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In Memory, Ray Dee Jones Sr.

Dear Dad,

Wanted you to know, I have been chasing your Dad's family, with a modest amount of success.

The family has many hundreds of interesting tales. The most fun has been meeting my second  and your second and third cousins, etc..

My family, has met  one of your Uncle Monty's son's. We shared a B B Que at Don's  one year..
He also met your brother,  I have shared many conversation's, with other grandchildren of Great Uncle Monte.

We have met kin from Great Uncle Walter, an older brother, of Grandad's, Having conversed  with,
Down line kin of Great Aubt Nora,sharing pctures and information.

We only have one sibling we have not communicated with kin of yet,

We met down line from Great Great Uncle George, Great Grandad Calvin's older brother.

We are missing who Noyes Jones Grandfather is. We found Noyes Jones's father. He was a Noel Jones, Mother was a Susanah.

While all this happened, other things happened too.  I pray all is well with you.  You are deeply missed, and loved to.  Oh, Did Mom kick your butt, like she said she was going to for leaving her behind?  May you walk with the Angel's now and always.

Deceased 12 Dec 1995


Teague Jones is our beginning here, his father was a ship's captain of some fame, as was his father.

Jones, Mass, Rhode Island, New York, Illinois, Iowa, etc.

Ever since the ships sailed westward with people, people have been hunting for their kin.

Yes,  probably since the start of migration and flight, this has surely been going on.

We keep learning we are older than we think.  We are surely more inter linked long ago than what our mind determines.

Our Jones came to American soil fairly early.  He fought the Narragansett Indians in the mid 1600's,
I recall it to be about 1648.

Family lore has him born about the time of the Mayflower's landing. That has yet to be proven.
Many other things have been exciting to learn and confirm.

Teague lived a harsh life at the time, it seems he was at odds with the Puritan's. more than not. Yet, later he is  exonerated  and given status in the court.


His son obviously,  had decided this system wasn't to their liking, moving to Rhode Island.  We learned of  at least one sister, marrying a Nickerson,(proven), and two brothers, Working on a very potential third brother.

One son moved north to what some say became Maine.  At this time, it was just the northern part of
Mass. I have not proven this yet, there is much evidence to imply it true.

One son marries what appears to be Teague's best friend's daughter.  This is the line we descend from.

Richard Berry and wife Alice Berry, had children, he is from England.  Believing his marriage took place in Mass, due to a couple of court reports.

Did you realize that the Puritan's did not like men living together?  Teague and Richard were brought up in court on charges because they roomed together.  This is all in the Town Meeting Minutes.  I made copies. Their marriages surely happened after this incident.  

Josiah and wife moved to Rhode Island.  The family stayed their until mid,early 1700's. Many members stayed on and didn't move.  They were their near a hundred years, when Josiah's grandson
moved to Dutchess County, New York, then up to Albany County, when split much of the family was then in the Rensselaer Count area.  Some kin in Saratoga  and Washington County, suspecting some stayed in Dutchess Co. also.

See we are only up to 1800, now and since 1630's or before there are many resident changes.

Our line stayed here in Rensselaer County, until after the 1850 Census, others still live here today.

We moved to Nunda, Illinois by 1860.  My Great Grand Father served in the Civil War from this residence.  Loosing a brother at his side in Tennessee, almost losing his life also,

Family then moved to Chickasaw Co. Iowa, region. Some family is still in this region, though my Grandfather moved on to Wyoming after marriage.  His children being raised there.


Being born in Wyoming,  moving  to California when small but trips home every few years to see all the family. Family still in Iowa, Minn, AZ, OR., Colorado, Wyoming,
Washinton, GA, distant kin in New York, AZ, Canada,  GA,  OH, and probably every state in USA.

Ray Dee jones, Sr.'s Descendants son of Carl F. Jones

Carl  and Ida (Victoria Mae) Foulk Jones, had their first child, named Ray, in Waterloo, Iowa area near Washburn.  Her family home was Washburn, Ia.

All the other children were born in Wyoming, after 1914.

Ray  and wife Dorothy  left a legacy of  four  children and  twelve direct grandchildren.  There is also, step grandchildren, of these I think the count is nine.  They are all counted as family.

There are many in the younger generations coming up.

Ray and Dorothy Hoffman Jones, married in Wheatland, Wyoming, in 1938, their first child born in 1940 in Wyoming, the rest in California.

Ray  worked on a cattle ranch since a young boy, later marrying still doing ranch work.  Later they moved to Greybull,Wyoming as a ranch hand on the Diamond Tail Ranch, for Howard Flitner. A ranch that still exists today, partially turned into a Recreational Guest Ranch.  You can book a vacation there and ride horses and be exposed to ranch life.

Ray and Dorothy, later moved to Petaluma, Ca. to assist his sister's husband on very large Dairy Ranch.  The War had taken  the workers away.  Ollimac Dairy was well known in it's day.  It now
is an Olive Ranch.  A daughter was born here.

After the War and workers came home, Ray moved to another dairy closer to Petaluma.  Here he fought a bad fire threatening the ranch, had mumps and  spent time in the hospital and had another child.

By mid 1948, the family went looking for a home, after many queries, they found home in Sonoma County, Valley Ford, Ca. Right behind the local school grounds was home.  The barn was built in 1854 carved in the hand hewn boards.  The house was built  later in stages.

Ray remodeled the home over the years, changing the stairs and making the attic  a large bedroom for  
three.  Added a large bedroom and back porch area for working space.  Revitalized the added on bedroom,near the large rock and small milk barn,   Later he built a Grade A dairy barn, that was burnt
by a wildfire, the day before final inspection.  He lost all outbuildings but the 1854 barn, near the road, and by the valiant effort of neighbors and Volunteer Firemen, they saved the house.

