James Russell Jones was born in 1820 in Alabama. He was in Texas by 1837 when he received a 3rd Class Headright for 320 acres in Washington County. James R. Jones married Margaret Wilman on December 8, 1849 in Burleson County.  Margaret was born in Wurtenberg, Germany in 1832. James Jones is listed as Republic of Texas Taxpayer in Brazos County in 1842. James R. Jones is listed on the Bell County Confederate Service Muster Rolls as a Private in Capt. Milton Damron's Company, 27th Texas Brigade in August 1861. In 1871 James R. Jones transferred 150 acres of land he received in 1854, on the waters of North Nolan Creek, in Bell County to Margaret A. Jones. Children from the U.S. Census 1850-1860 Burleson/Brazos County, 1870 Bell County and 1880 Hamilton County, Texas are: Sarah, Celia, James, Allen, Wise Solomon, Narcissa, Andrew, Margaret, Wiley, Emma, George and Penny, all born in Texas. Wise Solomon Jones (1858TX-1885TX) married Mary Melinda Coward, daughter of James and Eliza Bervilla Mitchell Coward, on December 24, 1877 in Bell County. Mary Melinda (1860AL-1912TX) is buried in Falls County, Texas. Widowed, Mary married a Mr. Tom Barry.  Wise Solomon and Mary Melinda Coward Jones had at least four children:  Cordia Alto, Eliza Ann, Joe Allen, and Charly.  Cordia Alto Jones (1879TX-1964TX) married J.D. Walls; Eliza Ann Jones (1880TX-1968TX)  married James Daniel Welch; and Joe Allen Jones (1882TX-1934TX) married
Laura Caldonia Moring.
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25 June 1999