Enoch Jones and Nancy Addy of Guernsey County, Ohio

PART FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

ENOCH JONES and NANCY ADDY

26 July 2016

Enoch Jones has a tombstone located not too far from the Illinois River in the Maple Ridge Cemetery. His final resting place is within yards of the LaMarsh Baptist Church in Hollis Township in Peoria County, Illinois. A rectangular slab with deep cut bold lettering simply reads, “Enoch Jones born 1764 died 10 May 1844 age 80 years”. The slab had broken in half over time but someone had put an iron bar through the two pieces to keep it upright.

This man whose bones lay beneath this slab was born before there was a United States of America. He rests in peace nearly 860 miles from where he was born and raised; 40 miles south of Philadelphia in Delaware second smallest colony. Enoch Jones spent nearly 30 years in an 30 square mile area bordered on the west by the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay and on the east my the Delaware River.

The parentage of Enoch Jones, and his brother Malachi, have not been verified with complete certainty. They were born in New Castle County, Delaware, most likely in White Clay Creek Hundred near the town of Newark.

Most family researchers claim that the Enoch Jones, who died in 1787 and had farms in both White Clay Creek Hundred and Pencader Hundred, was the father of these two boys. These same studies claim Jane Boggs as their mother which is not the case as she was a young bride when she married Enoch Jones about 1778. Enoch and Malachi would have been young teenagers about 14 and 12 respectively.

This Enoch Jones “Jr.” is the first fully documented ancestor of Kenneth Louis Jones for which there is a paper trail. Besides the dates of his birth and death found on his tombstone, it is known that he had a brother Malachi Jones [Malachiah John]. Enoch and Malachi married sisters of a New Castle County Delaware farmer named William Addy during the Presidency of George Washington.

United States Census records are generally the backbone of every American family research. However the Jones family had the misfortune of having thirty years of records destroyed by the British during the War of 1812 when they captured the City of Washington. The 1790 census for Delaware, the 1800 census for Virginia, and the 1810 Census for Ohio. The family records relating to Joneses and Addys  should have shown them in New Castle County, Delaware in 1790, in Berkeley County, Virginia in 1800 and the 1810 Census would have shown some of the family records in Ohio but all, with the exception of Washington County, were burned in a fire. The 1810 Census for Virginia did survive although Enoch Jones and his brother Malachi are not listed in Jefferson County Virginia as they were in Ohio.

We know nothing of Enoch’s personality, whether he was kind or stern. We know that at one point he went after his teenage son Jehu who had run away with his young uncle James Addy and brought him home. We know he was married for at least 43 years when both he and Nancy sold their farm in 1836. It is not know when she died but as she was ten years younger than Enoch they could have been married as long as 50 years.

Whether he was a religious man is not known either. His assumed father Enoch Jones Sr came from a Baptist family but Enoch Sr. himself had never joined that church. Enoch Jr married into a Presbyterian family, some of whom married within the Anglican tradition but later became Baptists. The Jones’ family and his relatives in Peoria County, Illinois were founders of the LaMarsh Baptist Church.

Enoch Jones Jr.’s progenitors were probably Welsh Baptists who came to America, just 50 years before he was born, for religious freedom. He was named after a father who died when he was 23 years old. His father was named for a popular great uncle named Rev. Enoch Morgan who was a pastor of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church. While his great grand father and grandfather were prosperous and educated men in their community, Enoch Jones was not schooled and could not read nor write his own name. He signed documents with an X as his mark. This suggests that his mother died when he was young who would have been the one to teach him letters.

His father had a female slave named Dorcus who may have been used as domestic help, cooking, doing laundry and other things a mother would have done in a household. She and a child were part of the inventory of the estate after his father died. Enoch Jones had a brother named Malachi Jones. He may have had more possibly a James Jones who may have had a son Elias.

Enoch was barely an adolescent when the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain in a document signed just 40 miles north of them. Enoch Jones was 12 years old when the Thirteen Colonies declared their Independence and went from being a subject of the king of England to that of being an American. He was 13 years old when he saw his childhood home in New Castle County Delaware over run by British Forces.  The Jones brothers were 13, and 11 when their father joined the Delaware Militia and New Castle County Delaware, and his home came under the control of the British during the campaign of 1777 to capture Philadelphia. It is unknown when Enoch Jr’s mother died but it was sometime during the 1770’s before 1778.  Enoch Jones Jr. was 17 years old when General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia in 1781.

Enoch Jones Jr. was about 14 years old when Jane Boggs became his stepmother. Enoch Jones Jr.’s new stepmother was the teenage daughter of Rev. John Boggs, pastor of the Welsh Tract Baptist Church and was about the same age as he was.  Having a teenage sons and a teenage wife in the same household could have led to some awkward moments.

The Jones brothers probably left home when their father began to have a second family by Jane Boggs. Children from previous marriage were often discarded by wives of second marriages especially if the wives were young and new mothers themselves. If so he would have to have found work as a farm laborer to support him self as he was illiterate nor had he been apprenticed out to learn a skill. What ever the case may have been it would not have been long afterward his father’s remarriage that Enoch and his brother struck out on their own as hired laborers for local farmers. Enoch Jones was around 17 when he and his brother were farm laborers probably working for not much more than room and board.

As youths the boys easily found work on the neighboring farms of Mill Creek Hundred and White Clay Hundred as they came from a respectable family of Baptists. Sometime during the early 1780’s Enoch Jones and his brother Malachi found work on the farm of William Addy in Mill Creek Hundred, just a few miles north of their father’s place. As records found in the 1780’s show William Addy was struggling financially and these Jones boys would have been cheap labor for Addy, perhaps even working mainly for room and board.

William Addy was nearly the same age as Enoch Jones Jr’s’ father but only had young sons born in the 1770’s so he would have needed farm laborers to help produce a crop.  In time William and Eleanor Addy may have become like a surrogate family to the young men and it helped that the Addy family had pretty daughters about the brother’s ages.

William Addy was a Scotsman whose ancestors came to Northern Ireland during Oliver Cromwell’s attempt to settle Protestants there in the 1650’s. A little more than a hundred years later in 1760, Addy was a 20 year old Presbyterian youth who emigrated from Ulster, in Northern Ireland after finding himself in trouble with authorities there. William Addy relocated to Delaware and managed in 1768 to marry an heiress of a small farm in Mill Creek Hundred named Eleanor Clark. Her father had left her his estate as the sole surviving heir.

When Enoch Jones was about 19 years old the Paris Peace Treaty was signed and Britain recognized the sovereignty of the Unites States as a new Nation. The Capital of the United States was located at Philadelphia which was just 40 miles north of Enoch’s home in New Castle County. There the Articles of Confederation, the first government of the United States was replaced with the Constitution in 1787 when Enoch Jones was a young man about 23 years old.

In that year his father Enoch Jones died intestate without a will or naming his heirs. Enoch Jones was 23 years old, and his brother Malachi Jones was 21 years old when their father died leaving them without any prospect of an inheritance. All of their father’s estate went to Jane Boggs and their four half siblings. His property was dilapidated and his widow Jane Boggs Jones, his widow, left with four children under the age of 10, quickly remarried in 1789. At this point all ties with his father’s Jones’ Welsh Baptist heritage were severed.  

The inauguration of George Washington, as the first President of the United States, took place on April 30, 1789 in New York City. By summer this same year, Malachi Jones married William Addy’s eldest daughter Martha.

William Addy had a large family which included two daughters Martha and Nancy born in 1772 and 1774. William Addy must have taken a liking to the Jones Brothers to have allowed his eldest daughter Martha to marry 23 year old Malachi Jones. In the 18th century money had to be given as a bond before a marriage license or “bann” could be issued and as Malachi was a laborer certainly William Addy secured the bann.

Malachi Jones married Martha Addy on 25 Aug 1789 in the Holy Trinity Church also known as the Old Swede Church of Wilmington, New Castle County Delaware. Martha would have been 17 years old, and Malachi about 23 years old. In the record Malachi Jones is listed as “Malachia John”. Records of the Old Swede Church in Wilmington showed that Malachi married in the very same church that William Addy had married Eleanor Clark some 21 years before. At the time of her eldest daughter Martha was married Eleanor Clark Addy was eight months pregnant with her daughter Mary.  

In this same year 1789, Enoch and Malachi ‘s step mother Jane Boggs was married to John Redmon who became administrators of their father’s estate.

The first federal census was taken in 1790 to determine the distribution of the number of delegates to the House of Representative by population of each state. Unfortunately Delaware’s 1790 census was destroyed by the British during the War of 1812 and therefore an examination of New Castle County is impossible. It would be doubtful if it would have mentioned Enoch Jones as a head of a house hold as that he certainly was still a single man. However William Addy certainly would have been included as well as Malachi Jones as he was recently married but then he also may have just been simply iincluded in the household of Addy.

When Enoch Jones was 27 years old in 1791 Congress established the federal capital in swamplands on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland about 100 miles from Mill Creek Hundred in Delaware. That same year The Bill of Rights went into effect.

The first child of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones was born 31 October 1791 in Mill Creek Hundred. He was William Addy and Enoch Jones Sr’s first grandchild.  He was named James Jones and may have been named after Malachi’s grandfather James Jones.

Great Britain and France were at war again in 1793 and while the United States remained neutral, the disruption of trade between the two countries was economically hurtful. On 1 March 1793 William Addy sold his 242 acre farm in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle, Delaware. The money from this sale helped finance his move west. The itch to move west was a strong motivator for small farmers like William Addy who sought better prospects for his children where land could be had at a reasonable price. The prospects for his sons and sons-in law in Delaware were not good as land became expensive and over developed. Land was plentiful and cheap in western Virginia and western Pennsylvania and the threat of Indian reprisals were minimal..

The date of the marriage between Enoch Jones Jr. and Nancy Addy is unknown but more than likely the marriage occurred in New Castle County before the departure of the Addy family. One reason the marriage might not be recorded was the couple may have married without a bann due to financial reasons.

At the time of William Addy’s departure from Delware in 1793, his family consisted of his 43 year old wife Eleanor, 23 year old son Robert, his married 21 year old daughter Martha, his 27 year old son in law Malachi Jones and his 18 month of grandbaby James Jones, his married 19 year old daughter Nancy, his 29 year old son in law Enoch Jones, his 16 year old son Hugh Addy, his 13 year old son William, his 8 year old son John, his 4 year old daughter Mary, and his 1 year old son Thomas. The wife of Malachi was pregnant when they left Delaware as she gave birth to daughter Elizabeth Jones in 1793 while traveling through Pennsylvania.

