Person:Robert Jones (71)

ROBERT A. JONES md. Sarah E. Carr, Feb. 18, 1857, Vermilion Co., IL, Book A, p.246

1860 Champaign Co., IL, census, p.435, Twp. 19N Range 9E, P.O. Urbana City, July 24, 1860, E.T. McCain: 1095/1065, ROBERT A. JONES, 29 M W, farmer, $800 real, $3660 personal, OH; Sarah E., 19 F W, OH; Wilmer, 2 M W, IL; Laura, 4/12 F W, IL; John TIMPSON, 14 M W, NY; Garrett HOWARD, 23 M W, farm labor, PA; Thomas OBRINE, 31 M W, farm labor, Ireland.

1870 Champaign Co., IL, census, p.361, St. Joseph Twp., P.O. Urbana, July 18, 1870, John L. Smith: 119/117, ROBERT A. JONES, 39 M W, occupation not stated, $3900 real, $1230 personal, OH; Sarah E., 28 F W, OH; Wilmer, 12 M W, IL; Laura, 10 F W, IL; Lawrence, 8 M W, IL; Effie, 6 F W, IL; Grace, 4 F W, IL; William MYRES, 30 M W, farm labor, OH. Wilmer, Laura, Lawrence, Effie attend school.

Robert appears to have been known as "Brown" to his family.

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Polly [widow of Uncle Joseph] 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 marrying [Uncle Joseph's daughter Sarah?]. They sold the farm for $4000. Sale bill $1000. broke up housekeeping last fall / spent the winter in Springfield [Sangamon Co., IL] / are now at Browns."

• Joseph R. Jones, son of Joseph and Mary Jones, moved to Coffeyville, Montgomery Co., KS, in 1873.

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Mr and Mrs Ingalls of Urbana [Champaign Co.] Illinois visited us this fall and said they had seen Brown just the day before they started / he was well and they told us he was doing well, / his daughter Laura is going to school in Urbana."

1878 Oct. 4, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "last spring I received two letters from Brown but the last one I was not able to answer so that I have not heard from him since / now that I can see to write I intend writing to him soon"

1880 Champaign Co., IL, census, p.24A, Champaign, June 4, 1880, G.W. Moore: 140 University Ave., 47/51, ROBT. A. JONES, W M 49, head, stock buyer, OH [IN written over] OH OH; Sarah E., W F 29, wife, keeping house, OH NC VA; Wilmer C., W M 22, son, IL, clerk, has measles, IL IN OH; Lawrence, W M 18, son, IL IN OH; Effie A., W F 15, dau, IL IN OH; Grace M., W F 13, dau, IL IN OH; Bertha L., W F 6, dau, IL IN OH; Irwin C. SABIN, W M 21, blank, bookkeeper, IL NY Canada; Laura L., W F 19, wife, boarder, IL OH OH; Guy, W M 2/12, April, son, IL IL IL.

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. . . . 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"

• Mary Jones Ferris and Nancy A. Jones Thompson, daughters of Jonathan C. Jones; Nancy lived in Champaign Co., IL; Griffin Jones, son of Isaiah Jones.

1892 March 21, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "There was a lady from Champaign [Champaign Co., IL] visited me and she said Browns family had moved to Chicago and he had gone to spend the winter with Joe [his brother in Coffeyville, KS], the climate being pleasant agreed with his health better than Chicago." 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

1900 Cook Co., IL, census, pp.106A-B, Chicago, Ward 3, June 7, 1900, Dudley W. Lester: [last 3 lines bottom of p.106A almost solid black and nearly impossible to read] ROBERT A. JONES, head, W M, April 1830, 70, md. 43 yrs., OH OH OH, rents home; Sarah A., wife, W F, Sept. 1841, 58, mother of 7 children, 5 living, IL NC VA; ______, son [probably Wilmer], W M, Mar.? 18__, 42 or 52, single, IL OH OH, clerk, P.O.; Bertha JOHNSON, dau, W F, Oct. 1873, 26, mother of 2 children, 2 living, IL OH OH, clerk, dry goods; Charles F., son-in-law, W M, May 1870, 30, md. 9 yrs., MI MI MI, traveling salesman; Russell T., gr-son, W M, May 1892, 8, IL MI IL, at school; Charles A., gr-son, W M, Feb. 1895, 5, IL MI IL.

1900 Champaign Co., IL, census, pp.291B-292A, Urbana Twp., Urbana City, June 4, 1900, William G. Spurgin: ROBERT A. JONES, fath-in-law, W M, April 1831, 69, md. 43 yrs., OH OH OH, no occupation; with 1212 Clark, 77/78, ARTHUR SNYDER, head, W M, June 1859, 40, md. 11 yrs., IL NY NY, car designer; Grace, wife, W F, June 1868, 32, mother of 3 children, 3 living, IL OH OH; Frank W., son, W M, Dec. 1891, 8, NE IL IL, at school; Maud, dau, W F, Sept. 1893, 6, NE IL IL, at school; Ralph, son, W M, Dec. 1895, 4, IL IL IL.

1908 Nov. 4, Robert A. Jones, age 77 yrs., d. Chicago, Cook Co., IL, certificate #00008204.

1912 Jan. 31, Sarah E. Jones, age 70 yrs., d. Chicago, Cook Co., IL, certificate #00017768. Illinois Statewide Death Index, Pre-1916, http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/GenealogyMWeb/deathsrch.html