James Harvey Jones & Mary Virginia Graves

The Jones and Willhite lines have much of the same history. Below are pictures of the James Harvey Jones family. Also below are three links to the 3 children who married children of Smith Willhite.

Jones Family Picture Taken Around 1900

Willhite - Jones Family Picture Taken between 1892 to 1900

This picture may be because of the marriage between William H. Jones and Emma Willhite (positioned prominently in the center between both parents), that was in December 1892.

3) James Harvey Jones
4) Mary Virginia (Graves) Jones
7) William H. Jones
8 Emma (Willhite) Jones
11) Jesse A. Jones
12) Olive (?) Jones

1) Minnie Jones*
2) James A. Jones
3) Doc Wilbur Jones (Married Jessie Pearl Willhite)
4) William H. Jones (Married Emma Willhite)
5) Rosa Bell Jones (Married Lewis Franklin Willhite)
6) Ida Jones*
7) Flossie Beatrice Jones
8) James Harvey Jones
9) Frank Jones
10) Mary Virginia (Graves) Jones
11) Fanny Brooks Jones*

Three girls with an * after their name means they could be mixed up

Mary Virginia Graves

Nov. 1910 Toronto Republican

Sisters: Minnie Nelson, Ida Beardsley, Flossie Barker, Rosa Willhite

Frank and Jennie Jones

Jennie Jones (wife of Frank Jones) and daughter

Flossie (Jones) Barker

Lewis Frank Willhite & Charles Beardsley

Lavern Barker, son of Flossie Jones & Claude Barker

Son of James Harvey Jones: John B. Jones 1884-1866

James Harvey and Mary Virginia in the Toronto Cemetery

Ida Jones, Flossie Jones and friends

Ida Jones & Charley Beardsley

Parents of Charley Beardsley in the Toronto Cemetery

James Harvey Jones Obituary
From the Toronto Republican January 7, 1904

The deceased was born in Lee County West Virginia, in 1836 and was 67 years old at time of death. In 1854, at the age of 18 years, he and his parents moved to Jackson County, MO., where his father died one year later. From Missouri, he moved to Johnson County, Kansas. Later he settled on the Verdegris and for a short time lived in Fall River. Here in 1867 he was married to Mary B. Graves. This union was blessed with thirteen children, nine of whom are now living, four boys and five girls. From 1868 to 1870 he was engaged in the mercantile business at Coyville. From Coyville he moved to a farm in Greenwood County. This was his home for 33 years, during all of which time he was a continual tax payer, with his family lived a happy and prosperous life and from his persistent labors had fashioned a beautiful country home on his farm near Toronto. In 1896 together with his wife professed Christianity and lived a faithful Christian life as a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He moved to Iola in September this year and passed away in his Iola home last week.

The funeral services of J. H. Jones, who died at Lola last week were held at the Methodist church Thursday afternoon and were largely attended. Services at the church were conducted by Rev. Cargay and those at the grave in charge of the Masonic Lodge of which Mr. Jones had for 42 years been a member.

In 2020, I was sent several files full of Jones family history. Most of the documents I put on my Ancestry.com account which is available to view by anyone who uses Ancestry.com. The images that came with the files I have put on my website and Ancestry.com.

Photos - James Harvey Jones & Mary Virginia Graves