In his preparation to move west, William Addy would have used a heavy covered wagon known as the Conestoga that was used extensively during the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth century. The origins of the distinctive freight wagon can be traced to the Conestoga River region of Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County. Conestoga wagons, with their distinctive curved floors and canvas covers arched over wooden hoops, became a common sight over the next century, as they carried up to 6 tons of household and farm implements.

The Addys and Joneses probably brought two wagons which were most likely drawn by teams of oxen as they could be used later as draft animals once the family had settled again. They would have brought with them at least one milk cow, some geese and chickens in a coop on the side of the wagon, their horses, and what dogs and even cats they might have had.

As that they were traveling through already settled farm country they would not have needed to carry much food, mostly household goods and furniture. Robert Addy and the Jones brothers would have been the teamsters, while William Addy as patriarch rode a horse. The wagons would have carried Eleanor Addy, her pregnant daughter Martha, possibly Nancy for company and the smallest children. Older children would have walked the 10 or 15 miles a day that the teams could only pull the heavy wagons. The Addy and Jones family thus left Delaware in 1793 heading towards cheap or even free land in western Pennsylvania and western Virginia. Why the family chose Virginia over Pennsylvania is unknown.

As part of the great migration away from the eastern shores, the Jones brothers followed their father in law into western Virginia where they lived near Harper’s Ferry for about 15 years before crossing the Appalachia Mountains to the mountain ranges on the eastern Ohio side. By then their Jones relatives in Delaware were long forgotten.

The emigrating family crossed into Pennsylvania from Delaware, following toll roads before crossing through Maryland and settling near Harper’s Ferry in Berkeley County Virginia on the Potomac River. The Village of Harper’s Ferry was established at the convergence of the Shenandoah River as it entered into the Potomac. The area was booming because the federal government had just established a federal armory at Harper’s Ferry and that may have been the reason they settled there. The portion of Berkeley County in which the families first settled later became Jefferson County in 1801 and even later was included in West Virginia when it became the 35th state during the American Civil War.

Many of the Addy and Jones researchers have carelessly place the Addy and Jones children who were born before 1801 as having been born in Jefferson County rather than in Berkeley. Jefferson County, which included the village of Harper’s Ferry, was formed from Berkeley County on 8 January 1801. The County was named for Thomas Jefferson who became the third President of the United States 4 March 1801. It became part of West Virginia in 1863 during the Civil War.

Almost as soon as the Addys and Joneses settled on a farm on the road between Harper’s Ferry and Shepardtown, a farmers’ insurrection in western Pennsylvania broke out against the federal government now known as the Whiskey Rebellion. In 1794 Alexander Hamilton had ordered an excise tax on Whiskey distillers which affected the farmers in western Virginia, Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania more than the big distillers in the east. While the rebellion may not have affected the recently arrived Addy and Jones family, they certainly would have been aware of the anger over the federal government.  

In July 1794 five hundred armed men from western Pennsylvania attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville and the US Marshalls who had writs to arrest men who had not paid their taxes. On 7 August 1794, President Washington issued a presidential proclamation announcing, with "the deepest regret", that the militia would be called out to suppress the rebellion. President Washington then called on the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to send a militia force of 13,000 men to put down the insurrection. Because relatively few men volunteered for militia service, a draft was used to fill out the ranks and draft evasion was widespread. Conscription efforts resulted in protests and riots. Three counties in eastern Virginia were the scenes of armed draft resistance and in Maryland, Governor Thomas Sim Lee sent 800 men to quash an antidraft riot in Hagerstown only 30 miles from Harper’s Ferry.

Out of the 4,800 soldiers taken from the state of Virginia, “fully twelve hundred” were taken from counties then existing within the present limits of West Virginia like Berkeley. Owing to the sparse population of this area in the 1790’s it is not unreasonable to suggest that 30 year old Enoch Jones, his 28 year old brother Malachi and William Addy’s eldest son Robert would not have been affected by a draft of militia men.

In October 1794, President Washington traveled west to review the progress of the military expedition against the rebels. It was "the first and only time a sitting American president led troops in the field". The insurrection collapsed as the army marched into western Pennsylvania the rebels all went home without any confrontation before Washington arrived. The Whiskey Rebellion, however, demonstrated that the new national government had the will and the ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.

After the rebellion Enoch Jones and Nancy Addy had their first child and would have eight more children who grew to maturity; but who knows how many died as infants or children as that the mortality rate for minors on the frontier was extremely high. A case of measles or whooping cough carried away many children.

Enoch Jones and Nancy Addy Jones first was child born 21 December 1795 in Berkeley County, Virginia. Jesse Jones was born the year that the Jay Treaty was finally ratified and British troops were required to withdraw from the Ohio Valley completely. This and the Pinckney's Treaty with Spain which opened navigation on Mississippi River allowed settlers to immigrate into the Ohio Valley.

On 1 January 1797 Enoch and Nancy Addy Jones’ second son, Jehu Paten Jones, was born also in Berkeley County, Virginia. The naming of these two sons is intriguing because they do not follow the normal naming pattern of the 18th Century of naming offspring after family members. There are no known members of the Addy or Jones’ families who are named Jesse or Jehu. As that son Jehu was given a middle name of Paten [Patton] indicates that he may have been named for someone the parents admired like perhaps a preacher. Children were often named for popular ministers, presidents, or Revolutionary War heros. But the choice of Jesse is an enigma.

Two months later, on 4 March 1797, John Adams became the 2nd President of the United States.  During Adams’ administration, settlers from Western Pennsylvania and Western Virginia began to build homes around the abandoned Fort Steuben [Steubenville] and moving later into the Military District of Ohio Territory. In the 1798 Congress appropriated certain lands in Ohio to satisfy claims of the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war known as the "Military Land District”. Nearly ten years later Enoch Jones would make a new home there for his family.

Enoch Jones and Nancy Jones had a third son in December 1799 and he was the first to be named after a known relative. He was named William Jones and was born near Harper’s Ferry in Berkeley County, Virginia. He had a year older cousin of the same name, the son of his uncle Malachi Jones. Apparently both Martha and Nancy wanted to name a son after their father William Addy. These boys would have gone by either Billy or Willy to distinguish them certainly.

In the year 1800 the United States’ capital was finally relocated to Washington City in the District of Columbia. At the turn of the century, Enoch Jones lived about 64 miles northwest from Washington in Berkeley County, Virginia near Harper’s Ferry.

The 1800 census of Virginia was destroyed by the British in the War of 1812 when the capital of Washington City was burned. The destruction of the 1790 Delaware Census and the 1800 Virginia kept family information on the Jones and Addy families lost for 20 years.

However Enoch Jones would have been the head of his own household as he was about 36 years old with a wife and three sons. His wife Nancy Addy Jones was age 26 and his three sons were Jesse age 5, Jehu age 3 and William was born near 1800. Enoch’s brother Malachi Jones would have been about 34 years old and head of a household that included his wife Martha Addy Jones age 28 years and three sons James age 9 William age 2, and David Jones born in 1800.

A population scheduled for Berkeley County from 1800 was saved and showed that 22,006 people lived in the county and that it was the second most populated county after Frederick. There were also 3,971 slaves in the county making slaves 18 percent of the population. Neighboring Loudoun County had a population of 20,523 of which 4,990 were slaves or nearly 25 percent of the county.  

In 1802 Enoch Jones’ brother Malachi Jones left Jefferson County Virginia and moved 100 miles north to Huntingdon County Pennylvania. Why he left his brother and father in law behind is unknown however if he had been in the militia that put down the Whiskey Rebellion he would have gone through this country. He may have hated living in a slave state or maybe a family quarrel was the reasons. For what ever reason, maybe just the itch to be moving, here in Huntingdon his daughter Martha Jones was born on 28 January 1803. Enoch’s wife Nancy Addy Jones was probably pregnant when her pregnant sister and brother in law Malachi moved away.

Enoch Jones remained in Jefferson County, Virginia until around 1808-10. His first daughter Mary Jones was born six months after her cousin on 27 July 1803. This daughter was known as “Polly”. Molly and Polly were common nicknames for Mary.

Enoch Jones was 39 years old when President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States in 1803 when he purchased the Territory of Louisiana from Napoleon for 15 million dollars. The purchase included all of present day Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota plus part of present day Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Most importantly it place the port of New Orleans in the hands of America allowing Midwest farmers to ship their crops down the Ohio and the Mississippi River without tariffs.

Ohio also became a state in 1803, but this new state was largely a wilderness. Only the river town of Cincinnati had much of a presence among the states 60,000 plus residents. the area that eventually became Guernsey and Coshocton counties future home for the Jones and Addys was divided up between Tuscarawas, Muskingum, Washington and Belmont Counties on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains.

In 1804 Muskingum County was created and organized, from the northern portion of Washington County. In early 1810 Guernsey County was then created out of Muskingum and Belmont Counties, and organized on 1 March 1810. Guernsey County had a rugged topography, with few streams and narrow valleys known as “hallows”. It did not offer very favorable conditions for settlement and was sparsely populated.  This isolation may have been a preference for those who settled there and became known as “hill folk”. The main economy was  logging, subsistence farming, and whiskey distilling.

This portion of Ohio in which Enoch Jones and the Addys eventually purchased property was called the United States Military District. The Military District was established in 1796 to be used as payment for service in the Revolutionary War. The land was divided into Ranges which with townships numbered east to west and about 5 miles wide (16,000 acres) rather than the usual six miles. The Addy and Jones families settled in the 3rd and 4th Ranges. The township then was divided into quarter townships of 4,000 acres each. The quarter townships were subdivided by their original proprietors in whatever manner they wanted but usually in units of 40 acres ie 40, 80, 160, 320 and 640 acres. One square mile of land was 640 acres of land and 320 acres a square half a mile.

Divisions within a township were called sections usually of 1 square mile. In the original Ordinance of 1785, Congress set aside the 16th section of a township for educational purposes (the first such federal support). Section 16 of a township was reserved for a school for the township which was supported by funds from property sold within that section.

Each section was broken into quarters of about 160 acres each, which are referred to by their compass position, Northeast, Northwest, Southwest, and Southeast. Most single farming family generally could not farm anything larger than 160 acres and even at that some acreage would be broken down to 40 acre lots to be rented out.

Malachi Jones had another son in 1804 while living in Pennsylvania. He was named Robert Jones, more than likely named after his uncle Robert Addy. It is unknown whether he was born in Huntingdon County or Alleghany County or someplace in-between.

The year Malachi Jones’ son Robert was born, the land office of Muskingum County, Ohio completed its survey of the region into townships of five miles square, and farms were subject to entry in the land office at Zanesville, at two dollars per acre under the Federal Land Act of 1800.

