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Mansfield Haymond JONES

Mansfield Haymond JONES

Male 1832 - 1921  (89 years)


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  • Name Mansfield Haymond JONES
    Birth 1832  [1, 2] 
    • Findagrave reports birth date as 1834, which would correspond with his stated age of 21 in his Nov 1855 marriage record as well as his May 1834 birth date in the 1900 Census. But he was age 18 in the 1850 Census, corresponding with the date 1832 on his headstone, Birthplace given in his 1855 marriage record as Tyler County, but in his 1890 marriage record as Doddridge County.
    Gender Male
    Census 1850, 1860  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Medical Condition 1863  [3] 
    "one eye out" 
    Residence 1863  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1870  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1890  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 1900, 1910  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation farmer  [5] 
    Death 1921  [1] 
    Burial Gnats Run Cemetery, near Pennsboro (Co Rd 74/9), Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Person ID I46194  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 19 May 2019

    Father James Rush JONES
    Mother Elizabeth COLLINS,   b. CA 1803, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1885, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 82 years)
    Family ID F22052  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Catharine J. JONES,   b. CA 1836, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7]
    Marriage 29 Nov 1855  Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • 1860 Census, Ritchie Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Jul 7 1860:
      Mansfield H. Jones, 26, farmer, value of real estate $500, value of personal estate $60; Catharine, 23; Columbia F, 3; Victoria A, 1; Clementine Jones, 14.
      NOTE: Clementine was a sister of Catharine (Jones) Jones.

      1870 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay Twp), enumerated on Jul 20 1870:
      M. H. Jones, 36, farmer, value of real estate $1,000, value of personal estate $421, cannot write; Catharine, 34; Columbia F, 13, cannot write; Victory A, 11, cannot read/write; Noah M, 9; Edmund J, 7; M. L. (male), 5.
    Children 
    +1. Columbia Forilla JONES,   b. 1857   d. 12 Jan 1929, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    +2. Victoria A. JONES,   b. 15 Mar 1859, Ritchie Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1924, Parkersburg, Wood Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    +3. Edward J. JONES,   b. CA 1862   d. 10 Dec 1933, Pennsboro, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years)
    +4. Mansfield Lee JONES,   b. 29 Jul 1864, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1949, Gnats Run (Pennsboro), Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    Family ID F18860  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Sarah Ellen MARVEL,   b. May 1842, Indiana Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1920 (Age ~ 77 years)
    Marriage 17 Mar 1890  West Union, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay District), enumerated on Jun 11 1900:
      Mansfield H. Jones, 66, b. May 1834 in WVa, farmer, married 36 yrs (corrected from 44 yrs); wife Sarah E, 58, b. May 1842 in Indiana, married 36 yrs, mother of 5 children (4 still living); dau Hattie, 25, b. Apr 1875 in WVa, single, milliner; granddau Bessie Mires, 12, b. Mar 1888 in WVa; servant Charley Lipscomb, 13, b. May 1887 in WVa, farm laborer.

      1910 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay District), enumerated on Apr 16 1910:
      Mansfield H. Jones, 75, farmer, married 20 yrs (2nd marriage); wife Ellen, 68, married 20 yrs (2nd marriage), mother of 6 children (5 still living).

      1920 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay District), enumerated on Jan 31 1920 in Pennsboro:
      M. H. Jones, 85, no occupation, cannot read/write; wife Ellen, 70.
    Family ID F10535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S638] Headstone (year only).

    2. [S1821] Ritchie County Marriage Records, Harrisville, WV, MR p. 2, Line 23 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11537351&Type=Marriage.

    3. [S2688] U.S. Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 [database on-line], (Ancestry.com and National Archives).

    4. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11792905&Type=Marriage.

    5. [S2203] 1870 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay Twp).

    6. [S123] Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    7. [S1583] Marriage record of daughter.