3. Thomas JONES (William ) was born about 1732 in ,,North Carolina. He died in ,,Kentucky.
Thomas Jones was also an esteemed member of the Regular Baptist Church. He
became somewhat wealthy, raised a large family, and died at an old age.
[From the Jones Family History.]
Thomas married UNKNOWN about 1756 in ,,North Carolina. UNKNOWN was born about 1738 in ,,North Carolina.
They had the following children:
7 M i Joseph JONES was born about 1758 in ,,North Carolina.
Wife's name probably was Lucy.8 M ii Thomas JONES was born about 1760 in ,,North Carolina.
Wifes's name probably was Janice.9 M iii John JONES was born about 1762 in ,,North Carolina.
Wife's name probably was Kate.+ 10 M iv Francis JONES was born about 1764. + 11 F v Mary JONES was born about 1766/1770. + 12 F vi Nancy JONES was born about 1769. 13 F vii Elizabeth JONES was born about 1771 in ,,North Carolina. 14 M viii Benjamin JONES was born about 1773 in ,,North Carolina.
Wife's name may have been Thompson.
5. Mary JONES (William ) was born about 1736 in ,,North Carolina. She died about 1801 in ,Campbell,Kentucky.
Mary Jones married a man named McDonnell by whom she had one son. Her husband
died and she married a raw Irish Presbyterian named James Wilson. By the
second marriage there were four daughters: Elizabeth, Nancy, Mary, and Rebecca.
Nancy and her husband, Charles Reynolds, moved to Missouri. Mary married
William Wilson and their three sons, Wesley, David, and Thomas, were among the
early settlers of Rush County, Indiana; many of their descendants moved to
Boone and Grant Counties.
[From the Jones Family History.]
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Mary is older than her sister Jane.
They had the following children:
15 M i MCDONNELL.
Mary married (2) James WILSON. James was born in 1725 in ,,,Ireland. He died about 1801 in Sharpsburg,Bath,Kentucky. He was buried about 1801 in Sharpsburg,Bath,Kentucky.
They had the following children:
16 F ii Elizabeth WILSON was born about 1759 in ,,North Carolina. Elizabeth married Joseph HOLMAN. + 17 F iii Mary WILSON was born about 1761. 18 F iv Nancy WILSON was born about 1764 in ,,North Carolina. Nancy married Charles REYNOLDS. + 19 F v Rebecca WILSON was born about 1768. She died about 1822.
6. Jane JONES (William ) was born about 1738 in ,,North Carolina.
Jane Jones was a member of the Regular Baptist Church and lived to be 104 years
old. She married a Mr. Lee and had a son and a daughter. The son became the
celebrated Baptist minister, Elder James Lee, and the daughter married Bethuel
Riggs, who also became a Baptist minister of note. Mr. Lee died when the
children were young and Jane married Closs Thompson, a cross-blood of Scotch
and German. He had been christened (as sprinkling was then called) in the
Church of England and was raised in that church but soon after his marriage he
became a Regular Baptist. For many years he was a deacon in the Baptist church
and died at the age of 53 years. He and his family came to Kentucky with the
family of James and Mary Wilson in 1787. Most of the descendants of Elder
Wilson Thompson lived in Indiana.
[From the Jones Family History.]
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Mary was younger than her sister Jane and lived to age 104.
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Jane married (1) James LEE. James was born in 1734 in ,,Virginia.
They had the following children:
+ 20 M i James LEE II was born in 1760. He died in 1817. 21 F ii Nancy LEE was born about 1762 in ,,Virginia. Nancy married Bethuel RIGGS about 1778.
Jane married (2) Nicholas "Closs" THOMPSON Sr. on 17 Oct 1759 in ,Rowan,North Carolina. Nicholas was born about 1735 in ,,Pennsylvania. He died about 1800.
They had the following children:
+ 22 M iii Nicholas "Closs" THOMPSON Jr. was born about 1763. He died about 1818. + 23 M iv Lawrence THOMPSON was born about 1765. He died in 1831. + 24 M v Joseph THOMPSON was born about 1769. + 25 M vi Benjamin THOMPSON was born about 1769. He died on 13 Dec 1853. + 26 F vii Elizabeth THOMPSON was born about 1773. + 27 M viii Samuel THOMPSON died about 1830.
