Person:Isaiah Jones (5)

If Isaiah was the 2nd child of Joseph and Mary JONES, he was b. ca. 1796 rather than 1792 (as his gravestone suggests), and confirmed by his 1850 and 1860 censuses.

[Isaiah and Leah's] marriage record in Dickore & Thornburgh, Hamilton County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1808-1820, and Wills (Abstracts), 1790-1810 (1959), p.21; md. by D. Hayden, M.G., the same person that Abraham Slaughter, son of Isaac Slaughter, bought his lot from in Montgomery, OH. --John Wayne McCoy <RealMac@@aol.com>. Douglas Pierson Hanke <FAWM42A@@prodigy.com> http://gen.roc.wayne.edu/genealogy/dph/d0021/g0000071.html

1820 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.144B, Sycamore Twp., line 39, ISAIAH JONES, 100100 / 00100 / 01 1 M & 1 F 16-26 (Isaiah, Leah); 1 M under 10 (b. 1810-1820; Griffin); 1 engaged in agriculture.

"Isaiah JONES was a leading member of the Big Shawnee Baptist church, was also prominent in his day as a crier of sales [an auctioneer]. . . . The Regular Predestinarian Big Shawnee Baptist church was organized July, 1829. A presbytery was called together consisting of Elder Johnson and brethren Jess Osborn, Asa SMITH, Roads SMITH, James D. Drake, and John Orr, of Coal Creek* church, and Elder James Buckles, of Sinking Creek* church, Ohio. Elder George Johnson was chosen moderator, and E[van]. W. JONES clerk. The following persons presented letters of dismission from other churches, and were organized into the Big Shawnee church: Isaiah JONES and Leah his wife, James SMITH, David STEPHENS and Susan his wife, Hannah Buckles, Francis [Frances?] WILKINSON [wife of Moses WILKINSON?], and E. W. JONES.

  "Isaiah JONES, farmer, Newtown . . . was the son of Isaiah and Leah (SLAUGHTER) JONES.  In 1827 his father came out from Ohio to view the country, and was so impressed with its natural advantages that he resolved to emigrate, which he did the next year.  He leased a farm from David Bookwater in Shawnee township, and lived there a few years; after this he moved to Richland township and entered a tract of 160 acres, one half lying in this and the other in Shawnee township.  He also entered eighty acres of woodland in Van Buren.  Mr. JONES' mother died May 26, 1861, aged sixty-five years, and his father January 25, 1877, aged eighty-four."  --Beckwith, History of Fountain Co. (1881), pp.219, 227, 255-56.

• Today, there is a stream and a church in Clark Co., Ohio, known as Sinking Creek, but there is no place name in Ohio known as Coal Creek. However, there is a populated place in Fountain Co., Indiana, known as Coal Creek. (USGS website.)

1830 Fountain Co., IN, census, pp.151A-B, no Twp listed: line 9, ISAIAH JONES, 1 M & 1 F 30-40 (b. 1790-1799; Isaiah 1796, Leah 1797); 3 M & 1 F 5-10 (b. 1820-1824; Griffin ca.1820, 2 unknown males, Serrepta 1824); 3 M under 5 (b. 1825-1830; Reason ca.1826, Josiah 1828, Ambrose ca.1828); 9 total. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/fountain/census/1830/0151a.jpg

1840 Fountain Co., IN, census, pp.217A-B, Shawnee Twp.: line 7, ISAIH JONES, 1 M 60-70 (b. 1770-1779); 1 M & 1 F 40-50 (b. 1790-1799); 3 M & 1 F 15-20 (b. 1820-1824); 3 M 10-15 (b. 1825-1829); 1 M 5-10 (b. 1830-1834); 1 M & 2 F under 5 (b. 1835-1840); 14 total; 7 engaged in agriculture. (unknown male; Isaiah 1796, Leah 1797; Griffin ca. 1820, Serrepta 1824, 2 unknown males; Reason ca. 1826, Josiah 1828, Ambrose ca. 1828; Joel 1830 or Isaiah Jr. 1833; Isaac ca. 1836, Julia ca. 1838, Leah ca. 1842; Squire b. ca. 1843) http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/fountain/census/1840/0217A.jpg The 1840 census may represent Isaiah and Leah's entire family; they had 11 known children, 8 boys and 3 girls, the same number as listed here, although the ages for 3 of them don't agree with other records.

1850 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.102A, Richland Twp., August 9, 1850, John M. Hall: 211/213 ISAIAH JONES Sr., 53 M, farmer, $3000 real, OH; Leah, 53 F, NY (cannot read/write); Griffin, 29 M, carpenter, OH; Josiah, 24 M, laborer, OH; Ambrose, 22 M, laborer, OH; Joel, 18 M, laborer, IN; Isaiah Jr., 16 M, laborer, IN; Isaac, 14 M, IN; Squire C., 7 M, IN; Sereptor [sic], 25 F, OH; Julia A., 12 F, IN; Angeline, 4 F, IN. Ambrose, Joel, Isaiah, Isaac, Squire, Julia, Angeline attend school.

1860 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.801, Richland Twp., P.O. Newtown, July 10, 1860, Stephen Voorhees: 574/484 Isaiah JONES, 64 M, farmer, $6000 real, $1150 personal, OH; Leah, 64 F, NY; Serrepta, 31 F, OH; Isaac, 23 M, IN; Angeline, 18 F, IN; Squire C., 17 M, IN; Matilda, 13 F, IN [who is she?]; Caroline, 11 F, IA [son Reason's dau.].