This Land office was now more readily accessible to potential purchasers but enticing them to move to Ohio was difficult. Most farmers in Ohio risked a year’s work by sending their goods by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi river ways to market at New Orleans. Those living in Ohio’s interior had scarcely any way to market their crops and livestock. Cash money was extremely scarce and most business transactions were carried on by barter. However one could not barter with the federal land office which required cash or a mortgage.

From the various places his children were born, it is obvious that Malachi Jones was restless and on the move during much of the first decade of the 1800s. He moved 120 miles in 1806 due west from Huntingdon County to the village of Pittsburg located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which forms the Ohio River. One of the earliest industries of Pittsburg was boat building for settlers heading to the Ohio Country.  Pioneers heading into the Northwest Territory generally used flatboat or keelboats to transport their families, livestock, and possessions using the current of the river to propel them along to river ports. Malachi’s son Hugh Jones was born 6 September 1806 in Allegheny County Pennsylvania. He was was named for Martha Addy Jones’ brother Hugh Clark Addy.

Enoch Jones’ brothers in law Robert and Hugh Addy came to Ohio in 1806 when the state was still considered a backwoods frontier. Enoch’s brother in law Hugh Addy may have moved to Ohio running away from fathering a son out of wedlock in Washington County Maryland. Although he never married the mother, in his will he left a legacy to this illegitimate child who was of age when his father died in 1828.

In frontier Ohio most settlers lived in log-cabins and worried about wild animals like wolves, panthers and bears. Men wore buckskin trousers and raccoon fur hats rom the animals they hunted and women dressed in bonnets and home spun gingham clothing. Both men and women chewed tobacco or smoked it in pipes religiously.

Some Native Americans also still lived in Eastern Ohio and resented the Whites intrusion onto their lands. There were Native American towns on Indian Camp Run in Knox township, near the mouth of Bird’s Run in Wheeling township, and on Salt Fork creek in the southeastern part of Jefferson township places where Enoch lived. Enoch’s brother in law James Addy’s account of moving to Tuscarawas County in 1808 stated there were plenty of “Indians around”. Guernsey County where Enoch eventually settled however had very little Indian history, and there is little to indicate that Guernsey County was ever more than a hunting ground for tribes whose permanent headquarters were elsewhere.

 In the early 1800’s and for some years afterwards, there were few roads to the eastern side of the Appalachia Mountains and the settlers found their way from place to place by means of blazed trees. These were trees from which a small portion of the bark had been chopped off, so as to leave a mark. That is where the term “blazing the trail” originated.

Coshocton County, Ohio where most of the Addy families lived was formed from parts of Tuscarawas County and Muskingum Counties on 15 February 1808. Probably in the summer of that year after the rains were over and the rivers low, the family of William Addy headed to Tuscarawas County where his eldest sons Robert Addy and Hugh Addy had already located about 16 miles from each other.

The History of Coshocton had this to say about the Addy and Jones families. William Addy “was from near Harper's Ferry, Virginia and brought with him five sons and four daughters. Malachi and Enoch Jones, two brothers, came about the same time from Virginia. They married two of the Addy girls and lived on their father-in-law's place.”

In 1808 William Addy’s children who were at home were John Addy age 23, Mary Addy age 19  Thomas Addy age 16, Joanna age 14 and James Addy age 12. His eldest sons were already in Ohio and his son William Addy remained in Virginia with Enoch and Jones.

James Addy stated, “I well remember the journey from Virginia to Coshocton County. We came in a wagon, to which five horses were attached. We brought out seven horses and several cows. Two of my sisters, Martha and Nancy, were already married, and they remained behind, but afterwards came to Ohio. Brother Robert was also married, and had also come out to Tuscarawas County, and we settled near him. Some of the children had died in Virginia. Nine came out at once, viz: Father and Mother, sisters Mary and Joanna, and William, Hugh, John, Thomas, and myself. As it was in 1808 when we journeyed, we did not meet with any great difficulty in getting along. One incident impressed me deeply. When we were on top of the Allegheny Mountains we came across two parties who had met, strangers to us, but evidently relatives or old acquaintances. They were crying bitterly. They were on pack horses. It seems that one family had started for the west; the other was returning from the west to Virginia. I supposed the returning party gave a most lugubrious account of affairs in the west, and with such effect as to cause the emigrating party to turn back.”

By 1808 Malachi Jones and Martha Addy had returned to Jefferson County, Virginia perhaps to join the rest of their family in preparation for the move. Their son John Jones was born in 1808 in Jefferson County and Enoch Jones’ son James Jones was also born in Jefferson County, Virginia that year.

James Madison became President of the United States on 4 March 1809 following the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Eliza Jones a daughter of Enoch and Nancy Jones was born 27 August 1809 some say in Coshocton, Ohio although she may have been born in Jefferson County, Virginia as 1810 Tax Record of that County Virginia show that Enoch Jones was still being taxed on property he owned there. However he may have been on the tax rolls without actually living there if he had unsold property in the county.

In 1810 Jefferson County Virginia had a population of 11,851 with a slave population of 3,532 or 30 percent. This increase of an economy depended on slave labor may have been an impetus for the families to move to Ohio, a free state. Small farmers could not compete economically with slave owners. While slavery was abolished in Ohio by the state's original constitution (1802) at the same time Ohio took the lead in aggressively barring black immigration insuring that slaves didn’t follow masters into Ohio as they did into Kentucky.

Enoch Jones was part of the great American westward movement and settled in the areas of Ohio that John Chapman [Johnny Appleseed] had spent a life time growing apple trees for the pioneers who followed. Enoch Jones was neither rich nor famous nor participated in civic affairs. Being illiterate he simply managed to scratch out a living on an 80 acre farm in the wilderness of eastern Ohio. He never raised livestock beyond his own family needs. Tax records show that at the most he owned 2 horses and 3 cows. Other livestock like chickens, hogs, goats were not taxed. He probably grew corn as his main crop but much of his farm would have been made up mostly of subsistent gardens and orchards. No doubt he was a corn whiskey distiller as the mountaineers of the Appalachia hills drank whiskey at almost every meal.

The 1810 Census of Ohio was lost however in 1810 Enoch Jones was 46 years old and his wife Nancy Addy Jones was age 36. Jesse Jones, the eldest of their children, was 15, Jehu Jones 13, William Jones age 11, Polly Jones age 7, James Jones age 4 and Eliza Jones age 1. They probably were probably in Coshocton County, Ohio by this time although as stated a Jefferson County, Virginia tax list includes Enoch Jones in 1810.

Enoch’s brother Malachi Jones would have been about 44 years old in 1810 and head of a household that included his wife Martha Addy Jones age 38 years and children James Jones age 19, William age 12, David Jones age 10, Martha Jones age 7, Robert Jones age 6, Hugh Jones age 4, John Jones age 2 and Elias Jones born 1810. Malachi Jones was also in Coshocton County in 1810 as he had a son named Elias Jones born there that year.

Enoch’s father in law William Addy in 1810 would have been 70 years old and probably still head of a household in Coshocton County, Ohio. His wife Eleanor Clarke Addy was nearly 60 years old. Others also in Coshocton County who may or might not been included in his household were children his sons, Robert Addy age 40, Hugh Addy age 33, John Addy age 25, Mary Addy age 21 years, Thomas Addy age 18, Joanna age 16 and James Addy age 14.

Coshocton County, Ohio had been organized on 31 January 1810 from portions of Muskingum and Tuscarawas Counties. Its name comes from the Delaware Indian language and has been translated as "black bear crossing". To the south east of Coshocton was Guernsey County, organized 10 March 1810 from portions of Muskingum and Belmont counties.

Linton Township in Coshocton County, home of most of the Addy Families and of Malachi Jones, adjoined Knox Township in Guernsey County on the northwest. The Addy and Jones families owned land in both the adjoining townships of Linton in Coshocton and Knox in Guernsey. Both counties are located in the Appalachian foothills covered with forests and not suited for large scale farming. Wells Creek flowed through both townships and was main source of transportation.

In August 1810 Tecumseh, a chief of a breakaway Shawnee group of 400 armed Native American warriors, traveled down the Wabash River in Indiana Territory to meet with William Henry Harrison governor of the territory. Tecumseh insisted that the Fort Wayne treaty of 1809 that ceded Indian lands to white settlers was illegitimate. Tecumseh informed Governor Harrison that unless the treaty was nullified, he would seek an alliance with the British in Canada.

The situation continued to escalate leading to the outbreak of hostilities between Tecumseh's followers and white settlers later that year. Tensions continued to rise until Tecumseh and his warriors were defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe 7 November 1811. This was a major defeat of the Indians of the Ohio Valley which allowed white settlers to move further west into Indiana and Illinois Territories.

The youngest daughter of Enoch and Nancy Addy Jones was born 1 February 1811 in Knox Township Guernsey County, Ohio when her mother was 37 years old. She was named Mary Charlotte Jones.

Enoch’s young brother-in-law James Addy related a story that would date from 1811. “When about fifteen years of age, I imagined I was not so well treated as I ought to be, but for so thinking, I have since become fully persuaded, I was a very foolish youngster. I was jealous of my older brothers, and thought I was neglected because they were getting what befitted their age, and which I was eventually allowed in due course of time. So I, like many other foolish and undutiful sons, resolved to run away.

So I “lit out” between two days, and clandestinely left kind parents and loving brothers and sisters to be pained at my conduct and apprehensive for my comfort and even safety. I went to Dillon’s Furnace, near Zanesville, and hired out as a chopper [wood chopper]. In the course of three or four months my brothers Hugh [age 34], William [age 31], and John [26] came down Wills’ Creek and the Muskingum River with a raft of timber, and learning my whereabouts, came to see me and persuaded me to return home, where I remained awhile, till another runaway fit seized me, and I went away again, this time “toling” away a nephew, my sister’s child. [Jehu Jones age 14]. We were overtaken, when some miles away, by my companion’s father, Enoch Jones [age 47], who took his son back with him, and said to me that my brothers would soon overtake and carry me back. We [ James and Jehu] had agreed to go to Virginia, but on being left alone I changed my course and went to Cambridge, [Guernsey County] and from thence struck out to Zanesville again.”

This passage reveals that James’ parents William and Eleanor Addy were alive in 1811 but would have been quite elderly and it must have been difficult raising a willful teenage boy. It also speaks to an adventuresome streak in Jehu Jones. While James and Jehu were uncle and nephew in reality there were two teenage boys nearly the same age living on the frontier and looking for adventure not to be found on the family farm.

