Hi Charlie,
I posted the following reply to your post on the 3rd but it never got through, so posting it again...
Thank you very much for sharing the fruits of your labours in the long grass! Here's what I can add to the inscriptions;
Robert Patton Jones married Eliza Empson in 1852 so the Shepard F Jones sharing the grave with Robert's father could be their son (ba1859?) This would fit a gap between children I know of from a handwritten family tree I inherited from my father but this Shepard doesn't appear on it? Not always completely accurate I know (there are other discrepancies on it.) Only ordering the death certificate would solve the mystery I suppose, as his death is registered in Shillelagh in 1876.
The other occupant of the grave is Ellen Anne Jones - both her Aug 1881 burial record and that of Robert P Jones are online via
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie Her estimated birth year of 1864/5 could make her a daughter of Robert & Eliza but again she doesn't appear on the family tree but there is a baptism for a daughter named Martha in May 1865? (see FamilySearch.org for named parents.) I couldn't find a reliable entry in the death indexes for her though that matched with an August burial?
I can't add anything to what you found on the other 2 headstones, but the name Disney did crop up in a message to me from GSJ and he definitely has land records linked to Newtown Saunders - so he may see this and reply too.
The Francis Jones may have been a contemporary/relation of Shepard Jones senior as that name appears above his in a list of Carlow voters in 1837 (see http:://www.igp-web/Carlow) and I found someone named Francis Jones listed as a cloth dealer there in Pigot's 1824 directory.
The only online parish records I could find for Hacketstown only go back as far as 1878 it appears - any ideas if earlier ones exist in Carlow archives?
I'm sure that there are definite links between all these Jones's but as ever with such a common surname it's so difficult to be sure unless you reconstruct all the families!
Do let me know if you find any more!
RE: Headstone pictures - thank you very much, these are all ancestors of mine, so lovely to see them.
I'll need to have a bit more of a think about the Dora Jones you found as the one I found was for 1873 (see earlier posts)
Thanks