Elizabeth (Churchill) Jones (abt. 1744 - 1823)

Born about 1744 in Bushy Park, Middlesex, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of William Jones — married 24 Nov 1774 in Middlesex, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died 1823 at about age 79 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Betty (Churchill) Jones was a Virginia colonist.

Elizabeth "Betty" Churchill was a daughter of Col. Armistead Churchill and his wife Hannah Harrison of Middlesex County, Virginia. She was named "Bettey" in her father's will dated 21 August 1758.^[1]

She was married the 24th November in 1774 to William Jones, a son of Churchill Jones and Millicent Blackburne.^[2] Her father had been guardian to William and his brother Churchill after the death of their mother.

Betty and William resided in Spotsylvania County on what was then known as The Wilderness Tract, land once belonging to Governor Alexander Spotswood. She was mother to one child, Hannah Harrison Jones, per the 1903 memoir of William Jones' youngest daughter, Betty Churchill (Jones) Lacy by his second marriage, which states, "My father had no children for twelve years after his marriage, when his eldest daughter, Hannah Harrison, called for her grandmother, was born."^[3] This fact is also supported by the will of William Jones proved 1st November 1845 in Spotsylvania County naming his only two daughters from both of his marriages.^[4]

Betty is claimed to have passed away in 1823. William again married in 1828 to Lucinda Gordon, a daughter of Nathaniel Gordon and granddaughter of Betty's sister Lucy Churchill who'd married John Gordon.^[5] The couple named their only child after Betty and it is from the memoir of Betty Churchill Lacy, a great grandniece of Betty Churchill Jones, that much information can be gathered about the complex relationship of this family to others and the life of her father. She inherited the home Ellwood where Betty and William had resided when her widowed mother Lucinda chose to remarry.

Betty's own daughter Hannah Harrison Jones would first marry Dr. David Williamson. After his death, she again married to Judge John Coulter.

Sources

1. ↑ Will of A. Churchhill. Middlesex Co. Will Book E. p. 177. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9P6-L86H?cat=382907
2. ↑ Marriage of William Jones & Betty Churchill. Middlesex Marriages. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9XF-CB2W?i=70
3. ↑ "Memories Of A Long Life" by Betty Churchill Lacy, April 1903.https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/580184-the-william-and-elliott-lacy-families-of-new-kent-and-chesterfield-counties-virginia-with-forebearers-and-descendants?viewer=1&offset=0#page=130&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=Jones
4. ↑ Will of William Jones, dated 21 Nov 184?, proved 1 Dec 1845. Spotsylvania Wills Book p. 416 & 417. LDS Film # 007645811, image 515/567. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89PX-FCDD?i=514&cat=366695
5. ↑ Marriage of William Jones & Lucinda Gordon, 31 July 1828. Spotsylvania Marriages. LDS Film # 007579165. image 53/77. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9XF-X6QS?i=52

• [1]1810 Household of William Jones, Spotsylvania, Virginia
• [2]Will of William Jones, dated 21 Nov 184?, proved 1 Dec 1845. Spotsylvania Wills Book p. 416 & 417. LDS Film # 007645811, image 515/567.
• [3]The Parish Register of Christ Church Middlesex County, Virginia From 1653 to 1812. The National Society Of The Colonial Dames In Of America In The State of Virginia. Wm. Ellis Jones, Steam Book & Job Printer. Richmond, 1897, p. 287.
• [4]"Memories Of A Long Life" by Betty Churchill Lacy, April 1903. The William and Elliott Lacy families : of New Kent and Chesterfield counties, Virginia with forebearers and and descendants, (Family Search International), p. 124 thru 130.

• The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1936-01: Vol 44, No. 1. Virginia Historical Society, Jan 1936.

• [5]Ellwood: A Crossroads in History by Virginia November 7, 2018. Central Rappahannock Regional Library.