizabeth Jane Brisco) in Douglas Co. Missouri in Dec. 1874, but already had children by a previous marriage, and was widowed at the time he married my Gr-grandmother. They went to Texas, where my grandfather was born, and were on their way to Indiana when he died inroute in Arkansas. They left some of those children by wife #1, in Texas as they were young adults at that time.
We know nothing about them, or any info on his background or any other family members prior to his marriage to my Gr-grandmother.

My Grandfather, Ira Benjamin Jones,born 1884 in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. He married Mary Janetta George in 1904. They had four children. Lovie, Sylvia, Grace and Ira B. Jones Jr. After being widowed in 1915, He married Sarah Caroline Barker in 1916. She and Ira had 3 more children, Violet, Theodore and Earl Jones. Sarah died in 1933, and my grandfather never remarried. He died 1968, in California. Buried in Arnold Cemetery, next to both wives, in Swifton, Jackson Co. Arkansas.

My Grandmother. Mary Janetta(George)Jones, Mother of Lovie, Sylvia, Ira, Grace. She died in 1915, when My Mother Grace was 3 years old. Her Family immigrated from Paris, France around 1850.
Her father was Franklin George,and her mother was Esther Elizabeth Ennis. Her Grandfather was Pierre George.
She married Ira Benjamin Jones 1904 in Jackson County, Arkansas.

Luticia Francis Graves was the Daughter of Champ Connor Graves Sr. and the sister of my Grandfather, Christopher Alexander Graves. James Ely Britton was her spouse, and the only time I remember seeing them was When we took my grandfather back to Arkansas from California, to die (he had cancer, unoperable)and we took him to Colorado to see his sister on the way .