He added a fireplace for heat in 1958,  in ten years he had made many improvements.  The fire was in
1966.  We heard it was children in the hay field.  You could still once in a while pick up a piece of wood or turn the dirt and see ash from the fire.

He raised four children and assisted in the raising of his grandchildren, many times over.  He even took in other children to help get them on their feet.

He was married almost 58  years at the time of passing.

He found his Father after many years of hunting for him.  He worked hard to keep his siblings in touch with each other and create a sense of family.  Just ask some of his nephews and nieces.

Family Interests Medical

Have you tracked your medical background?  Have you considered  a DNA Test?

Does your family have Diabetes in the back ground?  What about  breathing problems?

We recently lost a very forward medical professional, that remarked if we had shared our medical information with our providers, many of today's ailments would not exist.

Dr. Koop, was an exceptional human in the medical field.

Our family has some interesting traits,  funky fingers, webbed toes, a toe longer than the other toes.

Learning this when I saw babies born in our family, I  have been able to locate kin back to 1720.

How you ask?   Observing the traits known to exist, really helped us find more  family.

We shake hands, we wear sandals, the areas I would be watching is open to the eye.


Remember we have brown, blue, green,hazel, flecked colored eyes.  We inherited these features from
Our ancestors.  What about cow licks in the hair, extra curly hair, very straight hair, going bald young,very thin hair,or extra thick course hair?

What about freckles?  The color of our skin is inherited.  How does this affect our health?
Believe me, cancer pushes it's face more in some than others, melatonin In the skin protects  one from sunburn damage partially.  We inherit our skin color also.

If you could prevent a family from having some inherited medical problems, why wouldn't you step up and help prevent future ailments?

Heart attacks,  arthritis,  cancer,  and many other ailments we could keep better track of for our children and grandchildren not to suffer them.

Seriously,  consider sharing at least within your family .

.Thinking of all those that could attend CeCe Moore's talk today.  I hope they took advantage of it.

Jones-Hoffman How my Parents met.

Jones-Hoffman, How My Parents Met, Near Wheatland, Wyoming

My parents lived in the country, not in town.  There were irrigation ditches and fields to work and
animals and working people in the community.

Mothers's family had a huge garden and it was tomato picking and processing time. Her father was out in the fields, many acres of fields and was irrigating the fields. This was all done manually in the 30's and before. His helper was a young man who worked on the Cattle ranch next door, (over the hill). Everyone took turns working the ditches.

According to Dad, he had come by the home place of Mom's (Dorothy)  many times and was most impressed with this young brunette each time he saw her out working with her Mom or Dad.

Finally, Grandad invited Dad to come meet the family after the had completed their shift for changing the water channels in the ditches.

Grandma Hoffman,  & her daughters Mae, Marie, Ruth and Dorothy were picking and preparing tomatoes to can.  There were large tubs of tomatoes to be washed and a large tub already washed.

Apparently, Aunt Marie wanted to make an impression on my future Father, for he said this is what happened.  Aunt Marie stood up and made an unpleasant comment to my future Mom.  Mom ignored her and then Aunt Marie said," I am going to wash your face in tomato Dorothy."  In the end, Mom thoroughly washed Aunt Marie's face and told her to leave her alone.  Dad said, he wished he would have had a camera, both girls were sent to the house to clean up and Grandma was furious with her girls. Worse they had wasted tomatoes that family could have eaten.

After that incident, Dad came by after work to visit with her parents and visit with the family.
She was only 16 at the time so he waited almost a  year before he asked to take her out.

She said she always felt homely and not pretty and was amazed that Dad would want to take her on a date. Another year went by and then they were  married. Many more stories  I can tell of their courtship. It shaped how their marriage went and how the family was raised. Many great stories such as, of his bringing his girl home 15 minutes late, meeting her Mom at the door, picking her up and dancing her around the room to tell her how much he liked her and loved her daughter.  Mom did not get in trouble for being 15 minutes late. Grandma was 4' 8" and Dad was 5'10+. Grandma weighed about 85 lbs. and Dad about 170. lbs.

The twinkle in my parents eyes when they told all these great stories was absolutely shining.

Photo Grandma Foulk JONES, cousins Morelli & I.

Victoria Mae (IDA) Foulk JONES later Archer with her grandchildren at that time. About 1943 at Ollimac Diary, Petaluma, CA Bob, Grandma, myself in front and Don up the stairs. My outfit had been sent by my Uncle from Hawaii. I still have it.




Dad (Ray Dee Jones) Aunt Bethel Jones Cooper, Uncle Gerald O Jones
San Diego Zoo, about 1993.


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Jennie JONES daughter of Noyes and Susan Jones

Jennie Jones was born in New York, Rensselaer Co. area, probably in Petersburg with the rest of the kin.  She was born 1847 according to records I received from cousin in Iowa.  She died supposedly 28 Feb 1874  age 27, in Oak Park, Ill.  She is buried in the Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, Ill.


She was married to Fred Apel.  Having spent a week scouring the census for  more accurate information very little has come up.

Family story has her married at Crystal Lake, Ill. 1864 .  She had two girls: Minnie and Francis Elizabeth.

Minnie was born 9 Dec.  1866, Chicago, ILL area.
Minnie died 4 Aug 1944 Huron, South Dakota. buried Riverside Cemetery.

She had a child: Frances Agnes.   No record of last name.


Francis Elizabeth married Al Williams.

Data here runs together:   5 Aug 1869 born,  in Chicago, Ill. Believe this applies to Francis due to sister's birth date. Died in Evanston, Ill.
Children were: Ruth died in infancy,  Mildred whom married  George Earle McCurd.

I would love to learn more about this family's descendants, please.  Any pictures of this family out there anywhere?

When  more is learned  will add  to this information.