Re: Elizabeth Wilkerson Jones--Cherokee Old Settler
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Re: Elizabeth Wilkerson Jones--Cherokee Old Settler
Betty Renfroe 8/13/07
Betty: I have long suspected that the Seaborn Jones who settled in the Upper Hurricane Creek area of Madison Co, Al could be someway retated to the Cherokee Jones..My Edwards family are known to have settled in that same area early as 1807 according to the tombstone of Wm Baker (wife Hannah Edwards b 1775NC-married 1801 Jefferson Co, Ky-through KY before settling in Madison Co. Hannah Edwards Baker was the daughter of Henry Edwards, born NC and was 70-80 years old according to the 1830 Madison Co, AL census.. Dawes Roll applications for some of Hannah E Baker's grandchildren, the Pennington's and Couch's, state Hannah was the daughter of Henry and Mary Polly Wilson Edwards.. (possibily a Chief Doublehead/Wilson connection?)..as other known Doublehead children accepted reservations near the Upper Hurrican Valley area..(Giles McAnutly/McNutly and Wm Wilson)..a Thomas Wilson and wife Jane Loy/Loyd also accepted reservation in same area.. I know from research that many of my Edwards and allied families left for the Frog Bayou area of what is now Crawford Co, AR early as 1828..see Ozark Pioneers by David T Buntyon...some returned to Al before permanently settling in AR around 1836... Family tradition states that the origional homesite of the Edwards at the head of Upper Hurricane Creek included the lands entered by one Seaborn Jones at the first land sales of this particuliar land in 1830...A few old cabins have long since fallen and lay in ruins part way up the mountain along the head of Upper Hurricane Creek.. I have been told by Seaborn Jones descendants that Seaborn Jones came in and settled on land-which obviously was "claimed" by some of the Edwards/Baker/allied families. Accordingly Seaborn Jones was "burnt out" several times...but he went on to purchase alot of land in the area, which is still owned by his descendants.. Henry Edwards must have died after the 1830 census..his sons, Jesse and Jonathan Edwards however purchased land in this same area.. An old Jones Cemetery is up behind the still exsisting Jones cabin build about 1841?..Jesse's land was just south of Seaborn Jones'...Hannah Edwards Baker and her husband acquired a large plantation beside Jesse Edwards little 80 acres.. Seaborn eventually had about 22 children by his three wives..most of whom married into Baker/Edwards/Campbell/Hambrick, etc. allied families... I believe researchers show that a William Jones was his father..(Lincoln Co, TN probate records about 1816-see posts by Glayds Shannon.During the Civil War some of Seaborn Jones' sons served the Confederacy, while some went North, and/or served the Union. Those who stayed were told "they might as well sign up, or be hung"..according to what I have been told.. After the war, some of these Jones settled in TX.. A Brown family is also associated with another family of Jones, living a short distance from Seaborn Jones.. Actually one Rebecca Campbell Brown married a George Tannahill Jones ca 1812 Madison Co, AL.. They living along the Mountain Fork Creek area of Madison Co..about a mile from Upper Hurricane Creek Valley.. Another couple of Jones Cemeteries is located along the Mountain Fork Creek Road.. Mountain Fork Creek leads up into the mountains..Dry Creek and King Cove only short distance away.. My feeling is that old Seaborn Jones could be related to the Cherokee Jones..There is also a very old unique cemetery along Dry Creek_coming down out of King Cove into the New Market area.. which has the beautiful boxtombs of hued rock...no names..but most likely several of the Fitch family are buried here.. they too are closely allied with many of the earliest settlers of this area.. A few years ago, I walked up Dry Creek- a branch off Mountain Fork- to this unusual place for a cemetery..Dry Creek is most often dry..yet it is wide enough for a hummer to travel on it's rock bed.. Obviously folks who knew there way around the mountain and the various trails once had the nerve to settle in such a secluded, dark hollow.. The Fitch Family is realted to the Seaborn Jones Family by marriage..descendants still in area.. It's so amazing that descendants of these early allied families still own and occupy much of this Upper Hurricane and Mountain Fork Creek area-especially since the majority of them are known to be of Cherokee heritage. If you google, Wm Brown Miller, Dallas,TX you can see photos of his cabin in TX... If posts regarding him on genforum are true, then, a daughter and grandchild of "Chief Womankiller" are buried at Mount Paran Campground Cemetery in New Market, AL..New Market, Al is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.. During the 1980's, I researched and prepared the wording for the Alabama Historical Markers for the Town of New Market, AL and for Mount Paran Cemetery..A group of several of us dedicated descendants of the early New Market pioneers maintain a non-profit corporation to oversee the preservation of the cemetery. I would love to prove that Chief Womankiller has a daughter who married Wm Brown Miller! It's possible the Wm Brown who died in 1816 was the first person buried at Mount Paran..There are hundreds of unmarked gravesites at this cemetery. Those who were origionally marked with fieldstones have sunken deep into the ground. If you run across any information on the descendants of Chief Womankiller, please let me know! Thanks, Debbie
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Re: Elizabeth Wilkerson Jones--Cherokee Old Settler
Calvin Harkrader 8/16/07