Hello,
I've received excellent advice on this site priorly from very gracious and clever folks. So I figured I'd try this new issue out and see if anyone has any ideas.
We priorly had an obstacle where we couldn't figure out the parents for Charles William Jones (1864-1949). My original rootschat post:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=682166.0.
After some time running down clues and leads, we're feeling really solid that the parents are Erastus Smith Jones (1833-1914) and Mary Guiberson (1833-1874).
I've consolidated all my research on ancestry to these profiles:
Charles:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/67935280/person/30173515063Erastus:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/67935280/person/30212528972Mary:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/67935280/person/30212529487Mary has an extremely interesting family with quite a story! Particularly, her father who was a methodist minister who brought the family (including Erastus and Mary and their children) to Ventura, CA:
https://sites.google.com/site/johnwguiberson/home (a particularly interesting read)
https://sites.google.com/site/johnwguiberson/indexMary and her father have a Dutch/English background (among other things). But Erastus, it would appear has the more traditional Welsh-American background and story -- based on what I've read about the American Welsh waves on the wiki pages, etc. Erastus comes from Pennsylvania to California through Ohio/Iowa.
We have Erastus's death cert. He was born in Pennsylvania. And, we've been talking with people connected to the family who have discovered that he was born/came from the Wilkes-Barre/Luzerne Cty area.
The death cert also reveals a father of Jesse Jones and a mother of Mary ?. And, it does say "?" on the cert. Erastus, also on the cert, was born Oct 1, 1833.
Other things we've figured out -- likely, Erastus had a brother -- David Jones -- who had his own son, Johnathan C. Jones. We've learned some of these things from some other people doing their own independent, intense research on this family.
This is all we know.
Doing familysearch.org and ancestry.com searches do convey some information for Jesse Jones/Mary combos in that area and in PA in general. But, it's not an uncommon name combination. And it's impossible (insofar as we can find) evidence of children with a couple with those names.
We're curious if anyone on rootschat has any expertise on early PA history in that area? Maybe even with the Jones families and/or Welsh methodist communities there?
We'd appreciate any help we can get!
Zak J.
