Person:John Jones (266)

1850 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.380, Sycamore Twp.: JOHN A. JONES, 26, mason, OH; with his father, 78/80, JONATHAN JONES, 51, farmer, $2000 real, OH; Mary, 16, OH; Nancy, 13, OH; James W. JONES, 22, mason, OH.

1860 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.215A, Sycamore Twp., Montgomery P.O., June 5, 1860, H. McKown: 135/135, JOHN A. JONES, 34 M, plaster, $6000 real, $400 personal, OH; Mary A., 28 F, OH; Helon C., 12 F, OH; Warron C., 8 M, OH. Helen, Warren attend school.

no date [ca. April 1866], At Home, Sunday Evening. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "We were up to Allens last Sunday and found them well."

1866 Dec. 16, Sunday Morning. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Uncle Johnathan is not at Allens / never has been since he first went to Illinois and they scarce ever write so we dont know anything about him."

1870 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.719A, Sycamore Twp., P.O. Montgomery, June 2, 1870, James I. Ross: 25/26, JOHN A. JONES, 46 M W, plasterer, $12,000 real, $1320 personal, OH; Mary A., 37 F W, keeps house, OH; Ella C., 18 F W, at school, OH; Warren L., 14 M W, at school, OH; Emery, 6 M W, at school, OH; Emmett, 6 M W, at school, OH. Ella, Warren, Emery, Emmett attend school.

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens family are well"

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 March 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Jane Love, Lillice Jones, and Zillman Jones: "Allens family are well / I saw all of them at the Grangers Entertainment the eve of the 21st of February."

1880 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.501A, Sycamore Twp., June 1, 1880, Charles White: 43/47, J.A. JONES, W M 56, head, farmer, OH OH OH; Mary A., W F 47, wife, keeping house, OH PA PA; Warren L., W M 24, son, single, farm labor, OH OH OH; Emery, W M 16, son, at school, OH OH OH; Emmett, W M 16, son, at school, 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 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."

1891 June 12, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I heard from Allens yesterday / they were well and then Mabel [Beeler] and one of her young lady friends were up and stayed all night with me"

1892 July 1, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Allens family were all well the last I heard from them / I think perhaps some of them may come up the evening of the 4th as the firemen have a festival in the school yard only two doors from me."

1892 Nov. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I havent heard from Allens for some time / they were well when I last heard"

1893 Feb. 20, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not seen any of Allens family this winter / it has been so very disagreable but they were all well / last week I heard from them" 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, retired farmer, was born in Sycamore township June 20, 1823, son of JONATHAN JONES, also a native of Sycamore township, who was born in 1792, and died in 1880. His mother, NANCY (COCHRAN) JONES was born in Sycamore township, and died about 1835. They were highly respected farmers, residing near the home of our subject. Their family consisted of nine children, four of who are living: LEVI, a blacksmith in Coal Creek, Ind.: MARY E. wife of BENJAMIN FERRIS; NANCY wife of JOSEPH THOMPSON, of Champaign county, Ill, and J. A. Our subject's maternal grandfather, who was of Irish origin, settled in Hamilton county early in the eighteenth century, and lived to be ninety-nine years and nine months of age. His paternal grandfather was of Welsh descent, and also migrated to this county at an early day. His grandmother is said to have been the first white female child born near the fort in what was formerly known as Turkey Bottom.

 The subject of our sketch was reared in Sycamore township, and received his education in the district schools of same.  He then learned the plasterer's trade and followed it for forty-seven years, after which he turned his attention to farming, in which he has since been engaged.  He has been school director for a number of years.  Mr. JONES is a member of the Masonic Lodge and the I.O.O.F., and politically he is a Democrat.  He 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.  --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>; see Covalt Message Board post (Ancestry.com), July 8, 2002 <http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.covalt/36> Sally's family tradition has that Joseph Jones was a soldier at the fort [Fort Washington on the Ohio River].