... Tingnal Jones married Martha Anderson, the daughter of Major Thomas Anderson, who removed from Charles City county, Va., to Mecklenburg county, prior to the Revolutionary war. Major Anderson was an intimate friend of Col. William Byrd (the distinguished man of letters and secretary of the colony of Virginia), and was attracted to Mecklenburg by the accounts given of it by his friend Col. Byrd, who, as commissioner, in running the line dividing Virginia and North Carolina, fell in love with that country and possessed himself of a princely domain in it, giving it the name of Eden. The second wife of Major Anderson, great-grandmother of James Alfred Jones, was Miss Clark; her mother's maiden name, Henrietta Maria Hardiman. ...