1863 May 30, Isaiah JONES md. Mary SMITH, Montgomery Co., IN, Book 6, p.77

1863 Dec. 13, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "I havent received a letter from uncle Isaiahs family for a year. I don't know what is the matter / I suppose yu have heard of uncle Isaiahs marriage / I cannot tell you who he married. Well I hope he is happy but I don't think he needed a wife very bad. But I suppose he thought he did"

1864 June 13, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "We havent heard from uncle Isaiahs family directly in a long time / I get a letter every once in a while from Griffin and he always tells when he hears from them / I don't care about them writing if they write such secesh letters always as (?)somae I have read."

1864 Aug. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Uncle Reasen, Aunt Sarah, and I would like to have attended the association at Uncle Isiahs but we had but one horse so we had to give it up as a bad job and stay at home. If you come to the association just come on through to Ohio."

1864 Aug. 12. Zillman Jones wrote his brother Tighlman: "Father goes to uncle Isiah to the association."

1864 Sept. 19. JOEL L. JONES (Isaiah's brother) wrote his son TIGHLMAN: "I have just came home from attica. found all well & all Copperheads(*) of the worst Sort, not one But all. Joel he dos not say much. he has a fine Woman & smart. uncle Isah['s] Wife is quite good looking But not much for work yet. they get along well. her & the girls quarrels. Anjaline and griff has gon to Ohio. griff was married to ___ & she left him & he has a Devorse & has gon to Ohio to get another." (*)Copperheads were Northern Peace Democrats who criticized President Lincoln's administration during the Civil War. Loyal Unionists claimed the Copperheads were pro-Southern because they opposed Lincoln's attempts to free the slaves in the South, favoring, among other things, a compromise with the Confederate States to end the war. The movement reached its peak early in 1863, but Union military victories and Republican election victories in 1864 helped to end the Copperhead movement. --World Book Encyclopedia

1866 Dec. 16, Sunday Morning. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "We are all disappointed uncle / we expected to see you this winter / I wish you had come here last fall instead of going to uncle Isaiahs, / If I could see you and uncle Josey this winter I would be so glad but Ma and Pa think they cannot spare their baby to go so far from home."

1870 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.135B-136A, Richland Twp., Newtown P.O., August 29, 1870, Daniel W. Starns: 243/239 Isaiah JONES, 76 M W, farmer, $8000 real, $1000 personal, OH; Mary, 62 F W, keeping house, OH; Angeline, 28 F W, at home, IN; Squire C., 27 M W, farmer, $400 personal, IN; William MAJORS, 26 M W, farm laborer, $150 personal, MO; Mary SMITH, 9 F W, IN; George TANNER, 9 M W, IN; Carrie JONES, 1 F W, IN. Mary SMITH and George TANNER attend school.

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Jane Love: "It has been sometime since we heard from Uncle Isaiahs family."

1876 Sept. 17, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., IL. Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff wrote her brother Joel: "I had a letter from brother Isaih not long ago / he was getting verry helplass"

1877 Jan. 25, Isaiah d. at age 84y [80?] 5m 27d; Leah d. at age 61y 7m; they are buried in Old Baptist Cemetery, Richland Twp., Fountain Co., IN.

1878 Oct. 4, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Never hear at all from uncle Isiahs family"

1880 March 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Jane Love, Lillice Jones, and Zillman Jones: "Have not heard from uncle Isaiahs family since Griffin was here in September." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer

1932 DAR transcription, Old Baptist Cemetery, courtesy Diana Lewis, Dec. 1999:

 JONES, Leah, wf. of Isaiah ~ May 26, 1861 ~ 61y 7m   [b. Oct. 26, 1799]
 JONES, Isarah [sic] ~ Jan. 25, 1877 ~ 84y 5m 27d   [b. July 29, 1792]
 JONES, Serefta ~ Nov. 28, 1824 - Jan. 29, 1869
 JONES, Joel ~ Dec. 2, 1865 ~ 35y 6m 23d   [b. May 9, 1830]

With Isaiah and Leah JONES in 1860 was a Matilda JONES, age 13: Old Baptist Cemetery, Richland Twp., Fountain Co., IN: JONES, Matilda Jane ~ Apr. 12, 1846 - Dec. 23, 1863 [age 17, and probably the Matilda with Isaiah and Leah in 1860, but who was she? -- it would be a stretch to consider her as their child]. Yet another Matilda JONES: 1866 Nov. 25, Matilda JONES md. John W. OSBORN, Fountain Co., IN (Book 5, p.501).

1. ↑ LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index)
   Film 2034689.

   Isaiah JONES b. 1796, Hamilton Co., OH, son of Joseph JONES and Mary COVALT; Batch 6020645, Film 1621557, sheet 48, Isaiah JONES b. 1793, Ohio, son of Joseph JONES and Mary COVALT

2. ↑ correspondence, 19th century
   letter from Mary M. Jones Vorhis, Davis Co., IA, dated Jan. 29, 1891.

   "Isaih Jones [born] July 28 [year unknown]." [his gravestone suggests he was b. July 29]

3. ↑ H.W. Beckwith. History of Fountain County. (Chicago: H.H. Hill and N. Iddings, 1881)
   219, 227, 255-56.
4. ↑ Mrs. Glenn W. Harrison and Lydia Melinda Earl, D.A.R. Fountain County, Indiana, Cemetery Transcriptions. (Old Baptist Cemetery, Richland Twp., copied in 1932; original typescript in the Covington, IN, library).

   JONES, Isarah [sic] ~ Jan. 25, 1877 ~ 84y 5m 27d [calculates to a dob of July 29, 1792, but as the 2nd child, he was age 80, not age 84, and b. in 1796]