Biography of Nancy Green Jones, Randolph Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Bridgette Cohen <bcohen@conwaycorp.net>
        Date:  1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas
Copyrighted and Published 1889 by Goodspeed Publishing Company

Mrs. Nancy Green Jones was born in Nashville, Tenn., in 1829, and is
the relict of Green R. Jones, and a daughter of Joseph W. and
Charlotte C. (Ellis) James, both of whom were born in the State of
Tennessee, the former's birth having occurred, it is supposed, in
Nashville; he died in Pocahontas, Ark., when forty-three years old;
the latter died there at the age of seventy-six years. The paternal
grandfather was born in Scotland, and at a very tender age was taken
to the United States, where, after growing to manhood, he was married
to a Miss Duke, of Virginia, she being a niece of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, of Revolutionary fame. The maternal grandfather was a nephew
of that general. Mrs. Jones has been married three times, her first
husband being William Herbert Allaire, who was born and reared at Long
Branch, N. Y., and was a millwright by trade. He died in 1856 at
Pocahontas, Ark. His father was Alexander B. Allaire, a Frenchman, who
at one time owned the present site of Long Branch, and afterward moved
to White Plains, becoming a wealthy merchant of that place. His father
was Capt. Allaire, of France, who married the Baroness of Breton,
Denmark. The coat of arms belonging to her family is still in
possession of her descendants in New York City. To our subject and her
husband, William Herbert Allaire, were born three children: Fannie C.,
Flora C. and William Herbert, who was a cadet at West Point,
graduating in the class of 1882. He is now a lieutenant at Fort Wayne,
Detroit, Mich. Our subject's second husband was William Evans, who was
born and reared in New York City. During the war he was [p.403] a
Federal enrolling officer, and was shot and killed in his own house,
this act being in retaliation of a Confederate enrolling officer
having been killed in like manner. To Mr. and Mrs. Evans a daughter
was born named Lucy. His widow was married after the war to Green R.
Jones, who died in Pocahontas, Ark. Mrs. Jones is an estimable lady
and for the past thirty-five years has been an earnest and consistent
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.