Patience Jones

Patience was born in 1847 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Patience's father was Pleasant Jones and her mother was Parrade Surgerner.  Her paternal grandparents were Robert Jones and Mary Gardiner. She had four brothers and eight sisters, named Landon C., James Marion, William, John Alexander, Martha Jane, Mary, Rosa Jane, Elizabeth, Sarah, Gensha, Jessee and Mahaley.  She died at the age of 50 on June 29th, 1897.¹