Ransom Wiley Jones, Union Parish Louisiana 

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Bryan Price, 8/2005



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Ransom Wiley Jones

Prepared & submitted by W. Bryan Price, Great Great Great-Grandson of Ransom Wiley Jones 
           and Martha McCormick
Source: "A Book of Favorite Recipes" Compiled by the Decendants of John William and 
         Martha Grace Spurlock.
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Ransom Wiley Jones was married to Martha McCormick in the early 1860's in Jasper County, 
Mississippi.  To them were born eight children:  Fountain (Fount), who married Florence 
Miles;  Mary, who married John W. Clark; Frank (Bud) who married Viola Hester, then Jetti, 
Martha Grace, who married John William Spurlock;  Sam who married Mattie Hinton and 
Carrie, who married Tom Miles; and two babies who died.
 
A few years after Ransom and Martha married they moved to Louisiana, reaching Winnfield 
(Winn Parish) where a baby became ill and died.  Mattie had a sister, Liza McCormick Terral 
(married to Sam Terral) who lived in the Nebo Community and who heard they had stopped in 
Winnfield.   Believing that Winnfield was located in an unhealthy place at a very low 
elevation with swamps, the Terrals insisted the Jones family move to Union Parish offering 
their kitchen/dining room (unattached to the family house) in which to live till a suitable 
home could be built.  This separate structure was common to prevent kitchen fires, a common 
occurrence, from demolishing the entire residence. 
 
Ransom and Martha lived in the Mt. Nebo Community for a while and later bought 160 acres 
from Mr. Henry Wilson and relocated in the Bethel Community.  A log house was located on 
the property into which the family moved in 1875, when Martha Grace was two years old.  
This log house served as a home for several families until 1941.  In approximately 1985, 
the log house was demolished.
 
 
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