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Note: May 24, 1840 - November 6, 1914
Brother of Amelia Scott Jones, uncle of Ira Jones Fariss.
He is A. J. Jones in the typed copy of a letter written by GeorgeMcGhee, published by the Dewey County Historical Society. He is AndrewF. Jones in the Xerox of an old Bible page. He is Andrew Thompson Jonesin the Parke Jones papers.
He and his brothers and sisters lived around Giddings in thebeginning. He was born six months after the arrival of his parents inTexas. In the Dewey County Historical Society papers, he is reported to be aCivil War veteran. In the Confederate Records in the State Library inAustin, it is recorded that "Andrew Jones, Private, enlisted July 18,1861 in Capt. James C. Gaither's company, Round Top Guerillas, FayetteCounty, Texas, volunteer Cavalry, Texas State Troops, Brig.Gen. WilliamG. Webb's 22nd Brigade, Texas Volunteers."
In the Parke Jones papers, in a biographical sketch of Judge John RiceJones, reprinted from the Chicago Historical Society Collections, he issaid to be a young Confederate officer for three years who was twice aPrisoner of War.
After the war, he made several cattle drives to Kansas on the ChisholmTrail. He probably scouted some good country in Oklahoma while on thedrives. Another possible scout for the good land is the Bachelor Medlin,who could have been either Jim or Isaac.
Since Andrew's young nephew Andrew Mack Fariss also made two drives toKansas, they probably went together.
One of these cowboys brought home in his saddle bags, by familylegend, an 8-day Seth Thomas clock and a new novelty, a brass kerosenelamp. We believe these were a gift to Amelia Scott Jones Fariss, thesister of one and the mother of the other. The two gifts later had aplace of honor in the I.J. Fariss home. In 1992 the kerosene lamp is inCorpus Christi in the care of Emily Fariss Joekel Carnes. The clock ispossibly with Raymond P. Elledge Jr. in Houston.
We think Uncle Andy then went to Burnet. Probably always trying tomake something with a ranch or some cattle. At one time or other hisnephews, Tom Fariss, Thee Fariss, Eck Fariss, and Oscar Peery Fariss allseem to have been at Burnet.
In 1889, Thee Fariss seems to have made a trip to western Oklahoma tocheck out the results of the Great Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889.
Andrew Jones, Thee Fariss and Oscar Peery Fariss moved to near Goreein Knox County, Texas. Tom and Eck seem to have stayed in Burnet.
Oscar Peery died of typhus fever at age 17 in Knox County in 1891.Thee then APPARENTLY met and married Laura Ann Medlin at Goree. Herparents Hall Medlin and his wife Catherine APPARENTLY lived in KnoxCounty.
Andy, Thee, and about six Medlin's moved with their families toOklahoma in 1893. We are not sure whether (1) Eck moved with them toGoree, or (2) Eck moved to Oklahoma with them in 1893, or (3) Eck wentfrom Burnet to Oklahoma later, in 1895, after a falling-out with Tom.This last case is the most likely of the three.
Sometime between 1902 and 1914, Uncle Andy made several trips backhome to visit in Giddings. He had a white beard. Both Annie FarissBallard (1902) and Aubrey Fariss (1903) remember him.
Andrew T. Jones, age 69, is shown living with Thomas Myers Fariss onBurnet Road, Burnet County in the April 27, 1910 Federal Census.
Andy Jones died of pneumonia November 6, 1914 in Trail, Oklahoma. Heis buried at Trail (New Hope) Cemetery, north of Leedey, between Leedeyand Camargo, Oklahoma, south of the Canadian River, in what was once thethriving "Trail Flats" community, but which is a nothing-place today.
Some people believe that Georgie Elsie Fariss has his old trunk, withdeeds, records, and memorabilia.
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