Reps Hardaway Jones (1860 - 1913)

Born 8 Oct 1860 in Gwinnett, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Louisa Brandon (Burtchaell) Jones — married 8 Jan 1891 in Norcross, Georgia, USA

Died 25 Jan 1913 at age 52 in Norcross, Gwinnett, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Reps Hardaway Jones (1860-1913)

Son of George Hoyle Jones (1833-1915) and Anna Elizabeth Martin (1839- ).

Birth: 8 Oct 1860, Gwinnett, Georgia, USA.

1870 US Federal Census, Pinckneyville, Gwinnett, Georgia.^[1]

1880 US Federal Census, Pinckneyville, Gwinnett, Georgia.^[2]

A newspaper clipping from 9 Feb 1890 tells a story of Reps on his plantation.^[3]

Marriage: 7 Jan 1891, Norcross, Gwinett, Georgia, married, Louisa "Ludie" Brandon Burtchaell (1873-1952). ^[4] License issued 5th Jan 1891.^[5]

Potential Children:

1. Guy Rudolph Jones (1892-1991)
2. Edna Anna Jones (1893-1892)
3. Lydia Jones (1894-1974)
4. Ruby Pamela Jones (1895-1974)
5. Mattie Mae Jones (1896-1990)
6. Ellen McKay Jones (1898-1996)
7. Edward Hardaway Jones (1900-1969)
8. Miriam Daly Jones (1903-1946)
9. Virginia Jones (1908-1975)
10. Robert LeSeur Jones (1910-1933)
11. Patricia Rep Jones (1912-1967)

He was the "new principal keeper' of the Atlanta penitentiary in January 1891 when he eloped with Louisa Burtchaell on the night of 8-9th, and were married. (They had long planned to marry but her parents thought her too young; she had just turned 18.) ^[6]

1900 US Federal Census, Newton, Milton, Georgia^[7]

1910 US Federal Census, Newton, Milton, Georgia^[8]

Death: 25 Jan 1913, Norcross, Gwinnett, Georgia.

After twenty years' of marriage tragedy struck. Reps Jones was killed in a hunting accident on his farm in January of 1913. The Lawrenceville News Herald reported his double-barrelled shotgun accidently fell from his shoulder and both barrels fired, one of them striking him in the chest. He died immediately, leaving a wife and eleven children.

[Alternate DOD, 9 Jan 1913]

Burial: Norcross City Cemetery, Gwinnett County, Georgia; Row 15 SE section near the Pavilion.^[9]

[There is a story that he was originally buried in the Jones Family Cemetery in Old Milton County, later moved to Norcross.]

• Fact: Residence (1900) Militia Districts 1172, 1226, Newtown, Grogans, Milton, Georgia, United States
• Fact: Residence (1910) District 1172, Milton, Georgia, United States
• Fact: Burial Norcross City Cem.,Gwinnett, Georgia,United States

1870 Census

At the time of the 1870 census, Repps is 9, in the Gwinnett County, Georgia household of George W. Jones (both born in Georgia).^[10]

Research Notes

DAR descendant records are not considered reliable but they are good for leads. Reps is found in a descendant record for DAR Patriot Ancestor John Hoyle:^[11]

1. Edna Anna Jones (born 1893), married Henry Clinton Thomas in 1918^[11]
2. Reps Hardaway Jones (born 1860), married Ludy Brandon Burtchsell in 1884^[11]  
3. George Hoyle Jones (born 1833), married Anna Elizabeth Martin, in 1857^[11]  
4. Thomas Hardaway Jones (born 1799), married Margaret Harriet Hoyl in 1828^[11]
5. Adam Hoyl (born 1779), married Katherine Fite in 1807^[11]
6. John Hoyl (born 1740), married Margaret Costner in 1763^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc
3. ↑ --Last Wednesday afternoon Mr. Reps Jones of Milton county, was walking through his planation on the river, when he saw a wild turkey fly up into a tree. Night was coming on, and he knew it would remain in the tree all night, and, not having his gun with him, he did not disturb it. Early next morning he took his gun and went to look for the turkey, and, when near the place secreted himself and began imitating the call of a turkey, expecting to call the bird to him, but, after calling a while, and hearing no answering call, he stepped out from his hiding place, and there was the turkey within a few steps of where he stood. Before he could shoot the turkey rose on its wings and was sailing away. He shot at it and broke one of its wings, and it fell to the ground, but it was not near dead. It's legs were unhurt, and it began to use them, and ran off rapidly through the woods. Reps took after it, and was running with all his might, when he fell against a tree, peeling the skin off his nose the entire length of it. When he got up the turkey was gone, and may be going yet, as he has not seen it since. -- "Ancestry.com" image of clipping added by mtchpnt 2021-02-13
4. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
6. ↑ Marriage notice in the Macon Telegraph, 14 Jan 1891, forwarded by Gene Ramsay, e-mail 6 Sept 2016
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3JK-D9H : accessed 9 March 2023), Reps H Jones, Militia Districts 1172, 1226, Newtown, Grogans, Milton, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 104, sheet 12A, family 221, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,212.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML2T-KS7 : accessed 9 March 2023), Rees H Jones, Newtown, Milton, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 122, sheet 1B, family 21, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 204; FHL microfilm 1,374,217.
9. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79962964
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6QY3-FMK?cc=1438024&wc=K5HG-829%3A518665401%2C519468801%2C519470401 : 10 June 2019), Georgia > Gwinnett > Pinckneyville > image 1 of 28; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Enumerated 1 June 1870.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6} DAR descendant record for Eda Anna Jones (Reps' daughter), accessed 11 March 2023.
    • John Hoyle, DAR Patriot Ancestor #A058888

• https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/101813055/person/312211162813/fact
• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 10 February 2017, 03:42), entry for Reps Hardaway Jones(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KZC3-RYC); contributed by various users.
  • FamilySearch Person Sources: KZC3-RYC 8 sources as of 8 March 2023
  • FamilySearch Person Discovery: KZC3-RYC
• Gene Ramsay, William Daly Burtchaell: An Irishman in Gwinnett (draft of article for Gwinnett Heritage, vol. 3)
• James Tunstead Burtchaell III, C.S.C, ‘’The Genealogy of the Burtchaell Family’’, (2002) [PDF], p. 56