The raft James Addy mentioned were probably flatboats, generally built and piloted by farmers bringing crops and lumber to markets. They were limited to 20 feet in width in order to successfully navigate the river but could range from 20 to 100 feet in length. Flatboats could be built by unskilled farmers with limited tools and training making them an ideal mode of transport for isolated farmers living in the Old Northwest and the Upper South. Farmers could make the journey down the Ohio River to where it converged at St. Louis or on down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The boats themselves were usually salvaged for lumber at St. Louis or New Orleans because they could not easily make the journey upriver.

At the end of 1811 on 16 December the great New Madrid Earthquake occurred near St. Louis Missouri Territory with a momentous aftershock on the same day. It was so great it made the Mississippi River flow backwards and rang church bells as far away as Boston. Certainly tremors were felt in Ohio.

In 1812 the Ohio State legislature provided for a road from Cambridge the county seat of Guernsey to the town of Coshocton, the county seat Coshocton County. Before then Indian foot paths and deer trails and the creeks were the main means of travel. Generally these county roads were built by conscripted local labor that cleared trees and graded the road but these roads made travel between the two counties more convenient and less hazardous.

James Madison was reelected president March 1812 and on 18 June 1812 the United States declared war on Great Britain for attacking U.S. vessels headed to France. Although Guernsey County was sparsely settled during the second war with Great Britain, numerous soldiers volunteered from Coshocton and Guernsey Counties for what became known as the War of 1812. At least two of Enoch Jones’ brothers in law Hugh Addy (age 35) and Robert Addy (age 42) served as privates in the 2nd Regiment (Williams’) Ohio Volunteers along with David Maples whose family would later become attached to the Addys and Joneses.

A man named Thomas Addy served in the 1st Regiment (Delong’s) Ohio Militia as a Sergeant but whether this was the 20 year old son of William Addy is unknown. Enoch Jones was 48 years old at the time and probably never served.

James Addy stated that “In the spring of 1813, [age 17] I went to Pittsburgh. But my badness had not been fully “sweated” out of me, for I again “toled” away my nephew [Jehu Jones age 16]. We reached Pittsburgh. I was employed to go on a boat up the Allegheny. I afterwards followed boating several years, to some advantage, financially.” The slang “toled” came from the word stole meaning took away. As that Jehu Jones would take off again with his teenage uncle showed that these youth had an adventurous bond between the two of them.

The 1814 Tax List of Coshocton County, Ohio showed no Jones on the tax list although Malachi Jones and Enoch Jones were living in the county in 1814. They may have been living on their father in law, William Addy’s place. Malachi Jones had a son also named Malachi born 8 April 1814. Enoch Jones also had a son that year named John Jones. The year these cousins were born the nation’s capital was captured and burned by British, on 24 August 1814. Three weeks later Francis Scott Key observed the flag still over Fort McHenry at Baltimore and on September 14, he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner".

The Treaty of Ghent signed Christmas Eve 1814 ended the War of 1812, but fighting continued since communication was so slow in the early 19th Century. Therefore on 8 January 1815 General Andrew Jackson defeated the British forces at New Orleans after the war had ended with the meaningless death of thousands of British soldiers.

On 23 September 1815, at the age of 51, Enoch Jones purchased 160 acres of land in the Military District in the Northeast half of Section 19 of Township 4, Range three which became Knox Township in Guernsey County. This land was located on the county line between Linton Township and Knox Township. He would work this land for 7 years before selling it to his brother in law in 1822.

As that so few people lived in Linton and Knox Townships, those familes with eligible daughters and sons of marrying age intermarried with each other especially within the same church community. Two Ohio pioneer families that the Joneses and Addys married into were the Baptist Marlatts and the Maples families. Jesse Jones son of Enoch Jones married into the Marlett family as did many of his Addy uncles and aunts. He married Elizabeth Marlett the younger sister of Nelly and Jacob Marlatt which made Jesse’s uncle Thomas Addy also his bother in law.

James Monroe became President of the United States on 4 March 1817 and remained in office until 3 March 1825. Malachi and Martha Addy Jones’ eldest daughter, Elizabeth Jones married 4 September 1817 at the age of 24 to Samuel Norris in Coshocton County, Ohio. A few years later Martha Addy Jones eldest brother Robert Anthony Addy who was a widower in 1820 married Anne Norris in Coshocton County, Ohio. The relationship between Samuel Norris and Anne Norris has not been determined but obviously they were kin.

The following year was a busy time for marriages. Enoch Jones’ brother in law John Addy at the age of 33 married Nancy Malone on 8 June 1818 in Coshocton County, Ohio. Nancy Addy Jones’ niece, Eleanor Addy, the 18 year old daughter of Robert Addy married 3 September 1818 John Baker in Coshocton County, Ohio. John Baker was the brother of Rezin Baker who had married Eleanor’s older aunt Mary Addy.

Nancy Addy Jones youngest sister Joanna Addy, age 24 married 18 October 1818 David Maple in Coshocton County, Ohio. David Maple was the son of David Maple and Mary Elizabeth. He was born circa 1794 in Pennsylvania. Enoch Jones’ daughter "Polly" Jones married Isaac Maple, his son Jehu Paten Jones married Anne Maples, his daughter Mary Charlotte Jones married 20 October 1831 to Abraham Maple, and John Jones married Mary Olima Maple all children of William B. Maple and Mary "Polly" Fuller.

On the 3rd of February 1819 Enoch Jones and his sons Jesse and Jehu purchased 80 acres in the West half of the Northeast Quarter of Section 22 in Township 4 in Range 3 which in March was located in newly formed Knox Township. Here Enoch and Nancy Jones probably spent most of their lives before traveling to Illinois circa 1836 to be near their children.

During the Panic of 1819, land speculators, bankers and other lenders, as well as farmers were affected by an economic down turn. More than 29% of public lands were in default on payment. Land purchasers were often wildly optimistic about their ability to meet payments. Too many actual settlers, who should have used their funds to improve land they already owned, purchased additional land beyond their ability to pay.

The Congress passed the Land Act in 1820 abolished the credit system for purchasing public land but reduced the price to $1.25 per acre and the minimum one could purchase to 80 acres which allowed people to buy small farms. Still the purchase of federal land was a bureaucratic process. Once a buyer paid for his land, the registrar at the land office issued a final certificate which was then sent to federal authorities in Washington D.C. and a U.S. Patent was issued. Accounts and records also had to be verified. Until 1833, each U.S. Patent was signed by the President of the United States himself. The patent was then returned to the originating land office to be delivered to the owner. Some owners failed to record their U.S. Patents in county courthouse while others never even picked them up from the land office.

Ohio was still a wilderness in 1820. Only a few towns were of respectable size, and nearly all of them along rivers in the state’s southern reaches. Settlement was challenged by great forests and soggy plains. The Jones family had nestled themselves in the forested valleys of the foothills of the Appalachia Mountains subsistent farming and logging.

The 1820 Census of Ohio is the first census in which Enoch Jones appears. He was well into middle age at 56 years old along with his wife at age 46. None of their children had married yet although Jesse Jones the eldest of their children was 25, followed by Jehu Jones 23, William Jones age 21, Polly Jones age 17, James Jones age 14 Eliza Jones age 11, Charlotte Jones age 9, and John Sherman Jones age 6.

His brother Malachi Jones would have been about 54 years old in 1820 and perhaps not in good health as he would die sometime in 1824. His household included his wife Martha Addy Jones age 48 years, children James Jones age 29, William Jones age 22, and David Jones 20, Martha Jones age 17, Robert Jones age 16, Hugh Jones age 14, John Jones age 12, Elias Jones age 10, and Malachi Jones age 6.

William Addy would have been 80 years old and his wife Eleanor Clarke Addy nearly 70 years old in 1820.  As that the census does not list William Addy in either Coshocton County nor Guernsey County nor does any of his children contains a man born before 1775 it can be reasonable to assume that both he and his wife had died by then and probably buried on their property in Linton Township. The only Addys enumerated in either county were sons William Addy age 40 married to Weltha Ann Jones, John Addy age 35 married to Nancy Malone, and Thomas age 28 married to Nelly Marlatt.

His sons Robert Addy age 50, Hugh Addy age 43, and James age 24 are not enumerated in the 1820 although they are known to be alive at this date. Robert Anthony Addy was a widower who married 15 August 1820 Anne Norris in Coshocton County, Ohio. James Addy was married to Rebecca Warden probably daughter of Isaac Jefferson Warden. Hugh Clark Addy who never married.

The 1820 Census of Knox Township, Guernsey County, Ohio Enumerated Enoch Jones’ household on 7 August 1820

Free White Male         age 45 and over          Before 1775 Enoch Jones born 1764

Free White female      age 45 and over          Before 1775 Nancy Addy born 1774

Free White male         age 16 thru 25 1795-1802 William Jones born 1799-1800

Free White male         age 16 thru 18: 1802-1804 unknown son?

Free White female      age 16 thru 25: 1795-1802 Mary "Polly" Jones born 1802-1803

Free White male         age 10 thru 15: 1805-1810 James Jones born 1808

Free White female      age Under 10: 1810-1820 Mary Charlotte Jones born 1811

Free White male         age Under 10: 1810-1820 John Jones born 1814

Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1

The male in his house hold age 16-18 is an enigma. He is too young to have been William Jones.

Enumerated next to the house hold of Enoch Jones were his brothers in law Thomas and John Addy listed as “Ady”. Perhaps they lived close to Enoch as that their father William Addy had died and Enoch being 20 to 30 years older was like a father figure or patriarch.

Enoch Jones’ brother Malachi is listed as Malakiah Jones in the 1820 Census of Linton Township, Coshocton County, Ohio also dated 7 August 1820

Household Malakiah Jones

Free White Male         age 45 and over: Before 1775 Malachi Jones born 1766

Free White Female     age 45 and over : Before 1775 Martha Addy born 1772

Free White Male         age 26 thru 44: 1776-1794

Free White Female     age 16 thru 25: 1795-1804

Free White Male         age 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 David Jones born 1800

Free White Female     age 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 Martha Jones born 1803

Free White Male         age 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 Robert Jones born 1804

Free White Male         age 10 thru 15: 1805-1810 Hugh Jones born 1806

Free White Male         age 10 thru 15: 1805-1810 John Jones born 1808

Free White Male         age under 10 1811-1820 Elias Jones born 1811

Free White Male         age under 10 1811-1820 Malachi Jones born 1814

Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3

Malachi Jones died between 1820 and 1824 in Oxford Township, Coshocton County. He left a widow Martha with at least four minor children. If he left a will it had not survived. A chancery court record from Coshocton states that in the July Term 1824 John Jones,[age 16], David Jones [age 21] and Hugh Jones [age 18] did a “reorganizance” which was a discharge. These sons of Malachi Jones may have been petitioning a redistribution of their father’s estate although there is no evidence that Malachi ever owned real estate so if this is about Malachi’s estate it would have been his personal estate.

