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June 2004
February 2004

JOHN ROLAND JONES
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BORN: March 12, 1871 in Rabun County, Georgia 8 9 10 11 16 17 19
DIED: April 6, 1936 9 17 19
BURIED: old Liberty Church, Madison, South Carolina JONES, John Roland, b. 12-mar-1871, d. 6-apr-1936 17 19
PARENTS: Licena Watkins and Berryman Jones 8 9 16 19
OCCUPATION: Farmer 9 10 11
MARRIAGE: Elizabeth Idella Cannon (Sep. 1873-191x) in early 1897 9 10 11 17

8 CHILDREN
NAME BORN DIED SPOUSE NUMBER OF CHILDREN NOTES
Connie A. JONES 9 10 11 Oct. 1897 9 10 11 Mr. ?rtain 11 2+ ; Julia 1918; John A. 1919 11
Miles F. JONES 9 10 12 Mar. 1900 9 10 Bernice (1912 AL-) 12 Working in a sawmill in Red Rock, Cobb Co., GA in 1930. 12
Sally A. JONES 10 1902 10
Flora A. JONES 10 1904 10
William F. JONES 10 1909 10
unknown JONES 10 before 1910 10
Raleigh D. JONES 11 1911 11 12 Working in a sawmill in Red Rock, Cobb Co., GA in 1930. 12
Lydia M. JONES 11 1914 11

RESIDENCES: Rabun County, Georgia in 1880 8
Chechero, Rabun County, Georgia in 1900 9 10

Listed as living on "Wolf Creek and Tiger Road" in 1920 census 11

Wolf Creek Community, Rabun County Georgia. 19

"As you go into the Wolf Creek Church yard, there was once a road that went off to the left. A short way down the road was one Jones farm, where William Edward Jones (son of Isom) raised his family. Back across the mountain ridge toward Chechero from this house was the Isom Jones place, known in my childhoos as the Uncle John Roland place. After Isom's death, his wife Licena lived there with her youngest son John Roland and his wife." Grace Gibson, p. 22719

NOTES: His mother, Licenia, and sister, Mary M., were living with him in 1900. 9 His sister, Malisa M. is living with the family in 1910. 10

SOURCES: 8 1880 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
9 1900 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
10 1910 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
11 1920 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
12 1930 Census - Rabun County, Georgia
16 These Men Wore Grey Volume IV, Rabun County, Georgia
17 Wolf Creek Cemetery Inscriptions and Liberty Church Cemetery Inscriptions, Oconee County, South Carolina
19 Rabun County, Georgia and Its People Volume I, Rabun County Historical Society, P.O. Box 921, Clayton, GA 30525