James Jones Jr.

• BIRTH 24 Dec 1766 Wake County, North Carolina, USA
• DEATH 25 Dec 1865 (aged 99) Hart County, Georgia, USA
• BURIAL Cokesbury UMC Cemetery, Hart County, Georgia, USA Show Map
• MEMORIAL ID 63231245 Photos by Martha McCaffrey Dobbins

James Jones was the son of Capt James Jones and Charity Alston Note: Founder of the Jones family of Hart County, GA Note: born - Dec 25, 1766 in Wake Co., NC Note: died - Dec 25, 1865 in Hart Co., GA Burial: DEC 1865 Cokesbury Methodist Church Cemetery, Hart County, Georgia. He was married in 1795 to Elizabeth Henderson, b) 1770, d) Oct 21, 1858, daughter of a prominent family of VA & NC. He also served as Revolutionary War Soldier and Methodist

He moved to be near his sister, Rachel Alston Jones, who married Ralph Banks in 1788, and settled on Coldwater Creek, twelve miles from Elberton, GA, James Jones and his bride came to Georgia and settled in what is now Cokesbury community, this being only a few miles from his sister. Here he owned extensive farm lands on the Savannah River, using many slaves to till the soil. James Jones was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In order to have a church in the community, he gave the land on which Cokesbury Methodist Church now stands.

This church was originally known as Jones' Chapel, but later the name was changed to Cokesbury in honor of two Methodist Bishops, Coke and Asbury. The Jones family have been members of the Methodist denomination as far back as is known. The first annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church ever held inGeorgia is said to have been held in the name of James Jones' sister, Mrs. Ralph Banks, who lived in Elbert County on Coldwater Creek. Note: James Jones in buried beside his wife, Elizabeth Henderson Jones, in the Cokesbury Cemetery, six miles southeast of Hartwell, GA.

Parents
James David Jones 1730–1777
Charity Elizabeth Alston Jones 1743–1774

Spouse
Elizabeth Henderson Jones 1770–1858

Siblings
Willis M. Jones 1764–1851
Rachel Alston Jones Banks 1769–1851
David Jones 1770–1842
Thomas Hugh Jones 1771–1852

Children
Enoch Jones 1790–1878
Mary Jones Patterson 1801–1863
James Warren Jones 1809–1877
William Alexander Jones 1811–1896

Warning

not to be confused with this another James Jones with a different family! James Jones DAR Ancestor # : A062255] (Faustine Darsey) History of Elbert County. James Jones b. 4/28/1764 d. 1807 Served in the Virginia Continental Line and later received bourty land in Georgia.James and Elizabeth went to Georgia. Note: Note: James Jones, Revolutionary War Soldier, was born on April 28, Note: 1764 in Virginia and died in 1807 in Elbert County, Georgia. He Note: served on the Virginia Continental Line, and received bounty Note: grants in Georgia. The Roster of Revolutionary War Soldiers in Note: Georgia, by McCall, indicates that James died in 1807, however, Note: this is not true. He was listed on the 1850 Elbert County Note: Census, age 79 (which makes his birth 1771), with his wife, E.,

Note: age 77 or 79. Everytime I search the above James Jones, I Note: confirm that he did not die in 1807. This is an error.

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63231245/james-jones

[2] http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=davidhunterbrown...

Sources

[3] "DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAINJAMES JONES", by James Jones Note: Banks, pg. 104.

[4] Roster of Revolutionary War Soldiers in Georgia, by Note: McCall, page 101; 1850-1860 Elbert County Census; Elbert County

[5] Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 101.

[6] GEORGIA REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS' GRAVES, compiled by Note: H. Ross Arnold, Jr. & H. Clifton Burnham, Volume One

[7] Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, ISBN 0-935931-83-X, Page 216. Appling-Lanier Counties), Copyright 1993,

[8] 1820 Census of Elbert County, Georgia, Microfilm No. 33, Note: Roll No. 8. James Jones is living in in the Rufus Christian, District of Elbert County