Person:Joel Jones (7)

1837 April 9, JOEL L. JOHNS md. JEMIMA M. CLARK, Warren Co., OH. Entry in the family Bible: Joel L. Jones was married to Jamima M. Clark April the 9, 1837 in Warren Co.OH by the Rev. A. Philips.

1840 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.221A-B, Shawnee Twp., line 23, JOEL JONES, 00011 / 00001 1 M & 1 F 20-30 (b. ca. 1810-1820; Joel 1805; Jemima 1818); 1 M 15-20 (b. ca. 1820-1825; Joel's nephew, Levi G. JONES 1821); 3 total.

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

  JONES, Jemima M., wf. of Joel L. ~ May 17, 1841 ~ 22y 8m 8d   [b. Sept. 9, 1818]

Entry in the family Bible: Jemima M. Jones Departed this life May the 17, 1841 aged twenty years and 8 months 8 days.

1842 Dec. 15, Joel C.[sic] JONES md. Ruth H. ROBERTS, Clark Co., IL (south of, and just across the state line from Fountain Co., IN) Entry in the family Bible: Joel L. Jones was married to Ruth H. Roberts Dec. the 15, 1842 in Clarke Co., ILL. by the Rev. L. Henway [sic]

"Rob Roy Baptist church was organized in the Rob Roy school-house in the winter of 1844 . . , with thirteen members [including] Jonathan DOVE* and Mary his wife, Joel JONES and Ruth his wife. . . . It maintained an existence of about four years, when, having suffered heavy losses from deaths and removals, the remnant went to the Baptist church at Attica." --Beckwith, History of Fountain Co. (1881), p.352.

• Jonathan was probably the son of John DOVE and Lucy COVALT, sister of Mary COVALT JONES.

1846 April 13. Contract between Isaac Perisho of Edgar Co., IL, and JOEL L. JONES of Fountain Co., IN, for E2 NW4 (91.82 acres) and E2 NE4 (87.96 acres), Section 6, Twp. 8N, Range 14W; and E2 NE4 (87.02 acres) and NE4 SE4 (40 acres), Section 6, Twp. 8N, Range 11E, Jasper Co., IL (Isaac patented these 4 parcels of land, March 10, 1843), for which JOEL gave Isaac five notes: 1) $300 to be discharged in wagons, December 25, 1846; 2) $121 due December 25, 1847; 3) 4) and 5) $106 each, December 25, 1848, 1849, and 1850; after which a Warranty Deed will be executed by Isaac Perisho & Rosanah his wife to JOEL L. JONES. --photocopy of original document courtesy John Harper, February 2001 (JOEL deeded the 3rd and 4th parcels to his children in 1863)

1850 Fountain Co., IN, census, p.89B, Shawnee Twp., July 29, 1850, John M. Hall: 46/46 JOEL L. JONES, 46 M, blacksmith, $4000 real, OH; Ruth H., 25 F, IN; Tilman A.H., 6 M, IN; Cighlman, 4 M, IN; Levi G. (Joel's nephew), 28 M, blacksmith, $700 real, IN. Tilman attends school.

1851 January 25. E.W. JONES (JOEL's brother) witnessed the will of JOEL's father-in-law, John ROBERTS, in Jasper Co., IL.

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

  JONES, Albert H., son of Joel & Ruth ~ May 27, 1850 ~ 2y 2m 21d   [b. March 6, 1848]
  JONES, Albert H., son of J.L. & Ruth H. ~ Oct. 17, 1854 ~ 3y 8m   [b. Feb. 17, 1851]

1855 August 14. JOEL L. JONES of Fountain Co., IN, sold to Garret Clawson & Delila his wife, certain parcels of land known and designated in the Plat of the Enlargement of the Town of Rob Roy, Ind., Lots No. 56, 55, 83, 84, 85, 116, 117, 118, 119, and 120. --photocopy of original document courtesy John Harper, February 2001 (Garret CLAWSON and Joel were COVALT cousins - 1st cousins once removed)

1857, Joel's 2nd wife, Ruth, died: at the time of his enlistment in Dec. 1861, TIGHLMAN "lived with his father, younger brother, and little sister ever since his mother had died two years before." --Glenn W. Sunderland, Five Days to Glory (South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1970), 12.

1860 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.696, Grandville Twp., P.O. Ste Marie, [date blank], Joseph Schifferstein: 980/901, JOEL L. JONES, 55 M, blacksmith, $7800 real, $800 personal, OH; Tillman H., 17 M, IN; Zilman, 14 M, IN; Lillas, 8 F, IN. Tillman, Zilman, Lillas attend school. [SW of Clark Co. where Joel md. Ruth in 1842; Clark, Jasper, and Cumberland counties more or less corner each other.]