Malachi’s eldest son James Jones is listed in Oxford Township just north of Linton Twp , Coshocton, Ohio Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820

Free White male age 26 thru 44: 1776-1794 James Jones born 1791

Free White female age 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 Barbara Walters born 1797

Free White female age under 10: 1811-1820 Catherine Jones born 1817

Free White female age under 10: 1811-1820 Martha Jones born 1819

Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1

James Jones married Barbara Walters 13 October 1815 in Guernsey County, Ohio. She was born 10 December 1797 in Alleghany County Pennsylvania to John Walters and Catherine Huffman. Father of 14 children.

An unaccounted for Jones is an Elias Jones who is also enumerated in the 1820 Census of Linton, Coshocton, Ohio on 7 August 1820 and was the next household enumerated after Malachi Jones. As the 1790 through 1810 censuses for where the Joneses lived have been lost it is hard to tell whether this Elias Jones had followed the brothers Enoch and Malachi from place to place.

He is listed as a Free White Male age 26 thru 44: 1776-1794 and certainly is old enough to have been a son of either Malachi or Enoch Jones, but that is unlikely as that Malachi named a son Elias born in 1811.  

This Elias Jones is old enough to have even been even a younger sibling of Enoch and Malachi but that is unlikely also. He is an enigma. There are six persons listed in this household: Elias Jones, a wife 26 thru 44:[1776-1794], three children a son and two daughters under the age of 10 born between 1811 and 1820. As that this couple had a young family born after 1810 they themselves would have been between the ages of 26 and 30 years old. Within the household also is a female age 45 years or older born before 1775 who more than likely is a mother in law but who was she is unknown.

This Elias Jones is mentioned in records of the Coshocton County Court during April Term 1818. He had filed a suit against George Anspaugh for slander. What the slander entailed is unknown however the case was dismissed with Anspaugh the defendant having to pay the court’s cost.

Enoch Jones’s two eldest sons are listed in the township of Linton, in Coshocton County, Ohio in 1820. They were enumerated under the household of Jehu Jones next to the household of their uncle William Addy.

The 1820 Census of Linton Township, Coshocton, Ohio Enumeration Date: 7 August 1820

Household Jehu Jones

Free White Male – ages 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 Jehu Paten Jones born 1797

Free White Male – ages 16 thru 25: 1795-1804 Jesse Jones born 1795 age 25

Free White Female - ages 26 thru 44: 1776-1794 unknown

Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 2

As that Jesse Jones did not marry until 1823 and Jehu Jones not to 1828,to Anna Maple the woman in the house hold could possibly be Jehu Jones first wife.  If he was married it would make sense that he was listed as head of the household and not his brother who was older.

National policy over the extension of slavery into the lands of the Louisiana Purchase produced the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which allowed slavery in Missouri but forbade slavery above 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude in the rest of the Louisiana Terrritory. This settled the quarrel over slavery for the rest of Enoch’s life time but not that of his grandchildren.

Guernsey County Tax Records for 1821 show that “Enock” Jones paid $1.80 in taxes for 160 acres in the North East quarter of Section 19. Remarkable the following year in1822 Enoch Jones sold to his brother in law William Addy that 160 acre farm located in the northeast quarter of section 19 for only $4.75. Section 19 was just above Section 22. As a section is just a square mile Enoch Jones would live within a mile of his brother in law until moving to Illinois.

Enoch and Nancy Addy Jones’ eldest son, Jesse Jones was married 23 February 1823 to Elizabeth Marlett in Guernsey County, Ohio. They were married by George Mitchell, a Baptist minister of the Gospel. Betsy Marlettt was the younger sister of the wife of Jesse Jone’s  uncle Thomas Addy and she was born about 1804 in Virginia.

By the end of the year on December 2, 1823 President James Monroe delivered to Congress the doctrine named for him regarding the ending of the colonization of the Americas by foreign nations.  

John Quincey Adams became president 4 March 1825 and only served one term. But in his first year  in office, the Erie Canal was completed that allowed Ohio Farmers now to ship their crops and produce to New York City rather than to New Orleans.

Also the same year Enoch and Nancy Jones’ daughter, 21 year old Mary "Polly" Jones was married on 20 April 1825 to Isaac Maple in Knox township Guernsey County, Ohio by Baptist Minister Daniel Hurlbert. Isaac was the son of William B. Maple and Mary "Polly" Fuller and born 12 December 1804 in Jefferson County. The couple would later move from Ohio with other relatives to Hollis Township in Peoria County, Illinois where she died 25 November 1872. Isaac Maples died 20 March 1884 also in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois. They were members of the Lamarsh Baptist Church.

The 1825 Tax List of Knox Twp, Guernsey, Ohio showed that both Enoch Jones and his brother in law James Addy were living within Knox Township. Enoch Jones received a land grant from the United States government of 80 acres in Section 22 Knox Township in 1825

A Tax list from 1826 of Knox Township Guernsey County, Ohio showed that Enoch Jones was living on land located in the north half of the northeast quarter of section 22 in Knox Township. Here he had an 80 acre farm worth $109 on which he paid a tax of 65 cents and in was taxed 67 cents for 2 horses worth $ 80 and 4 cattle worth $32. He was the only person owning land in Section 22 which would have been a square mile. His son Jesse Jones owned 1 horse and 2 cows on which he paid 34 cents in Taxes. His brother in law William Addy was listed as living now in Section 19 near Enoch with a 160 acres farm worth $218 with a horse worth $40 and 4 cattle worth $32. He paid $1.30 on his real estate and 43 cents on his livestock. James Addy is not shown paying taxes on real estate just personal property of 1 horse and 2 cows and paying 34 cents like his nephew Jesse Jones.

The “cattle” were probably milk cows or even oxen for plowing. Beef was an expensive commodity with most families raising chickens, hogs, geese, and goats for food. Wild game was plentiful too, so venison and game fowl probably supplemented the dinner table. A horse would have been the most expensive item for a family to own

Enoch Jones on 27 March 1827 purchased 80 acres in the east half of the northeast half of section 22 of Knox Township in Guernsey County, Ohio from the United States. Tax Records show that Enoch Jones paid 82 cent tax on 80 acres valued at $109. He still had two horses and three cows. His son Jesse Jones had 1 horse and 2 cows. William Addy has the 160 acre farm in Section 19 he had bought from Enoch and James Addy had 160 acres in the south east section of Section 16.

In 1827 Hugh Jones son of the late Malachi Jones sued James Miskinmen on July 31 for “trespass”. Trespass often meant an encroachment on a person’s land by allowing animals to graze, illegally logging timber, or even taking up some of another person’s property. As Hugh Jones was a minor still he was represented by his “next friend William Robertson. The case was settled 22 November 1827 with the defendant James Miskisnmen found “guilty of trespass in manner” by a jury. He was ordered to pay Hugh Jones $20. It appears that there was no hard feelings with the Miskinmen family as that Hugh Jones at the age of 20 married Sidney Ann Miskinmen on March 13, 1828 in Coshocton County, Ohio. He may have married to relieve his aged widow mother of the burden of caring for him. Sidney Miskimen was born on February 19, 1810 in Coshocton County, Ohio, the daughter of William Miskimen and Annie Barbara (Schryock) Miskimen.

In 1828 there were only 24 property owners paying taxes in Guernsey County, Ohio and among them were Enoch Jones, his son Jesse Jones, and his brothers in law William Addy, and James Addy with only Enoch Jones, William Addy and James Addy owning real estate. Enoch Jones owned 80 acres in the North half of the North East Quarter of section 22 of Knox Township. As that it was only 80 acres worth $109 it was not taxed. However he owned personal property that included 2 horses worth $80 and 3 cows worth $24 for which he paid 58 cents. His son Jesse Jones owned no real estate but has personal property of 1 horse and 2 cows on which he paid 48 cents in taxes.

Later in the summer 31 year old Jehu Paten Jones, the second son of Enoch and Nancy Jones and probably a widower, married Anne Maples on 8 July 1828. She was daughter of William B. Maple and Mary "Polly" Fuller and sister of Isaac Maple who had married Jehu’s sister Polly in 1825. She was born 7 January 1801 in Pennsylvania, and died 12 July 1865 in Marion County, Iowa. He had three children at the time of his marriage to Anna Maples.

Andrew Jackson “Old Hickory” became President of the United States on 4 March 1829 and served to 3 March 1837. James Addy remarked “Have always belonged to the Democratic Party. The first presidential candidate I voted for was Andrew Jackson. Have voted at each presidential election since, except for Martin Van Buren, and did not vote for him because I was among the Indians, and could not.”

The 1830 Census of Ohio showed that Enoch Jones and much of the Addy Family were still leaving in Guernsey and Coshocton Counties. Enoch and his two eldest sons are living in Knox Township in Guernsey while the Widow of Malachi Jones and her sons are in neighboring Coshocton County. Additionally Enoch Jones, Jehu and Jesse were shown in tax records where he paid property tax of $1 for 80 acres valued at $109 in the west half of the Northeast quarter of Section 22 of Knox Township.

The household of Enoch Jones located in the 1830 Census of Knox Township, Guernsey County, Ohio

Free White male         age 60 thru 69: 1761-1770 Enoch Jones born 1764

Free White female      age 50 thru 59: 1771-1780 Nancy Addy born 1774

Free White male         age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 James Jones born 1808

Free White female      age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Eliza Jane Jones 1809

Free White female      age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Mary Charlotte 1810/11

Free White male         age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825 grandchildren

Free White male         age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825 grandchildren

The household of Jesse Jones in the 1830 Census of Knox Twp, Guernsey County, Ohio

Free White male         age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Jesse Jones born 1795

Free White female      age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Elizabeth Marlett born 1804

Free White male         age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825 John Jones born 1824

Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830 William Jones born 1827

Jesse Jones and Elizabeth Marlatt were married 23 February 1823. As that the ages of the two children in this census matches about the ages of the sons listed in the 1850 census living within Jesse’ household these children are probably John and William and Elizabeth may have been pregnant with James Jones who was born in 1830.

The Household Jehu Jones in the 1830 Census of Knox Twp, Guernsey County, Ohio

Free White male         age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Jehu Jones born 1797

Free White female      age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Anna Maple born 1801

Free White male         age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825 John Jones born 1823

Free White female      age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825 Rebecca Jones born 1824

Free White male         age Under 5: 1826-1830 JehuJones born 1826

Free White male         age Under 5: 1826-1830 Isaac Jones born 1829

Jehu and Anna Maples Jones were married 8 July 1828 which makes the birth of the three children born prior to that date the children of an unknown wife. It is doubtful that these children are Anna’s who was born in 1810 and John Jones in 1823. As that Jehu was 31 years old when he married Anna who was 18 years old certainly opens the possibility of an earlier wife.

