Biographical Sketch of Ellis C. Jones, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Ellis C. Jones, deceased.  Was born in Brooke county, Va., March 20, 
1808, where he was reared and educated.  Lived on a farm.  In 1830 he 
was united in marriage to Miss Hettie C. Boyd, a native of Washington
county, Pa.  Her grandfather, Boyd, living in Pennsylvania in about
1754, with three other children, was taken captive by the Indians who
murdered his mother and burned their dwelling.  He remained a captive
three and a half years.  Her father, John Boyd, was a veteran of 1812.
Ellis C. and wife became parents of eight children, three now deceased,
and five living, viz.: John B., Rebecca, Asenath, Caleb J. W., and
George R.  In 1860 he brought his family to Lafayette county, and sett-
led upon a farm.  He died in 1861 and was buried at Oakland Church 
graveyard.  He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mrs.
Jones is now living on a farm of 400 acres of excellent land, on which
there is a good substantial dwelling, where she and her son John are
engaged in its management.  Her experience during the war was varied
and trying in the extreme, her husband being dead and her sons away,
she was obliged to manage affairs and protect herself and daughters as
best she could.  She, however, proved herself equal to the emergency,
and took hold of the helm and steered their bark with safety through
those troublous times. 

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