Jones Burial Ground, Brooks Co. GA Submitted by Kimberly Gandy, gradyco@hotmail.com Visit the Brooks County GAGenWeb site, www.rootsweb.com/~gabrooks *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** This burial ground is located 4 miles south of Quitman on old Madison highway. Turn left on dirt road for approximately 1 mile. Graves are in a wooded area on the right. I don't have any other information on this cemetery. There are only two people buried there. Jones, Francis no date-12/24/1849 Jones, Rachael 11/16/1797 -12/07/1862 *************************************************************************** UPDATE: The following information was received on 11 Mar 2002 from James A. Jones (1grouch@charter.net): The Francis JONES and Rachel you list above are some of my JONES folks. I don't have much on them other than she was an INMAN and I have their marriage date abt. 1823 in Screven County. According to my notes, Francis was the son of James Jones, R.S. (1764-1824) And Elizabeth Mills (abt 1774-1836). I'm not absolutely positive, but I think Rachel's sister, Elizabeth? married Francis' brother, Matthew. If you or anyone else might have "more" on these folks/or their families, I would be very interested in finding out more. ***************************************************************************** UPDATE: The following information was received on 30 Mar 2002 from Jim Blease (leds@datasys.net): According to "The History of Screven County, Georgia" by Dixon Hollingsworth (p 191), which in turn was quoting from "The Young Family of Georgia" by A. C. Felton, Francis Jones, a son of James Jones, was born in 1792 and married Rachael J. Spain. His brother Berrien Jones married Sophie Inman. The Spain family once owned a large tract of land near the little cemetery where Francis and Rachael are buried and what is now called the Old Madison Hwy. was Spain Road on a 1908 map of Brooks Co. A brother of Francis, Thomas, and his wife, Lavinia Young, founded Greenwood Plantation near Thomasville. Eisenhower went there a time or two for the quail hunting. A sister of Francis, another Lavinia, married James Young. Their daughter, yet another Lavinia, married the son of Michael Young, brother of James and Lavinia Young, and I'm descended from them. IF I have figured correctly, Francis Jones is my 3rd great granduncle.