Caldwell County MO Archives History .....JONES FAMILIES OF LOVELY RIDGE DISTRICT 
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THE JONES FAMILIES OF LOVELY RIDGE DISTRICT, HAMILTON TOWNSHIP 1869
	Narrator:  Rufus Jones

     Rufus Jones is the son of William Jones, who was the son of old Joseph 
Jones, the oldest of the Jones Settlers who flocked to Lovely Ridge 
neighborhood, west of Hamilton in 1869.  There were, in the 70s so many 
Joneses out there that it was quite a problem to keep their families apart.  
Some people called it the Jones neighborhood.
     Joseph Jones, lived two miles west of town.  He was born 1804 in 
Washington co. Maine and witnessed many of the incidents of the war of 1812 
such as the naval engagement which occurred on the Me. coast.  He cast his 
first vote for Andrew Jackson but turned Republican with Gen. Fremont.  He 
married Mary Preston 1825 of the same county and had 11 children, 9 grew up 
and 5 lived out here in his vicinity.  He died Jan. 3 1885 and is buried in 
Highland cemetery.  His daughter Mrs. Nancy Mosher of Hamilton died 1886.  
Another daughter was Mrs. Joseph Jones Jr. who married her cousin Joseph.  
Another son was William Jones who married Catherine Manuel, and they lived in 
Lovely Ridge.  They had as children - Allen (a milk man in Hamilton for 
years), Rufus the narrator, Lillie (Martin), Ida (Guy), James, Sadie (Joiner), 
Hattie, Caddie (Clara), Charlie.
     Another son who lived in the Lovely Ridge district was Daniel who married 
Mary E. Hall of N.Y. and they had Hattie, Charlie.  
     Matilda Jones his daughter who married Joseph Jones had Fred Jones and 
Anna who married Wm. Altman of Hamilton.  The narrator Rufus Jones of the 
above group married Eliza Cramblitt and had several grown children and 
grandchildren.
     Anna Altman had two daughters Rosa Gibson and Mattie Bennett both of whom 
are now grandmothers.  These children of old Joseph William, Daniel, etc. all 
did the same thing, they were trained as farmer-lumbermen back in Maine, moved 
together to Potter county Penn. and from there most of them came to Missouri 
in the late 60s to buy a small farm of 40 acres a piece in the same district.
     Now we pass to the other line of these Joneses, whose father was Robert a 
brother of old Joseph who came here.  The brother stayed in Washington Co. 
Maine.  He had as children Will Henry (the second name to differentiate him 
from his cousin Will) who married Phoebe Sherman back east.  She was often 
called Aunt Phoebe Jones even by outsiders.  They had children Frank, who did 
not marry and Ella who married Judd Van Volkenburg and they moved to Denver.  
The other son of Robert the Maine brother of Old Joseph was Joseph Jones who 
progeny has been mentioned by the treatment of Matilda Jones the daughter of 
Joseph and his wife.  After reading this Jones family, it is not strange that 
people got badly mixed up on them, with their repetitions of names and their 
living in the same neighborhood.  Yet today, there are few of that Jones 
family, especially those who have kept the name Jones in the community.
     The Jones men were in the Union army and William was in Andersonville 
prison suffering an illness from which he never recovered.  Most all of the 
Jones family lie in Highland cemetery, certainly all the pioneer settlers.
     Interview  1934.


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