1830 Census of Wheeling Township, Guernsey County, Ohio

Household of Isaac Maple son in law of Enoch Jones

Free White male age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Isaac Maple

Free White female age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Polly Jones

Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830 unknown

Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830 unknown

Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830 Abraham Maple

Isaac and Mary "Polly" Jones Maple were married on 20 April 1825 In 1850 there still had 8 children living at home with them in Peoria County, Illinois where they moved between 1836 and 1840.

In neighboring Coshocton County was Enoch’s brother Malachi’s widow who was Nancy Addy Jones sister.

The 1830 census of Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Household Martha Jones

Free White female age 50 thru 59: 1771-1780 Martha Addy Jones born 1772

Free White male age 15 thru 19: 1811-1815 Elias Jones born 1810-1811

Free White male age 15 thru 19: 1811-1815 Malachi Jones born 1814

The 1830 census of Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Household James Jones son of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones

Free White male- age 30 thru 39: 1791-1800 James Jones born 1791

Free White female- age 30 thru 39: 1791-1800 Barbara Walters born 1797

Free White female- age 10 thru 14: 1816-1820 Catherine Jones born 1817

Free White female - age 10 thru 14: 1816-1820 Martha Jones born 1819

Free White male - age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White male age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White female age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830

Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830

Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830

The 1830 census of Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Household William Jones son of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones

Free White male age 40 thru 49: 1781-1790

Free White female age 30 thru 39: 1791-1800

Free White female age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White male age Under 5: 1824-1830

Free White male age Under 5 1824-1830

A Sarah Jones is listed in 1830 census of Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio on the same page as Martha Jones pg 26. Perhaps she is a widowed daughter in law wife of unaccounted for Robert Jones

1 Free White female age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Sarah Jones

1 Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830

1 Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830

The 1830 census of Linton Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Household David Jones son of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones

Free White male age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 David Jones born 1800

Free White female age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 unknown

Free White male age Under 5: 1826-1830 unknown

Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830 unknown

Hugh Jones Linton, Coshocton, Ohio pg 21 son of Malachi

Free White male age 20 thru 29: 1801-1810 Hugh Clark Jones born 1808

Free White female age 20 thru 29 1801-1810 Sidney Ann Miskimen born 1810

Free White Persons - Males - Under 5:

Elias Jones is still living near Malachi Jones’ family and found in the 1830 census of Oxford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio on pg 26

Free White Male age 40 thru 49: 1781-1790

Free White female age 30 thru 39: 1791-1800

Free White Male age 15 thru 19: 1811-1815

Free White female age 10 thru 14: 1816-1820

Free White Females age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White Females age 5 thru 9: 1821-1825

Free White female age Under 5: 1826-1830

Free White female age 80 thru 89: 1741-1750

There is an Enock Jones of Franklin Township in Coshocton, Ohio with his brother Abraham Jones in 1830 who moves to Guernsey County and makes land search confusing. This Enoch Jones however is married to a Rutha perhaps Johnston. This Enoch Jones and Abrahm T Jones witnessed a will of Ruah Ann Johnston 6 November 1837 in Franklin Twp. They are also in Wheeling Township, Guernsey County in the 1840’s. When examining deed records of Guernsey County it is important that Enoch Jones and wife “Rutha” are in Township 4 [Wheeling Twp] while Enoch Jones and wife “Nancy” are in Township 3 [Knox Twp]

President Andrew Jackson authorized the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which began the process of removing Indians off their land east of the Mississippi. The Indian Removal Act, passed with strong support from President Andrew Jackson, authorizes the federal government to negotiate treaties with eastern tribes exchanging their lands for land in the West. All costs of migration and financial aid to assist resettlement are provided by the government. Jackson forces through a treaty for removal of the Choctaw from Mississippi within the year.

Enoch Jones youngest daughter Mary Charlotte Jones was married 20 October 1831 to Abraham Maple son of William B. Maple and Mary "Polly" Fuller. He was born 1 February 1811 Yellow River Jefferson County Ohio and died 6 Oct 1889 at Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois.

The last tax list of Guernsey County for Enoch Jones is from 1832 . It showed that Enoch Jones paid property taxes still in Knox Township on his 80 acres in the west half of the North East quarter of section 22. The 80 acres was still valued at $104 and he paid a tax of $1.02. Enoch also still had 2 horses valued at $80, 3 cattle valued at $24. His eldest married sons were also tax but showed them not owning any land. Jesse Jones paid a tax of 56 cents on a horse and 2 cattle together worth $56 while Jehu Jones had a single horse and 1 cow totally $48. Guernsey County Tax records also showed that Knox Township was the poorest in the county.

In 1832 white settlers began pouring into Illinois because of the Illinois governor’s order that Native Americans should be removed from the state as part of Jackson’s Indian Removal Act. In the 1830s, land in Illinois could be had for $3 an acre. However that same year Chief Black Hawk of the Sac Nation initiated what became known as the Black Hawk War in Illinois over boundary disputes.

Skirmishes and battles were fought between Native Americans and Whites and on 15 June 1832, President Andrew Jackson, displeased by the handling of the war, appointed General Winfield Scott to take command. Scott gathered about 950 troops from eastern army posts just as a cholera pandemic had spread to eastern North America. As Scott's troops traveled by steamboat from Buffalo, New York, across the Great Lakes towards Chicago, his men started getting sick from cholera, with many of them dying. At each place the vessels landed, the sick were deposited and soldiers deserted. By the time the last steamboat landed in Chicago, Scott had only about 350 effective soldiers left. Cholera began to spread in land throughout the Ohio Valley. In June of 1832 it had killed thousands in New York City. Fear of Cholera may have been a reason that the children of Enoch Jones and their spouses formed a wagon train to seek new lands out west in Illinois.

In 1832 Jesse Jones, Jehu Jones, Isaac Maple, Abram Maple, Hugh Jones and their families moved nearly 450 miles from Guernsey and Coshocton Counties to settle on the Illinois river in Peoria County, Illinois. This wagon train would have included eight adults and 13 children.

That same year a coal mining operation began in Peoria County on the banks of the LaMarsh Creek. Coal from that mine was hauled by oxen to Kingston Lake where it was loaded on boats for St. Louis. The coal mines in Peoria began attracting people to the area which caused the population to boom.

The Maple brothers planted orchards as well as farmed. The area became known for growing grapes and the first vineyard was planted in the area in1832. In 1838 the Maple brothers planted the first chestnut trees in Peoria County. They also operated a cider mill to press apples from their apple orchards and sold a product called Apple Jack. The brothers Isaac and Abram Maple prospered so much that in 1858 they built a three story steam saw and grist mill for $5,800.

Some of these early pioneers of Peoria County, Illinois returned to Ohio after a few years. Among them were his son Jesse Jones, his nephew Hugh Jones, and son in law Abraham Maple. Enoch Jones’ eldest son Jesse Jones returned to Ohio by 4 September 1835 when he acquired 40 acres in the southwest quarter of west half of Section 21 of Linton Township in Coshocton. Perhaps his wife wanted to return to be near her people as his lands were near William Marlatt, Abraham Marlatt, and David Marlatt all who lived of Section 21 of Linton Township.

Hugh Jones, Enoch Jones’ nephew must have also returned to Guernsey County, Ohio for at one point as he acquired on 5 August 1835 forty acres in the southwest quarter of the south west part of section 22 in Knox County within a quarter mile from his uncle Enoch.

After the death of Enoch’s daughter Charlotte Jones Maple in 1835, her widower Abraham Maple returned to Guernsey County to marry Charlotte’s cousin Ruhama Addy. They married 3 January 1836 in Guernsey County, Ohio. Ruhama Addy Maple was the daughter of William Addy and Wealtha Ann Jones and born 23 Nov 1811 in Guernsey, Ohio. Ruhama Addy Maple died 12 Mar 1854 in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois.

Enoch Jones and his wife Nancy Addy sold their Guernsey County farm in 1836 probably in preparation for a move to Peoria County Illinois along with other relatives. Enoch Jones was 72 years old and no doubt was moving to be with his children. The only exception to this migration west was Enoch’s brother in law William Addy Senior and his son nephew William Addy Junior who chose to stay in Guernsey County aften buying up the farms and property of relatives who were moving away. William Maple sold his 80 acres in section 9 Knox Twp to William Addy in 1836. It may have been sold at auction because William Addy only paid $4.50 for the property. Enoch Jones’ borther in law William Addy owned 240 acres in Guernsey County, Ohio and died there in 1857.

Ohio’s growth and development proceeded at an impressive pace, so that by the 1840 census Ohio had become the nation’s third most populous state, a distinction it would hold until 1890. The rapid growth of the state may have been a contributing factor in the families’ decision to migrate.

Enoch Jones now 72 years old sold the farm that he had bought from the United States government 1 June 1827 when he was 63 years old. Because this land was located in the Military District Interestingly the grant was was signed by President John Quincy Adams himself as the grantor. This property was 80 acres located in section 22 of Township 3 in Range 4.

Moving with Enoch and Nancy Jones was son James Jones who married Emily Ellen Powell 5 September 1837 after settling in Peoria County, Illinois. She was the daughter of William Powell and Mary Davis and born circa 1820 in Guernsey County, Ohio. Emily’s brother Albert Gallup Powell would married Eliza Jones, James’ sister six months after the death Enoch Jones.

Hard times generally hit first and hardest among farmers and falling farm prices may have encouraged the Joneses to move west. They were not wealthy men but small middling farmers, growing corn and harvesting timber to make a living.

On 4 March 1837 Martin Van Buren became president and immediately was blamed for the “Panic of 1837”. On May 10th Banks closed in Philadelphia and New York City which began a financial panic. The depression that followed would last throughout Van Buren's entire term. This economic depression which caused the collapse of real estate prices also caused food price to collapse, which was ruinous to farmers and planters who couldn’t get a decent price for their crops. People who lived through the depression following 1837 told stories that would be echoed a century by their descendants during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

On 27 October 1838 the LaMarsh Baptist Church in Peoria County was organized with fourteen members all originally from Guernsey County, Ohio. They included William Maple and his wife Mary Fuller, Enoch Jones’s daughter Polly Jones and his son in law Isaac Maple, his former son in law Abram Maple husband of his niece Ruhama Addy, Robert Buchannon and his wife Rebecca Maple, Enoch’s daughter Eliza Jones, his nephew Hugh Jones and his wife Sydney Ann Miskinum among the fourteen.  Additionally the citation for this organization mentioned “Sarah Maple”. Sarah Cowgill was married to William Maple the son of William and Mary Maple. The LaMarsh Baptist Church first meetings were held in homes of its members before a house of worship was constructed in 1849 at a cost of $1,000 next to the cemetery. The first pastor was of the church was Rev. A.M. Gardner who served until 1848 and very well may have performed the funeral of Enoch Jones who was buried in the cemetery next to this church.

