Coryell Co. TX - Autobiography of Flavius Marcellus Jones

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                  Autobiography of Flavius Marcellus Jones
                                      
      I was born in Marengo Co. Alabama April 26, 1843 near a little place
      called Jefferson. My father and mother were born and raised in North
      Carolina coming to Alabama when they were young. They were married
      January 14, 1841. My mother died Nov. 6, 1846. Father married the second
      time my Mother's sister Elizabeth Westbrook Aug. 3, 1847. She died May
      16, 1849. He then married Miss Martha Jane Smith, June 12, 1850. Jesse
      Jones, Sr. died Feb. 15, 1883. Martha Jane Jones wife of Jesse Jones Sr.
      died Jan. 22, 1905. We moved to Texas in 1854. Settled in Coryell Co.
      near Eagle Springs. My mother only had two children myself and a daughter
      who died in infancy. My first step mother had none. My second step mother
      had seven, of which five are living. Frances Ida, William Frederick,
      Jesse Croom, James Herbert, Susan Alabama. I was going to school at
      Baylor University in Washington County when the Civil War broke out. I
      went home and enlisted in the army in Company E 26th Texas Cavalry.
      Served four years came home and married Miss Georgia S. Strickland Nov.
      13, 1870. She was raised in Mississippi Oct. 10, 1849. There were born to
      us 8 children all of whom are living except Samuel Westbrook who died at
      the age of 15 months. I have many things to be thankful for in my old
      age. 1st for 7 children who have never given me any trouble. They have
      always been dutiful and obedient. 2nd for good health and strength. I
      have never had a case in the courts of my country nor neither has any of
      my children. Showing that we have been a law abiding family. Flavius
      Marcellus Jones I omitted saying that mother had two sisters they both
      married one man, James Aldridge. Two men married the four girls. Mother
      had 3 brothers John Ivy, Charges and George. John Ivy was a Baptist
      preacher. My father had two brothers David and Frederick. I had an Uncle
      Allen Westbrook also a brother of my mother. He lived in Mississippi.
      When we left Alabama we lived 4 miles from Demopolis, which is on the Tom
      Bigby river.

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