Person:Mary Jones (319)

BENJAMIN FERRIS, b. ca. 1829, Hamilton Co., OH, son of Solomon FERRIS and Mary STITES; md. MARY E. JONES (b. ca. 1833, Hamilton Co., OH), ca. 1854, Hamilton Co., OH; children not listed. --LDS Ancestral File AF95-101110 by Reed Rogers Hawkes, Payson, UT 84651

1860 Ford Co., IL, census, p.319, Patton Precinct, P.O. Paxton, July 3, 1860, 350/350, BENJAMIN FERRIS, 29 M, farmer, $3200 real, $445 personal, OH; Mary, 25 F, OH; Abannes, 0 M, IL; Allen, 8/12 M, IL.

1870 census

1880 Ford Co., IL, census, pp.367B-368C, Patton Twp. (outside Paxton), June 2, 1880, F.L. Cooper: 19/19, BENJAMIN FERRIS, W M 50, head, md., farmer, OH OH OH; Mary E.C., W F 48, wife, keeps house, OH OH OH; Albanus L., W M 22, son, single, farm laborer, IL OH OH; Skilman A.D., W M 17, son, at home, IL OH OH; Ella, W F 12, adopted dau, at home, IN IN IN.

1882 Jan. 2, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Nancy Thompson and her husband and Mary Ferris and her son Albanus visited us this fall. . . . Mary and Nancy told us that they heard you had moved off of the farm but could not tell where you had gone / they said they had written to you but recieved no answer. . . . We have not heard from Griffin for a year now. Mary Nancy nor Brown had not heard from him indeed knew nothing of any of uncle Isaiahs familly" 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. --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