Walter was born in 1910. His illegitimate son with Bronis Reid Fitzpatrick, Walter S. Jones, was born 2 September 1934. The elder Walter Jones passed away in 1987.
For most of his life, "Walter Jones" was just a name on a birth certificate for my father, Walter S. Jones. When I (Patricia Jones Dumond) began researching our genealogy in 1999 my father asked me if I thought I could find his father. I did find him in 2005, although he had passed away almost 20 years earlier.
I was able to contact a cousin and she was able to put my father in contact with a family member who had known both his father and his mother. After Dad told me where this woman lived I reminded him that we had visited her in McComb, Mississippi, back in the 1970s. He said that he had known her all his life, but thought she was just a friend of his mother's. It turned out that a deep, dark secret on his mother's side of the family was known, if not exactly common knowledge, on his father's side.
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Sources
1910 United States Federal Census - Mississippi, Record Type: 1910 Federal Census Enumeration, Household: Walter Jones, Record Info: Mississippi, Pike County, Beat 4, Household Number 171, Sheet 9B (29-30 Apr 1910), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
1920 United States Federal Census - Mississippi, Record Type: 1920 Federal Census Enumeration, Household: Walter C. Jones, Record Info: Mississippi, Pike County, McComb City, Household Number 116, Sheet 6B (7 Jan 1920), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
1930 United States Federal Census - Mississippi, Record Type: 1930 Federal Census Enumeration, Household: Walter C. Jones, Record Info: Mississippi, Pike County, McComb City, Beat 4, Household Number 42, Sheet 3B (3 Apr 1930), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com, U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Birth date: 15 Feb 1910 Birth place: Residence date: 1979 Residence place: McComb, MS.
Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Number: 426-05-8111; Issue State: Mississippi; Issue Date: Before 1951. Birth date: 15 Feb 1910 Birth place: Death date: Apr 1987 Death place: Mc Comb, Pike, Mississippi, United States of America.
Ancestry.com, Web: Mississippi, Find A Grave Index, 1798-2012 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Birth date: 15 Feb 1910, Death date: 6 Apr 1987.
McComb Enterprise Journal: Walter W. Jones Sr. Obituary, Location: McComb, Pike County, Mississippi, Page: 12 (7 April 1987), Pike County (MS) Public Library, McComb Mississippi USA, DEATH-MS-JONES-0001. Walter W. Jones Jr. is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Summit, Pike County, Mississippi, USA.
Beverly Jourdan, Telephone Conversation with Beverly Jourdan, Interviewer: Patricia A. Dumond, June 2005, Notes in the Collection of Patricia Anne Jones Dumond.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Walter by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Walter: