A.H. Jones, 1847-1922 (left)
& Brother,
Samuel Tate Jones, 1830-1918
Not much in the way of data has been found on Samuel Tate Jones to date other than he did raise his family in Harrison, Arkansas up until his death in 1918. Samuel is found in the census of Harrison, Arkansas in July of 1870 and judging from the birth places of his children he may have had Southern sympathies for one child born in Tennessee just before the Civil War broke out with the next child born in Georgia two years after the war ended. Not really knowing the exact circumstances it is possible he returned home to Georgia right after the war to help care for his Father and his sister Elizabeth and her fatherless children. He and his family were in Georgia in 1867 for the birth of a daughter but moved on to Harrison sometime in the next three years.
His brother, Alfred Hines and his sister Elizabeth were still living with their father in Georgia for that same census year. Their Father Samuel died in the latter part of 1870 and it is assumed that the two Georgia siblings set out for Arkansas shortly after the death. Sister Elizabeth settled in Conway, Arkansas on land left to her by her dead husbands family. Alfred Hines settled in Harrison some hundred miles to the north where brother Samuel was already established as a farmer.
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