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Name: Samuel Porter Jones ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}
Sex: M
Birth: 20 DEC 1887 in Cottonwood, Alabama ^{1 2 3 4 5}
Death: 13 JAN 1963 in Lakeland, Florida
Residence:
1. 1900 in Midland, Dale, Alabama. ¹
1. 1920 in Decatur, Morgan, Alabama. ³
1. 1920 in Kinsey, Houston, Alabama. ⁸
1. 1930 in Lakeland, Polk, Florida. ^{3 4 5 6 7}
1. 1934 in Lakeland, Florida, USA. ⁶
1. 1 APR 1940 in Lakeland, Polk, Florida, United States. ²
1. 1942 in Lakeland, Florida, USA. ⁶
Person Id: I34
Tree Id: 615095

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Parents

Father:

Bethel Elbert Jones: Birth: APR 1846 in Alabama. Death: 25 NOV 1916 in Columbus, Georgia

Mother:

Sarah "Sallie" Martha Adams: Birth: FEB 1849 in Thomas County, Georgia. Death: AFT 1929

Family
Marriage:

Married: Mary Gladys "Gladys" Hobby at Marriage may be 1910 or 1911 in Cottonwood, Alabama.
Mary Gladys "Gladys" Hobby: Birth: 29 OCT 1892 in Houston or Henry Couty - Southern Alabama. Death: 30 JUL 1951 in Lakeland , Fla.

Children:

Agnes Lorraine Jones: Birth: 15 MAR 1912. Death: 1964 in Ocala, Florida
Donzelle Otis Jones: Birth: 26 FEB 1915. Death: 1973 in Lakeland, Florida
Zada Naomi Jones: Birth: 3 FEB 1918. Death: 1971 in Annandale, Virginia
Flora Nell Jones: Birth: 2 JUN 1926 in Lakeland, Florida. Death: 12 JAN 2007 in Ocala, Florida
Betty Faye Jones: Birth: 24 MAY 1930. Death: 1972 in Lakeland, Florida

Sources

1.	Title: 1900 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Midland, Dale, Alabama; Roll: T623_31077_4119979; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 0065; FHL microfilm: 1240012. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
2.	Title: 1940 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Lakeland, Polk, Florida; Roll: T627_612; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 53-23. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
3.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Decatur, Morgan, Alabama; Roll: T625_32; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 153; Image: 293. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
4.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Cedarville, Hale, Alabama; Roll: T625_19; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 48; Image: 879. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
5.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Mount Andrew, Barbour, Alabama; Roll: T625_2; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 4; Image: 1159. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
6.	Title: U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta) Page: Database online. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
7.	Title: 1930 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Lakeland, Polk, Florida; Roll: 331; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 26; Image: 122.0; FHL microfilm: 2340066. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
8.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Kinsey, Houston, Alabama; Roll: T625_17; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 150; Image: 883. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
9.	Source: Footnote: Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 6, Social Securi

Notes

Note: [Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 6, Social Security Death Index: U.S., Date of Import: Mar 31, 2002, Internal Ref. #1.111.6.129227.107]
Individual: Jones, Sam Social Security #: 267-16-7014 Issued in: Florida
Birth date: Dec 20, 1887 Death date: Jan 1963
Residence code: Florida
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Flora Nell Jones' recollections of her father, Samuel Porter Jones as given the Wayne Nielsen:
Sam Jones' first job was a school teacher. He was also a Methodist preacher, truck farmer, and a "news butch" on the train - he would sell sandwiches that his wife Gladys and daughters would make at home. He would be gone three days and would come home with "mountains" of coins. We would have to count it. He also worked as a carpenter during WWII in the Tampa Shipyard. As an adult, he went to Florida Southern College (in the 1920s).
My father stated that his cousin was the founder of Jones University. Also, my mother would often reference his "Indian blood".
My father worked all of the time - he was a hard worker. He loved to write. He wrote a movie script and sent it to California. It was a religious theme about the end of the world.
My father was a Methodist. He was the preacher of the Myrtle Street Methodist Church. He was a spiritual man and had worship with his children every evening. We had a big family bible that burned in a house fire in 1949.
He had a sense of humor. He would sing around the house. He wore size 30X30 pants. He loved children and would tell them stories and explain things to them. He kept dynamite hidden (buried) in a quart jar. He loved to drink alcoholic beverages, but he was not a "drunkard". His drinking was never accepted in his family.
He was a writer - he wrote reams of paper. He wrote in the nursing home as well. He loved to write. He was a very verbal person. He was very articulate; was a stickler for proper grammar and vocabulary. He was a bold man - assertive and opinionated - a man of passion. He was racially biased and got "wound up" about religion and politics.
After I left my first husband James, he (James) came to my father's house and would not leave. My father used a pocket knife and sliced James twice.
In his final days he "dwindled away". He would occasionally get lost. He did not have alsheimers.
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From Ann Hegger <fahegger@yahoo.com> 1/2006
Have you ever heard any stories about a Creek Indian ancestor? I heard that story many times, but never anything concrete. Also heard stories that we were descendants of President John Quincy Adams???
Three of my mother's sisters had black hair and brown eyes. My mother had brownish-red hair and brown eyes and I have brown eyes and brown hair. (I always thought the brown hair came from the Miller side of the family.) I visited the Creek Indian Nation musuem in Oklahoma several years ago to try to find out any information I could, but without a name it was impossible. My aunt tried to track the Indian ancestry many years ago, but didn't have any luck. She hired a genealogist to research it for her, but she couldn't find anything for lack of more information.

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