Person:Jonathan Jones (20)

1820 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.144A, Sycamore Twp., line 38, MARY JONES, 120200 / 22210 / 02 JONATHAN and his new wife appear to be with his mother and family

1830 Hamilton Co., OH, census, pp.198A-B, Symmes Twp., line 11, JONATHAN JONES, 120001 / 201001 1 M & 1 F 30-40 (b. 1790-1800; Jonathan, Nancy); 1 F 10-15 (b. 1815-1820, identity unknown); 2 M 5-10 (b. 1820-1825; Levi, John); 1 M & 2 F under 5 (b. 1825-1830; James, girls identities unknown); 8 total. Brother JOSEPH on line 6.

1840 Hamilton Co., OH, census index, JONATHAN JONES, p.427, Sycamore Twp.

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

1860 Champaign Co., IL, census, p.529, P.O. Rantoul, August 8, 1860, E.T.M. Jones: JONATHAN JONES, 63 M, farmer, OH; with 1798/1760, JONATHAN THOMPSON, 26 M, farm laborer, $800 real, $300 personal, OH; Nancy, 23 F, OH; Ellen, 1 F, OH.

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 Champaign Co., IL, census, p.124B, Harwood Twp., P.O. Rantoul, July 27, 1870, John W. Hill: JONATHAN JONES, 73 M W, OH; with 9/9, J.C. THOMPSON, 36 M W, farming, OH, $1,000 real, $1,000 personal; Nancy, 32 F W, keeping house, OH; Ionay, 11 F W, OH, attends school; Sena M., 9 F W, IL, attends school; Hattie, 6 F W, IL, attends school; Carry, 6/12 F W, IL, Jan.; Martin THOMPSON, 26 M W, farmer, OH.

1876 Sept. 17, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., IL. Elizabeth Jones Wyckoff wrote her brother Joel: "Jonathan was in tollerable health but has lost the youse of one arm"

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Ma had a letter from Nancy Thompson / she said uncle Johnathans health was very good indeed."

1878 June 27, New York City, 200 Canal St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I have not heard from Ada for some time, / Her last letter informed me of the death of uncle Johnathan. It seems that our friends are being called home very fast" 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

"Levi G. JONES, farmer and blacksmith, Newtown, born in Hamilton county, Ohio, July 12, 1821, was the son of Jonathan and Nancy (CAUGHRON) JONES." --Beckwith, History of Fountain Co. (1881), p.267.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois (Chapman Brothers, 1887): Dec. 6, 1857, at the age of twenty-four [Jotham C. Thompson] was united in marriage with Miss NANCY A. JONES, the youngest child in a family of nine. The names of her parents were JONATHAN C. and NANCY (COCHRAN) JONES. Her father was of Welsch descent although born in Ohio, and her Mother who was of Irish descent, was also a native of the Buckeye State. Her father was the son of JOSEPH and MARY (COVALT) JONES, Natives of Wales. Her mother was the daughter of Ephraim Cochran, a native of Ireland. Mrs. Thompson on the Welsh side is a descendant of Lord Griffith* and only three generations removed. --transcription courtesy Michele Houchens, e-mail, March 10, 2004

• Griffith ap Conan [b. 1055, Dublin, Ireland; d. 1137, Gwynedd, Wales] and / or Griffith ap Rees; the elder Griffith died in 1137, 700 years before NANCY JONES THOMPSON was born.

Both Griffiths appear to have been distantly related, but were not father and son. See Griffith ap Conan and Grffith ap Rees, Chapter VIII in Owen M. Edwards, A Short History of Wales, http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/history/shortwales/chapter9.html Also see Wales, http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/wales.html Also see 1066-1137. The Norman Conquest. Norman barons v. Griffith ap Conan and Griffith ap Rees. http://www.top-referers.com/sitemap/file5169.htm Also see Griffith ap Conan Wales, http://nygaard.50g.com/files/3361.htm (and numerous other sites)

1897 December 6. When LEVI G. JONES, son of Jonathan and Nancy, died in Fountain Co., IN, his survivors were said to include two sisters and one brother.

LDS IGI (a different Jonathan JONES): 1835 Feb. 12, Jonathan JONES md. Rebecca WALLACE, Hamilton Co., OH.

descendant, Michele Roberts Houchens <mhouchens@@earthlink.net> or <mhouchens@@htls.lib.il.us>

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

   Jonothan JONES b. ca. 1795, Hamilton Co., OH, son of Joseph JONES and Mary COVALT [the 1850 census suggests Jonathan's dob as ca. 1799; the 1860 and 1870 censuses suggest ca. 1797; he was the 3rd child]

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

   "Jonnathan Jones [born] March 23 [year unknown]." The 1860 and 1870 censuses suggest Jonathan was b. ca. 1797; he was the 3rd child