1861 April 18, Joel L. JONES md. Anjaline JOHNSON, Clark Co., IL, Book E, p.54. (It's not known what happened to this marriage; whatever the reason, it was short-lived.) Entry in the family Bible: Joel L. Jones was married to Angaline Johnston April 18, 1861.

1862 March 30. Tighlman Jones wrote his father Joel L. Jones: "I got a letter from Ada [Wyckoff in Ohio] last night. . . . they want you to sell off your chattel property and to come and live with them. they offer you a home and a place to rest. you know my advice about the matter. when you write again, tell me what you are going to do."

1863 May 4, Cedar Villa, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Tighlman Jones: "I received a letter from cousin Jane Love last week / they have moved to Illinois. Her address is Ashkum Illinois. I know she is a gear [dear] good girl / I wish little Lillias was here awhile untill we could learn her to sew and knit and do a great many things that your Pa cant learn her. Poor man / what a charge he has but he bears it well. I was in hopes he would move in here and rent a house and shop and I would have kept house for him. Cousin Jane says she will keep house for him this summer if Rebeccas health gets better. I hope it will for your Pa needs a housekeeper badly."

1863 July 1. Warranty Deed by JOEL L. JONES to "THILMAN H. JONES, ZILLMAN JONES & LILLICE J. JONES," for E2 NE4 (87.04 acres), and SE4 NE4 (40 acres; should read NE4 SE4), Section 6, Twp. 8N, Range 11E, Jasper Co., IL. (An Affidavit from Zillman JONES recorded in Book 9, p.448, states, among other things, that Joel L. JONES was a widower on July 1, 1863, when he executed this deed to his children.) --Abstract of Title, October 20, 1902; photocopy of original document courtesy John Harper, February 2001

1864 April 6. I am somewhat puzzled as to how you are to manage affairs this summer with no housekeeper. if you intend to raise a crop and resume the old order you will be put to the straight. I will not presume to dictate any plan for you but will wait until you write and give me some information. It will be very lonesome and discirnading [sic]. I would hat[e] to hear of you breaking up housekeeping. I hope for the best in your situation. --excerpt from letter written by TIGHLMAN JONES to brother ZILLMAN; from typed transcription of original courtesy John Harper, February 2001; punctuation added

1864 June 13, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Aunt Sarah thanks you very much for your minature but she don't think it looks much like you / neither do I. I have a photo of Tighlmans / it looks like him but it is very dark."

1864 July 3. "We are busy in harvest and wages is three dollars per day. I get Ceasar off of ROBERTS to cut on the shears [shares?] for the two-fifths in stock. The weather is dry and warm but health good. The people is going to the 4th tomorrow at the Union schoolhouse. I would fain I would come and take your place if that would release you and serve your time. . . . Corn looks well and what wheat there is as good as ever grew. Pricing high. Corn, 1 dollar; wheat, 1.50; 'backer, 18 [tobacco]; lard, 16; chickens, 4 dollars per dozen; shirting, 65 yard, and all in proportion." --letter written by JOEL JONES to his son, TIGHLMAN, in the 59th IL Infantry Regiment, somewhere in the South; in Glenn W. Sunderland, Five Days to Glory (South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1970), 153.

1864 July 3. There is goodly amount of work on the farm to do and Father is engaged in the shop a great part of the time thereby throwing a considerable amount of the labor on my shoulders. All this and the addition of the housewife labor keeps me pretty well engaged. nevertheless taking all things into consideration we get along comparatively well. Though laboring at great disadvantages yet we manage to live very comfortably, and not go in debt. We have twenty five acres of corn in which looks flattering at present although it has been very dry. this corn has growed right ahead and if the fall months are seasonable and Jack Frost will delay his coming there will be abundant crops. Corn as a general things is about knee high and the wheat crop in this region is about a half crop. up north oats, flax and other spring grains are general good. Laborers are scarce here, 3 dol. a day are giving for harvest hands. --excerpt from letter written by ZILLMAN JONES to his brother, TIGHLMAN; from typed transcription of original courtesy John Harper, February 2001; punctuation added; also in Five Days to Glory, 153-54.

1864 August 12. Zillman Jones wrote his brother Tighlman: "Father goes to uncle ISIAH to the association. we are going to have a housekeeper."

1865 May, at home, Sunday morning. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "uncle Reason says now that he will go with me about the middle of August. So that you will have two instead of one for company."

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 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.273A, Grandville Twp., P.O. Yale, July 11, 1870, Wm. L. Bridges: 58/51, JOEL L. JONES, 65 M W, farmer, $7500 real, $600 personal, OH; Zilman, 24 M W, IN; Lillice, 16 F W, keeping house, IN; Jane LOVE, 28 F W, house servant, Canada. Lillice attends school.

