Martha Ann (Belt) Jones (1859 - 1948)

Born 19 Oct 1859 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Tandy Lewis Jones — married 1 Feb 1880 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 16 Mar 1948 at age 88 in Edenwold, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Martha was born in the fall of 1859, to James Belt, a farmer, and Martha Wilkerson.^[1] She married James Tandy Jones, also a farmer, in the winter of 1880.^[2] They had eight known children:^{[3] [4]}

• 1882-1909: Charles Jefferson, m. Hattie Cooper, 1901^[5]
• 1885-1909?: daughter SA, probably Sally Anna, who married Will Pryor, 1902^[6]
• 1888-1969: James William, "Buster", m. 1st unknown ("widowed" on 1910 census); m. 2nd Minnie Burton, 1910 (divorced); m. 3rd Lizzie Gregory, 1926; m. 4th Eleanor Biggs, 1932
• 1891-1936: John B. Wilson, m. Mary Dunn, <1915
• 1894-1974: Flora Elizabeth, m. 1st Bernice Vernon Frederick, 1911; 2nd Samuel Mont Capshaw^[7]
• 1897-1977: Tandy Lewis, m. Josephine Young, 1921
• 1901-1996?: Wavy Irene; m. Lerson Roy Steele^[8]
• 1903-1990?: daughter Pearl (Adell?); m. 1st? a Steele, 2nd? Vernon Hammersley, 3rd? a Keen

She was predeceased by their oldest son, Jeff, who died in 1909 at the age of 26 in a boiler explosion at the saw mill where he and his brothers, Jim and Buster, were working.

Their oldest daughter may also have predeceased her parents. There is a record of a Sally Jones marrying a J.W. Pryor in Sumner, Tennessee in 1902, and a 1909 grave for a Sally Pryor, born 1885, in Dry Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, the same cemetery where James, his parents, and many family members are buried.

James passed away in Nashville, Tennessee in 1931 at the age of 74.^[9] He is buried at Dry Fork Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Sumner County, Tennessee.^[10] His gravestone reads "Precious Pappy." Mattie died on the same day seventeen years later, and is buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville.^{[11] [12]}

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD84-GRZ : 13 March 2021), Martha Bilt in entry for James Bilt, 1870.
2. ↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKH9-FCC5 : 10 March 2021), James Jones and Mattie Belt, 01 Feb 1880; citing Sumner, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 467,486.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSZ6-V6N : accessed 14 March 2021), J T Jones, Civil District 10, Sumner, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 118, sheet 5A, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,601.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGFK-JXN : accessed 14 March 2021), James Jones, Civil District 10, Sumner, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 140, sheet 4A, family 63, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1522; FHL microfilm 1,375,535.
5. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 160832212 for Charles Jefferson Jones.
6. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 42680357 for Sallie Pryor.
7. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 149304022 for Flora Elizabeth Capshaw.
8. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 204350875 for Wavie Steele.
9. ↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSMW-TY6 : 1 March 2021), Mattie Bell Jones in entry for James Tandy Lewis Jones, 16 Mar 1931; Death, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
10. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 42680324 for James Tandy Jones.
11. ↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSR6-MHF : 23 February 2021), Mattie Ann Jones, 16 Mar 1948; Death, Edenwold, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
12. ↑ FindAGrave memorial 126003702 for Mattie Ann Jones.