When Willis Hinton Jones was born in February 1797, in Wake, North Carolina, United States, his father, Tignal Jones II, was 31 and his mother, Margaret "Peggy" Joyce Jeffreys, was 20. He married Mary Holmes Taylor in 1818, in Franklin, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Talladega, Talladega, Alabama, United States in 1850. He died on 16 February 1861, in Henderson, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Henderson City Cemetery, Henderson, Rusk, Republic of Texas.
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"In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow """"rock"""" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the """"rock"""" was a gold nugget."
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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