The national desire to spread the American Republic beyond the Louisiana Purchase began in earnest in the mid- 1830’s as Americans poured into the Texas province belonging to Mexico and debated over who controlled Oregon, the Americans or the British. In the fall of 1838 a Rev. Jason Lee visited the town of Peoria in Peoria County, Illinois on a national speaking tour about the wonders of the Oregon country and encouraged people to move westward.

Oregon fever in America was so intense that on 1 May 1839, Rev. Lee recruited sixteen men organized themselves in military fashion, adopting the name "Oregon Dragoons". They elected Thomas J. Farnham as their captain. They carried with them a large flag, a gift from Mrs. Farnham, emblazoned with their motto, "Oregon or the grave." This group of now eighteen men set out with the intention of colonizing the Oregon country. They wanted to drive out the British Hudson Bay Company operating there. These men of the Peoria Party initially led by Thomas J. Farnham were among the first pioneers to traverse most of the Oregon Trail. Although the group split up near Bent's Fort on the South Platte after Farnham was deposed as leader, nine of their members eventually reached Oregon

 As that a list of these men is known, none of the Addy or Jones men were among this group. However Peoria County, Illinois was the home of Enoch Jones and his extended family in 1839 so no doubt they were aware of the excitement generated by this venture.  Enoch Jones’ adventurous brother in law, James Addywhile still a resident of Ohio, did go off to both Texas and Oregon for a period of time.

By the 1840’s the families of Enoch and Malachi Jones had mostly left Ohio for the grasslands of central Illinois. John Sherman Jones, the youngest son of Enoch and Nancy Addy Jones, married 10 Mar 1840 in Peoria County, Illinois.  Mary or rather "Polly" Maple was the daughter of William B. Maple and Mary "Polly" Fuller. She was born 4 December 1812 in Guernsey, Ohio and died perhaps Kansas.

This marriage made Enochs sons Jehu Jones and John Jones not only brothers but also brothers in law. EnochJones’ daughters Polly and Charlotte also had married brothers of Polly Maple, Isaac and Abraham so the children of these couples were all in effect were double cousins.

A quick look at the 1840 census would indicat that an Enoch Jones had remained in Guernsey County Ohio and enumerated in Wheeling Township. However this is an entirely different man who was married to a woman named Rutha. It is evident he is not the same man as all the age groups are all wrong for a man in his seventies.

Enoch Jones 1840 Census of Wheeling Township, Guernsey, Ohio

Free White Male         age 40 thru 49:            1791-1800

Free White Female     age 40 thru 49:            1791-1800

Free White Male         age 15 thru 19:     1821-1825    

Free White Female     age 15 thru 19:     1821-1825

The Enoch Jones who was married to Nancy Addy is not enumerated as the head of a household in the 1840 Census but it is known he did not die until 1844. There are only 58 families living LaFayette Precinct, which later became Hollis Township, according to the 1840 Census of Peoria County. The children of Enoch Jones seem to cluster together among the Maple, Addy, with a few other Joneses kinfolk.

While the 1840 census of Peoria County, Illinois does not list Enoch Jones as the head of any household it does show that within LaFayette Precinct lived his sons and sons in law James Jones, John Jones, Jehu Jones, Isaac Maple and Abraham Maple basically adjoining each other’s farms. Also in LaFayette precinct are an Elias Jones and another William Jones Jr who are most likely kinfolk. In neighboring LaMarsh Precinct were the sons of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones, Elias Jones , Hugh Jones, and Malachi Jones. The census is barely legible and the Precinct is hard to decipher.

William Jones Jr is 17 households from James Jones. James Miskimnin is 11 households from James Jones. The household next to James Jones is William Jones.  The first William Jones is probably a son of Malachi Jones. The second William Jones is followed by John Magee then Jehu Jones, John Jones, Isaac Maple, and Abraham Maple. This William Jones is probably the son of Enoch. Only John Magee is not a relative in this cluster of six families. After Abraham Maple came the Buck families, Jacob Easman, and John Fuller. The Fuller families were kinfolk to the Maples. Between Joseph Fuller and Alexander Fuller was the family of William Maple Junior. The 57th household included in LaFayette Precinct was Elias Jones.

Within the household of William Jones there is a male listed as between the ages of 70 and 80 years [1760-1770]. In fact William Jones is the only household in Lafayette Township that contains a male listed in that age range. The other male in the household was listed as a 30 - 40 [1800-1810] years old and as William Jones was not in his seventies, no doubt the elderly man was Enoch Jones, who would have been 76 years of age.

As there are no females listed in any of the Joneses household being between the ages of 60 and 70 [1770-1780], which Nancy Addy Jones would have been in 1840, it is pretty safe to assume that she had passed away by the time of the census. The only female in that age range in Fayette Township was included in the house hold of William Maple Senior and most likely his wife.

Enoch and Nancy’s son William Jones married when he was nearly 43 years old. He married 17 year old Mary Goodwin on 17 November 1842 in Peoria County, Illinois, daughter of Levi Goodwin and Mary Thomas. She was born circa 1825 in Ohio.

Enoch Jones’ son Jehu Jones, from whom the family of Kenneth Louis Jones descends, has a household that is very hard to decipher from the faded record but it appears to included 2 sons ages 5 through 9 years [1831-1835], 1 son age 10 through 14 years [1826-1830], 1 son age 15 through 19 [1821-1825]years, 1 daughter age 5 through 9 [1831-1835], his wife age 30 through 40 [1800-1810] years and himself age 40 through 50 years [1790-1800]. This household therefore included Jehu Jones born 1797, Anna Maples Jones born 1801, John Jones born 1824, Isaac Jones born 1829, George Jones born 1831, William Jones born 1835, Mary Ann Jones born 1840

1840 Census of LaMarch Precint, Peoria County, Illinois

Malachi Jones son of Malachi Jones and Martha Addy Jones

Home in 1840 La Marsh Precinct, Peoria, Illinois

Free White male age 20-29 [1811-1820] Malachi Jones born 1814

Free White male age 20-29 [1811-1820]

1 Free White female age 20-29 [1811-1820]

1 Free White female age Under 5: [1836-1840]

2 Persons Employed in Agriculture:

Hugh Jones son of Malachi Jones and Martha Addy Jones

Home in 1840 La Marsh Precinct, Peoria, Illinois

Free White Male age 30 thru 39: [1801-1810] Hugh Clark Jones born 1806

Free White female age 20 thru 29: [1811-1820] Sidney Ann Miskinmen

Free White male age 10 thru 14: [1826-1830] William Jones born 1829,

Free White female age 5 thru 9: [1831-1835] Eliza Jones born 1833

Free White male age Under 5: [1836-1840] James Jones born 1836

Free White male age Under 5: [1836-1840] Elias Jones born 1839

Hugh Jones died 22 Mar 1878, Peoria County, Illinois age 72. He married Sidney Ann Miskinmen on March 13, 1828 in Coshocton County and she died 1845. Hugh Jones remarried 30 June 1846 Charlotte M Reeves in Peoria County, Illinois

Elias Jones son of Malachi and Martha Addy Jones

Home in 1840 La Marsh Precinct, Peoria, Illinois

Free White male age 20 thru 29 [1811-1820] Elias Jones born 1810

Free White female age 30 thru 39: [1801-1810]

Free White male age Under 5: [1836-1840]

Free White female age Under 5: [1836-1840]

Free White female age Under 5: [1836-1840]

In 1841 William Henry Harrison was elected President on the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler” having been the hero defeating Chief Tecumseh. John Tyler was his running mate. Harrison delivered the longest inaugural address up to that time on March 4, 1841 on an extremely cold and contracted pneumonia. When he died a month later John Tyler unexpectedly became President of the United States. John Tyler was president when Enoch Jones died in the spring of 1844 in Illinois.

It is not known from what Enoch Jones died. It certainly could have simply been old age as that he was 80 years old. However in 1844 nine persons died in LaFayette township of the “black tongue”, the name for the often fatal effects of a deficiency of the vitamin niacin, which occurred anywhere that diets consisted almost entirely of corn. It was thought to be contagious. If he was living mainly on a diet of corn gruel in his old age he certainly could have died from lack of vitamins.

A tombstone in the Maple Ridge Cemetery in Hollis Township states that Enoch Jones died 10 May 1844 at the age of 80. He is buried near William Jones whose own marker says he was died in 1861. This adds weight to the fact that Enoch was living with his son William Jones.

The Maple Ridge Cemetery is, by far, the largest of the five documented cemeteries in Hollis Township. It is located close to the LaMarsh Baptist Church near the corner of Maple Ridge and Harkers Corners roads. There is no marker for Nancy Addy Jones in the cemetery to reveal when she died. Any family records of her death has long disappeared. She is not located in the 1840 Census as living within the household of any of her children or grandchildren in Peoria County, Illinois. Therefore she was probably died after 1836 and before the 1840 census was taken. Also she is not mentioned as an heir of Enoch Jones in the 8 September 1845 estate settlement which she would have if still alive.

Enoch Jones’ son Jehu Paten Jones died 10 months after his father after moving to Marion County, Iowa. However there is a probate record for him in Peoria County, Illinois, which has not been researched, which suggest he probably still had property there. He died 1 March 1845 at Knoxville, Marion, Iowa. His widow and children are listed in the 1850 Census of Marion County, Iowa dated 13 September 1850. This census shows that Marion County Iowa was sparsely settled with about 770 households listed. Anna Jones was head of house hold number 540 and listed as age 47 [She was born 7 January 1801 in Pennsylvania] born in Ohio. She was living on a farm worth $700. In her household was George Jones age 19 [1831] born in Ohio, farmer, William Jones age 15 [1835] born in Ohio, Mary Ann Jones age 10 [1840] born in Illinois. Anna Maple Jones died 12 July 1865 in Marion County, Iowa, a widow for 20 years.

Enumerated next to Anna Maple Jones at household 541 was Enoch Jones’ grandson John Jones age 27 [1823] born in Ohio. He was a carpenter with property worth $1000. Within this household was Mary Ann Jones age 26 [1824] born in Ohio, Abraham Jones age 6 months [March 1850] and Luther Ward age 35 [1815] born in Massachusetts and a laborer.

