Person:Joseph Jones (70)

The 1850, 1860, and 1870 censuses consistently state that Joseph was born in Indiana. Although the 1880 and 1910 censuses show he was b. in Ohio, his 1883 biography states he was b. in Hamilton Co., IN, the 3rd county east of Fountain Co. However, the 1840 Hamilton Co., IN, census index does not include a Joseph Jones.

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from Sarah Dolby in which she writes that Aunt Polly [widow of Joseph Jones] has sold their farm and are going to move to Kansas near Coffeeville.* Joseph [Aunt Polly's son] is there now / has bought an improved farm. There is some talk of Sallie [Aunt Polly's dau. Sarah?] marrying. They sold the farm for $4000. Sale bill $1000. broke up housekeeping last fall / spent the winter in Springfield / are now at Browns."

• Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., KS

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 Montgomery Co., KS, census, p.307A, Parker Twp., June 1, 1880, W.G. Coffer: 4/4, JOSEPH R. JONES, W M 37, head, farmer, OH OH OH; Emmy, W F 24, wife, keeping house, KY KY IN.

JOSEPH R. JONES, owner of Oakland Grain and Stock Farm., Coffeyville, P.O., was born in Hamilton County, Ind., October 6, 1839, and was reared and educated in Champaign County, Ill [next west of Vermilion Co.]. In 1873 he came here, and has been actively identified with farming industry here since. He married, in 1880, Miss Emma May Davis, who was born in Boone County, Ky., and reared and educated in Coffeyville. He and his wife are members of the Episcopal Church. Oakland Farm contains 243 acres of valuable land, is located one and a half miles west of Coffeyville, upon Sycamore Creek, is well stocked; he makes a specialty of rearing and breeding Durham cattle and Berkshire, Poland-China hogs; handsome dwelling and outbuildings are located upon it; has an orchard of well assorted variety of fruits. Montgomery County Biographical Sketches in William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas (Chicago: A.T. Andreas, 1883) <http://www.kancoll.org/books/cutler/montgomery/montgomery-co-p11.html#110009>

1900 census

1910 Montgomery Co., KS, census, p.135B, Ward 2, Coffeyville City, April 28, 1910, John Miller: 501 W. 8th, 562/608, JOSEPH R. JONES, head, M W 70, md. 29 yrs., OH OH KY, own income; Emma, wife, F W 55, mother of one child, one living, KY KY KY.

1920 Montgomery Co., KS, census, p.178B, Coffeyville City, Jan. 10-12, 1920, Mrs. Ida M. Jones: 501 W. 8th, 46/47, EMMA M. JONES, head, F W 64, widow, KY KY IN; 2 lodgers (a man & wife).

1930 Montgomery Co., KS, census, p.215A, Coffeyville City, April 7, 1930, Mrs. Ila F. Maxson: 501 8th St., EMMA M. JONES, head, owns home valued at $10,000, F W 75, widow, KY KY IN; 2 lodgers.