Mary M. (Brown) Jones (1843 - 1909)

Born 25 Mar 1843 in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Carroll W. Jones — married 4 Oct 1866 (to 18 Nov 1909) in Coffee County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 18 Nov 1909 at age 66 in Coffee County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Mary (Brown) Jones was born in Appalachia, in Tennessee.

Mary (Brown) Jones was a Tennessean.

Mary M. (Brown) Jones was born 25 Mar 1843 in Coffee County, Tennessee. She married Carroll W. Jones. She died 18 Nov 1909 in Coffee County, Tennessee. Carroll was a veteran of the Civil War serving as a private in the Union Army.

Birth and Baptism

Mary was the great grandmother of Gerald Jones. They were the parents of Lawson Woodard Jones, grandfather of Gerald Jones and five other children. Mary and her husband Carroll were farmers.^[1]

They had six children.

Children:

1. John William Jones.
2. Redman Brown Jones.
3. Alva Hatten Jones.
4. Lawson Woodard Jones
5. Mary Frances Jones.
6. Carroll L. Jones.^[2]

Death and Burial

The marriage ended upon her death 18 Nov 1909.

Mary M. Brown Jones was buried in the Brown-Roach Cemetery. Find A Grave: Memorial #24273350 retrieved Mary M Brown Jones

Mary M Brown Jones

Maiden Name: Brown

Event Type: Burial

Event Date: 1909

Event Place: , Coffee, Tennessee, United States

Birth Date: 25 Mar 1843

Death Date: 18 Nov 1909

Affiliate Record Identifier: 24273350

Cemetery: Brown-Roach Cemetery

Story passed down through family: The day Mary's brother William Lafayette Brown was buried, she stood over his coffin and said, "I'll soon be with you." She caught cold from the drizzly bad weather that day, which became pneumonia, and she died.

Find A Grave: Memorial #24273350 ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950,"
2. ↑ The Brown Family
3. ↑ Find A Grave Mary M Brown Jones Memorial 24273350

• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4NJ-TZM) FamilySearch.org) : 6 November 2017), Carroll Jones and Mary M Brown, 05 Oct 1866; citing Coffee, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 802,745.

• Find A Grave Mary M Brown Jones Memorial 24273350