1873 Feb. 16, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff wrote her brother Joel L. Jones: "I think you have worked hard enough / you had better sel of your stock and go in to some town an take it alittle easier then plowing / you are to old to work so hard / you will be seventy next august / you had better take it easy and in joy your self / your days wont be many / we are all old and will soon go the the way of the rest of our friends"

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Have you moved in your new house yet / In imagination I see all of you flying around about your work or of an evening Uncle and Zillman reading and you and Lilly serving [sewing] or passing your time also in reading. I do enjoy reading of an evening so much."

1877 Sept. 17, Warranty Deed by JOEL L. JONES to ZILLMAN JONES and LILLICE J. JONES, for undivided interest in E2 NE4 and NE4 SE4 [note these quarters are switched], Section 6, Twp. 8N, Range 11E, Jasper Co., IL. --Abstract of Title, Oct. 20, 1902; photocopy of original document courtesy John Harper, Feb. 2001

1877 Dec. 10, Troy, Iowa. Martha Melvina Vorhis wrote her cousin Jane Love: "mother got your kind letter and was sory unkels deth / we all must go some day / I dont feel like I wod stand it meny yeares"

1877 Dec. 16, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "was so sorry to hear of uncles death but that is a debt that we all owe / the last time that he was ever at our house he was a strong hearty man and so was pa and all of the rest the rest that is gone . . . Jane do you think of staying with uncle Joels children or not"

1878 June 27, New York City, 200 Canal St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I received your letter some time ago containing the sad news of our uncle's and your sisters death." 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

1880 Jasper Co., IL, census, p.275D, Granvill [sic] Twp., June 5, 1880, W.W. Kibler: 80/83, Gilman JONES, W M 34, farming, IN OH OH; Lillice, W F 26, sister, keeping house, IN OH OH; Jane LOVE, W F 37, cousin, at home, IN Canada IN.

My grandmother talked about Joel as a short-redheaded Irishman. --Brenda Boyer <L1br1a@@aol.com>, e-mail, October 19, 2000.

Joel is buried in the Harper Family Cemetery, Grandville Twp., Jasper Co., IL.

HARPER CEMETERY - (Grandville Twp.). IN BACK OF HARPER BARN - east side Route 49 - approx. 1/4 mile north of road which had a small town named Advance - almost direct line from DeBord Cemetery on west side of Route 49 (Section 6, Twp. [8]N, Range 11E [see July 1, 1863, deed above], Family Cemetery, north of Yale, IL, about 3 miles, west of Guy Harper home in field; no access road.) http://www.iltrails.org/Jasper/cemeteries.html Harper, Janier B. - b. 1851; d. 1896 (src #28- June Kessinger djk@@acronet.net) Harper, Lillie (nee Jones) - b. 1853; d. 1929 (src #28) Jones, Joel L. - b. 1804; d. 1877 (src #28... wife Ruth Roberts) (current property owner confirms location) Jones, Ruth (nee Roberts) - b. 1819 ?; d. 1957 (1857?) (src #28) Wife of Joel L. Jones. Love, Jane C. - b. 1842; d. 1893 (current property owner confirms location) (src #28)

DEBORD (aka Deboard, Debeard) CEMETERY (Grandville Twp. near Advance) Jones, Tighlman A. Howard - Corp. Co. F, 59 ILL; b. 1843 - d. 25 Dec. 1864 (src #10- "Record of Burial Places of Soldiers & Sailors" for Jasper County)

Photograph of Joel L. Jones at http://members.aol.com/wilenesmth/jonesphotos.html

1. ↑ LDS IGI (International Genealogical Index)
   Batch 6020645, Film 1621557, sheet 48.

   Joel JONES b. 1804, Hamilton Co., OH, son of Joseph JONES and Mary COVALT

2. ↑ correspondence, 19th century.

   When Mary M. Jones Vorhis of Davis Co., IA, wrote a letter dated Jan. 29, 1891, stating the dates of birth of all her siblings, Joel's was the only one she didn't know

3. ↑ Henry A. and Kate B. Ford. History of Hamilton County, Ohio. (Cleveland: L.A. Williams, 1881; reprint, Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1974)
   400.

   Joel d. before 1881

4. ↑ Jasper Co., IL, cemetery transcriptions (http:/www.iltrails.org/Jasper/cemeteries.html)
   Harper [Family] Cemetery, Grandville Twp.

   JONES, JOEL L. - b. 1804; d. 1877 (src #28- June Kessinger djk@@acronet.net... wife RUTH ROBERTS) (current property owner confirms location)

5. ↑ HARPER Family Cemetery, Jasper Co., IL
   from a survey completed May 30, 1969, by Warren Breedlove; 7 markers found.

   Row 3 includes JOEL L. JONES ~ 1804 - 1877