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.
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in Alicia, Jackson County, Arkansas USA
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