Person:Ella Jones (9)

1878 Oct. 4, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens family are well / Warnine [Warren] has been running a steam threshing machine all fall / just completed their work tuesday. Ella Beeler and family are well"

1878 Dec. 8, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Zillman Jones: "Aunt Phebe* is with us / came the first day of November / is going to remain all winter. / She was at Allens and Will Beelers / they are well."

• Phebe Palmer Jones, third wife of Evan W. Jones, John Allen's uncle.

1880 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.502D, Sycamore Twp., June 1, 1880, Charles White: 72/77, WM. C. BEELER, W M 31, head, farmer, OH OH OH; Ella C., W F 28, wife, keeping house, OH OH OH; Mabel, W F 5, dau, OH OH OH; Herbert, W M 4/12, Jan., son, OH OH OH.

1886 Aug. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens family are all well and so is Ella Beeler and her little family / I saw all of them last week."

1889 Jan. 9, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella Beeler yesterday / they are well."

1889 April 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens family were all to see me during my sickness and Ella Beeler was up last wednesday / she has poor health / her lungs are so weak / she is doctoring all the time"

1890 Aug. 7, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens boys and Will Beeler went through here with their threshing machine yesterday, / They are well and get plenty to do."

1891 Jan. 28, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allen Jones family are well, so is Ella Beeler."

1892 March 21, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Ella Beeler lost her husband with La Grippe. I was not able to go to the funeral." 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

[J. A. JONES] was married, December 1, 1850, to Miss MARY A., daughter of ADAM GROVER, a resident of Hamilton county, and a native of Pennsylvania. They became the parents of five children, four of whom are living: ELLA BEELER, widow, residing with her brother near Hazelwood; WARREN L.; EMERY and EMMET, who run a sawmill near Hazelwood. --excerpt from History of Cincinnati and Hamilton county, Ohio; Their Past And Present . . . (Cincinnati, OH: S.B. Nelson & Co., 1894), 1029; transcription courtesy Linda Boorom <lboorom@@fuse.net>, e-mail, March 11, 2004

descendant, Sally Davis <spokesong@@verizon.net>, Sally's gr-gr-grandmother ELLA CELESTE JONES; see Covalt Message Board post (Ancestry.com), July 8, 2002 <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.covalt/36>