Person:Sarah Jones (175)

Sarah apparently never married.

1850 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.425A, Symmes Twp., August 1, 1850, N. Brownell: 73/74 Wm. C. WYKOFF, 38 M, merchant, OH; Sidney, 36 F, OH; Therese A., 12 F, OH; Lawrence V.C., 9 M, OH. Therese and Lawrence attend school. 73/75 Mary JONES, 78 F, $3500 real, NJ; Sarah, 40 F, OH; Reason, 38 M, farmer, OH; Elizabeth 34 F, OH; Marion [Reason and Sarah's nephew], 3 M, OH.

1860 Hamilton Co., OH, census, p.270A, Symms Twp., P.O. Montgomery, July 11, 1860, H. McKown: 956/952, R. JONES, 52 M, farmer, $3500 real, $400 personal, OH; Sarah, 62 F, OH; Marion, 13 M, OH.

1862 April 20. Sarah Jones wrote her brother Joel L. Jones: "Dear Brother / We have not forgotten you / we often think about you and wish we were nearer to you / how often I would visit you and your little family / Joel I think you had better sell off your property and come into this country / perhaps it would be better for you and your children / Tighlman wanted you to do so / come and see us / perhaps you will be better satified / the times are hard / we all work hard and that is about all we get in its [______] / soon let us hear from you / we are all well / hope you are the same / write soon / I must close / [signed] Sarah Jones"

1864 June 13, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Ma is spinning tow for stocking yarn and Aunt Sarah is patching as usual / We have some flax growing and it is all out in blossom / it is the first I ever saw / you can just come in to the flax pulling And we will give you enough thread to sew on one patch and yarn enough to knit one pair of socks at least. Come in and see any how if we dont. . . . Aunt Sarah thanks you very much for your minature but she don't think it looks much like you / neither do I."

1864 August 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff wrote her uncle Joel L. Jones: "Uncle Reasen, Aunt Sarah, and I would like to have attended the association at Uncle Isiahs but we had but one horse so we had to give it up as a bad job and stay at home. If you come to the association just come on through to Ohio." 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

Will of Sarah JONES filed March 13, 1871, Hamilton Co., OH, Box 25, Case 15193 16 mile Stand Ohio } March 5th 1870 To All whom it may concern The last will and Testament of SARAH JONES. 1st After my Funeral expenses are paid I give and bequeateth to my neice [sic] LUELLA JONES youngest child of E.W. JONES $50.00 Fifty Dollars, 2d To my neice [sic] MARTHA MELVINA VOORHEIS Daughter of MARY VORHIS $25.00 Twenty five Dollars. To my neice [sic] JEMIMA WATTS Daughter of NANCY WATTS., $25.00 Twenty five dollars to draw legal intrest from my Death untill the Farm is Sold. If eather of these heirs die Single their portion to be divided with the other two. The balance of My intrest in the Farm known as the MARY JONES Farm Lying and being in Symmes Township Section 34 [sic; 36?] Range 1 Hamilton County State of Ohio Bounded as follows Bounded on the South by Hellen W. HARPER on the North by John Vogel & Samuel Short on the East by The Section Line on the West by J. HARPER-- And all my Chattel property to be given to my Sister ELIZABETH H. WIKOFF With the understanding that if the Farm Sells for (100) One hundred Dollars or upwards per acre that She Shall pay each neice [sic] above named ten dollars more apiece. If it does not sell for ($100) one Hundred per acre Dollars this will is to remain unchanged. Given under my hand and seal this 5th day of March A D 1870 at 16 mile Stand Hamilton Co Ohio [signed] Sarah x Jones (Witnesses) { Seal } [signed] N. K. Snook [signed] R. L. JONES Written on a separate paper: I do hereby certify that I apoint WILLIAM C. WYKOFF my Executor to Settle all my estate [signed] Sarah x Jones (It's curious as to why SARAH picked just these three nieces from all the many nieces that she had?)

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

   SARAH ANN JONES b. 1810, Hamilton Co., OH, dau. of JOSEPH JONES and MARY COVALT

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

   "Sarah Jones. [born] October 23 [year unknown]." The 1860 census suggests she was b. ca. 1798; she was the 4th child

3. ↑ Union Cemetery records, Symmes Township, Hamilton Co., OH
   Section 2, Lot 53, Space 3.
4. ↑ Lois E. Hughes, comp. Wills Filed in Probate Court, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1791-1901, Volume 1, A-K. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1991).

   Lois Hughes' work is said to be very accurate