General Notes

ID: I07429
Name: James Jones
Sex: M
Birth: ABT. 1785 in South Carolina
Death: BET. 1850 - 1860 in Carroll County, AR. Long Creek area
Note:
Elizabeth Hampton said
that Mary Standridge was a white woman and that she had not family
previous to marrying James Jones. She married him between 1815 and 1820.
Descendants of James Jones, Sr.
Generation No. 1
1. JAMES2 JONES, SR. (THOMAS1) was born Abt. 1784 in South Carolina,
and died Bef. 1851 in Carroll Co. Arkansas. He married MARY SANDRIDGE in
Unknown. She was born Abt. 1799 in Georgia, and died November 18, 1876
in Sulphur Bend Community, OK.
Notes for JAMES JONES, SR.:
Now on this the June 30, 1888, come the above entitled case up for final
hearing. The case having been submitted by Bell and Bryan, attorneys for
applicants, on the 28th. After a careful investigation of all the
evidence, both oral and documentary, submitted by plaintiff, also the Old
Settler Payroll of Cherokees made in the year 1851, find for the
Plaintiff for these reasons; to wit: First: That the name James Jones,
from whom the above applicants have proven a lineal descent, appear upon
the Old Settler Pay Roll of Cherokees, made in the year 1851, and
numbered thereon 57, and further, that the names of Polly white and
Elizabeth Hampton, daughters and William Jones, also Martin Jones, now
dead, sons of the said James Jones, together with Andrew Hampton, Thomas
B. Jones, and Mary White, children of Polly White, Elizabeth Hampton and
William Jones and grand-children of James Jones, all appear upon the Old
Settler Payroll of 1851. Secondly: That James Jones took a reservation
under the terms of the Treaty of 1817 on the Tennessee River in the state
of Tennessee, as the roll of Reservees of that year shows, together with
a certified transcript of the bounds of this reservation from the
Interior Department of the United States. Thirdly: The attention of the
Commission is called to an act of the National Council, approved November
16, 1849, Which reads: Be it enacted by the National Council. That James
Jones be and he is hereby privileged to return to the Cherokee Nation
with his family and reside, and is admitted to the enjoyment of the
rights and privileges of citizenship of this Nation. Tahlequah, November
16, 1849, Approved Jno. Ross. Therefore, we the Commission on
Citizenship, a body duly created under the provisions of an act of the
National Council, approved Dec. 8, 1886, and rejecting or re-admitting
applicants for citizenship, who shall have filed their applications in
due season, under the 7th Section of the above act, and the amendment to
said act in relation to Old Settler applicants, approved February 7,
1888, do declare the Polly White, Elizabeth Hampton, Thomas Jones and his
nine children, William H, Artelia, Leroy A., John S, Hatta H.C., Betsy E,
J.H, Joel, and Arvilla Jones, and James E, William H, and J.S. White, and
Mary Jane White, Eli Herod, Polly Brown, Mont Smith, John Smith, and
Eliza Smith, and Joseph S. Herod and his two sisters, and brother,
Elzena, William W, and Louisa Bell Herod and James Joel Jones, son of
Margaret Jones, dead, and Andrew W. Hampton, William C.Mattie J. and
Clara May Hampton, and Alabama Hampton, and Emily Jones and Catharine
Hurley and her child Jancy Hurley, Theodore Jones, Elizabeth Jones,
Caldonia Jones, and Margaret A. Jones, and Sarah Ann Blaylock and her
four children: Mary Elizabeth,Milly Jane, Artella, and Lotta Ann
Blaylock, and Ruth Ann Atchison, and Josiah White, are entitled to all
the right and privileges of Cherokees by virtue of such blood, and are
hereby re-admitted as such. J. T. Adair, Chairman and D. W. Lipe,
Commissioner
More About JAMES JONES, SR.:
Burial: 1851, died along White River Arkansas
Census: 1850, Carrollton Co. AR Long Creek TWP
Emigrated: December 11, 1829, Nickojack, Alabama>IL>AR
Residence: 1817, Eastern Cherokee Reservation in Tennessee
Notes for MARY SANDRIDGE:
Accord