Enoch Jones grandson son Isaac Jones was listed as household 539 age 21 [1829] born in Ohio and a farmer with $280 worth of property. In his household was Mary J [Booth] age 20 [1830] born in North Carolina.

A probate record No. 676 is listed for Enoch Jones in Peoria County, Illinois. It is filed with William H. Fesseden, the Probate Justice of the Peace. It states: We the undersigned do hereby request you to grant letters of administration to William Martin on the estate of Enoch Jones deceased late of LaFayette present of Peoria County Illinois Sept 8th 1845. This request is further signed by Albert G. Powell, Abraham Maple, James Jones, Isaac Maple & William Jones. As that this document states “late of LaFayette” it can be certain that Enoch Jones died in Peoria County some 860 miles from where he was born in New Jersey.

Of interest in Enoch's probate is the wording used in the first document to get the probate started. It stated he had property in Illinois...... and this is usually the phrasing used to indicate that a deceased person owned real property (land) at the time of his death. A thorough search in Peoria County deeds however does not show any land being owned by Enoch so it may have just included personal property. If he owned land possibly it was in another county in Illinois.

Interestingly Jesse Jones, John Jones, or the heirs of Jehu Paten Jones who died 1845 are not included in the request to administer this property of their late father Enoch Jones. Perhaps they weren’t in the county in 1845 but were in perhaps in Iowa.

These five men, mentioned in the probate request from 1845, all had an interest in Enoch's estate. Albert Gallup Powell had married Eliza Jones six months after the death of her father. They were married 15 October 1844 in Hollis Twp, Peoria County, Illinois. Albert G Powell was a son of William Powell and Mary Davis and was a brother in law to James Jones, Eliza Jones’ older brother who had married Emily Ellen Powell in 1837. He was a stock raiser in Hollis Township and county assessor at one point. Albert Powell was born 27 August 1809 in Coshocton, Ohio, and died 30 April 1862 in Hollis Twp, Peoria County, Illinois. Enoch’s daughter Eliza Jones She died 11 September 1899 in Hollis Twp, Peoria County, Illinois, the last of Enoch and Nancy Addy’s children to pass away.

            The 1850 Census of Peoria County lists Albert G Powell five households away from his brother in law James Jones. He says he’s 31 years old [1819] born in Ohio and a carpenter by occupation. He has a real estate worth $1000. Within his house hold is Eliza [Jones] Powell age 36 [1814] born in Ohio, Emily Powell age 3 [1847] born in Illinois and Smith Powell age 1 [1849] born in Illinois.

Abram Maple was listed in the 1850 Census as living next to his brother Isaac Maple in Peoria County Illinois. His age is given as 39 [1811] born in Ohio. He is a farmer and quite wealthy comparatively with real estate worth $2,400. Within his household is Ruhama [Addy cousin of his first wife Charlotte Jones] age 38 [1812] born in Ohio, Mary Maple [daughter of Charlotte Jones] age 16 [1834] born in Ohio, Matilda Maple age 12 [1838] born in Ohio, Charlotte Maple age 10 [1840] born in Illinois. Sarah Maple age 9 [1841] born in Illinois, Rebecca Maple age 6 [1844] born in Illinois, Eliza E Maple age 2 [1848], and Oliver Fuller age 16 [1834] farmer.

Abraham Maple and Isaac Maple were brothers and sons in law to Enoch Jones as they were married to Jones women which provided them a legal interest in Enoch's estate. Abraham Maple was the widow of Charlotte Jones who was deceased by 1835, but by whom Abraham had a daughter named Mary who would be Abraham's interest in the estate. Isaac Maple was married to Polly Jones, Charlotte’s sister. James and William Jones as signers on the administration request were the sons of Enoch.

Isaac Maple was listed in the 1850 Census as living next to his brother Abraham Maple in Peoria County Illinois. His age is given as 46 [1804] and born in Ohio. Of all of Enoch Jones’ sons and sons on law, Isaac Maple was the wealthiest with $5,700 worth of real estate. He was listed as a farmer and within his household was Mary [Polly Jones] Maple age 44 [1806] born in Ohio, Abram Maple age 21 [1829] born in Ohio, Isaac Maples age 18 [1832] born in Ohio, Eliza Jones age 18 [1832] born in Ohio, Jehu Maple age 15 [1835] born in Ohio, Ruhama Maple age 10 [1840] born in Illinois, Albert Maple age 7 [1843] born in Illinois, Mary Maple age 4 [1846] born in Illinois, Emily Maple age 1 [1849] born in Illinois. Mary "Polly" Jones Maple daughter Enoch of died 25 November 1872 in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois. She was member of Lamarsh Bapist Church and buried in Maple Ridge, Peoria County, Illinois.

The Jones brothers were enumerated 18 November in the 1850 Census of Peoria County, Illinois. At household number 2,890 was James Jones. Next to him at household number 2,891 was his brother William Jones. Next to him was John Jones at 2892 and next to John was Jesse Jones at household number 2893.

James Jones age 46 [1804] born in Ohio a farmer by occupation with $1,600 worth of real estate. Within James’ household was Emily [Powell] Jones age 20 [1830] born in Ohio, Mary Jones age 12 [1838] born in Illinois, Eliza Jones age 8 [1842] born in Illinois, Jehu Jones age 6 [1844] born in Illinois, Caroline Jones age 4 [1846] born in Illinois, Rachel Williams age 17 [1833]. James Jones married Emily Ellen Powell 5 September 1837 in Peoria County, Illinois. She was the daughter of William Powell and Mary Davis and born circa 1820 in Guernsey County, Ohio and sister to Albert G Powell.

William Jones was household number 2891 between his brothers James and Jesse’s farms. He states his age as 52 [1798] born in Ohio and farming property worth $900. He is the head of a house hold that included the following individuals, Mary Jones age 25 [1825] born in Ohio, Harriett Jones age 7 [1843] born in Illinois, George Jones age 5 [1845] born in Illinois, Enoch Jones age 3 [1847] born Illinois, Elizabeth Jones age 2 [1848] Illinois, Lewis Jones age 1 [1849] born in Illinois, Mary S Goodwin age 60 [1790] and Alexander Jones age 9 [1841] William Jones wife Mary Goodwin died April 1852 in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois. William died 11 February 1861 in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois.

John Jones is listed as household number 2892 and within the house hold is just he and Mary Jones. He is age 26 [1824] born in Ohio and was a farmer with a small farm worth $480. Mary was listed as 20 years old [1830]. He probably is Jesse Jones oldest son.

Jesse Jones the eldest son of Enoch and Nancy Addy Jones is listed as household number 2893. His age is given as 54 [1796] born in Pennsylvania. Jesse Jones was a farmer with property worth $700. In his household were Elizabeth [Marlatt] Jones age 45 [1805] born in Virginia, William Jones age 23 [1827] born Ohio and farming, James Jones age 20 [1830] born in Ohio farming, Mary A Jones age 16 [1834] born in Ohio, Jesse Jones age 15 [1835] born in Ohio farming. Jesse Jones son of Enoch died 12 April 1869 in Hollis, Peoria County, Illinois.

The nephews and nieces of Enoch Jones, children of his brother Malachi were scattered after the death of their father and mother. Some moved away to Peoria County, Illinois while others stayed in Coshocton County, Ohio. Many moved on to Iowa.

Elias Jones, died 3 May 1845, in Peoria County, Illinois age 35 years. William Jones, son of Malachi died 13 Feb 1860, Crawford, Illinois. James Jones son of Malachi died 19 Feb 1862, Benton, Iowa. David Jones died 20 Feb 1864, Clark, Illinois. John Jones son of Malachi died 12 February 1868 in Hollis Twp, Peoria County, Illinois. Hugh Jones son of Malachi died 22 Mar 1878, Peoria County, Illinois age 72. Martha Jones daughter of Malachi died 18 Aug 1880, Linton, Coshocton County, Ohio. 1890 Malachi Jones, son of Malachi died 06 Feb 1890, Oxford, Coshocton County, Ohio

The 1880 Census of Haddam, Washington County, Kansas show that John Jones was living there age 64 [1816] born in Ohio. He gave Maryland as the birthplace of his father and Virginia was that of his mother so he evidently knew nothing of their Delaware roots. He was a farmer His wife Mary Maple Jones age was given as 65 [1815] and his son still living at home John Jay Jones was age 29 years old and a Lawyer. John Jones died 18 August 1884 in Washington County, Kansas nearly 40 years after his older brother Jehu. His tombstone Inscription reads: Our Father John Jones Died Aug 18, 1884 Aged 69 Years Nor pain nor grief nor Anxious care awaits the peaceful sleeper here. He is buried in the Hickory Grove Cemetery in Haddam

Children of Enoch Jones and Nancy Addy

Jesse Jones

Birth 21 December 1795 Harpers Ferry, Berkeley [Jefferson] Virginia

Death 12 April 1869 Hollis Township, Peoria, Illinois,

Married Elizabeth Marlett 22 February 1823 Guernsey County, Ohio,

Jehu Paten Jones

Birth 1 January 1797 Harper's Ferry. Berkeley [ Jefferson],  Virginia

Death 1 March 1845 Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa

Married 1^st wife name unknown circa 1821

Married Anna Maple 08 July 1828 Guernsey County, Ohio

William Jones

Birth December 1799 Harpers Ferry, Berkeley, [Jefferson] Virginia,

Death 13 February 1860 Mapleton, Peoria County, Illinois,

Married Mary Goodwin 17 November 1842  Peoria County, Illinois.

Mary "Polly" Jones

Birth 27 July 1803 Harpers Ferry, Jefferson, Virginia,

Death 25 November 1872  Mapleton, Hollis Township, Peoria County, Illinois,

Married Isaac Maple 20 April 1825 Guernsey County, Ohio

James Jones

Birth 1808 Harpers Ferry, Jefferson, Virginia,

Death 12 February 1868 Mapleton, Hollis Township, Peoria County, Illinois,

Married Emily Powell 5 September 1837 Peoria County, Illinois,

Eliza Jones

Birth 27 August 1809 Coshocton County, Ohio

Death 30 April 1862 Mapleton, Hollis Township, Peoria County, Illinois,

Married Albert Gallup Powell 15 Oct 1844 Hollis Township, Peoria, Illinois,

Mary Charlotte Jones

Birth 1 February 1811 Coshocton County, Ohio

Death 1834 Peoria County, Illinois.

Married Abraham Maple 20 Oct 1831 Guernsey County, Ohio

John Jones

Birth 1814  Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, USA

Death 14 August 1884  Washington County, Kansas

Married Mary “Polly” Maple 10 Mar 1840  Peoria County, Illinois,