Monday, January 6, 2025

MEB Jones Sources Report

 Sources Report: Martin Ervin Brooks Jones

Dodd, Jordan R., comp.. Alabama Marriages, 1809-1920 (Selected Counties) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.

Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969. (Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Center for Health   Statistics) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original information: Hunting For Bears, comp. Alabama marriage information taken from county courthouse records.

1850 United States Federal Census. "Martin Jones." (Shelby, Alabama, 1850) Roll: M432_14; Page: 251A; Image: 765; National Archives, Washington, D.C. <Ancestry.com> accessed 2010.

1860 United States Federal Census.  "M.E.B. Jones." (Shelby, Alabama, 1860) Roll: M653_23; Page: 304; Image: 304; Family History Library Film: 803023; National Archives and Records Administration microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. <Ancestry.com> accessed 2010.

1870 United States Federal Census.  "M.E.M. Jones." (Beat 12, Shelby, Alabama, 1870) Roll:      M593_39; Page: 510A; Image: 466; Family History Library Film: 545538; [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009.

1880; Census Place: Columbiana, Shelby, Alabama; Roll: 31; Family History Film:1254031; Page: 162D; Enumeration District: 122; Image: 0011

1900 United States Federal Census.  "Martin Jones." (Tom Bean, Grayson, Texas) Roll: 1640; Page: 30A; Enumeration District: 0103; FHL microfilm: 1241640; 1241640 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

1910 United States Federal Census.  "Martin B. Jones." (Justice Precinct 2, Foard, Texas) Roll:    T624_1551; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 0110; FHL microfilm: 1375564; [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

1920 United states Federal Census.  "Martin E. B. Jones."  (Justice Precinct 2, Foard, Texas) Roll: T625_1804; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 88; Image: 74; [database on-line].   Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.

U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-      bin/fg.cgi; accessed 2012.

Personal information below:

Personal interview: Carolita Quillin, 1993.

Personal family photo album: compiled by Carolita Quillin. 1990s

Personal interview: Martin Frank Jones many phone calls, extensive visits 2013-2016

Blog by Martin Frank Jones, Family Memoirs, “Hopping on the Media Train,”  2012.

Correspondence with: Katherine Elizabeth Mead, descendant of Martha Catherine Jones (married James Robert Crawford), sister of MEB Jones

Bible pages sent by Katherine Mead Bibles in possession of the James Grady Crawford family

Letters by Dorothy Modelle (Jones) Autry, daughter of Burwell Jones.

Letters from Burwell Jones to his father, MEB Jones.

Letters from and to Ella Mae, wife of Grady Crawford, grandson of Martha Catherine Jones.

Letters from to Bob Milton Jones, brother to Dorothy Autry.

Family groups sheets by Dorothy Autry

M.E.B. Jones’ OLD TRUNK. Paperwork from the early 1900s

 

Martin Ewin Brooks Jones loved Mission Work

MEB settled in Vernon for a short time, and Martin Frank (my uncle) told me that MEB (my grandfather's great-grandfather) knew my Papa M...