Thomas Brooks Jones was born on 2 March 1842, in Benoit, Bolivar, Mississippi, United States. He married Sarah Lucy Elizabeth Lemmond on 25 April 1869, in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 1, Coryell, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 23 February 1933, in Coryell, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Blackfoot Cemetery, Gatesville, Coryell, Texas, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Coryell, Texas, United States
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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)’.
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