William Humphrey Jones - Sorting out the William Humphrey Jones children

Started by Dan Cornett on Thursday, February 11, 2016
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It looks like William Humphrey Jones has gotten an extra wife and children.

He was definitely married to Mary Lucy Harris (Lucy Jones).
Three children by Mary Lucy are noted on her FindAGrave memorial:
Mosias (Mosias Jones)
Elizabeth (Elizabeth Hern)
Richard (Richard H. Jones)
... and their dates are consistent with Mary Lucy's age at their births.

However, many of the other William Humphrey children could not be Mary Lucy's children.

Nor, if the marriage to sister Mary Sarah Harris (Sarah Jones) is in error (as it may be, since she died before the claimed marriage date with William Humphrey), would they be children of Mary Sarah & her husband James Martin.

So, I think the marriage of Mary Sarah to William Humprhey should be removed.

Where do all those other Jones children belong?

(Probably to another William & Mary or two or three which got smurged in over time.)

Levi H. Jones (Levi H. Jones) looks like a child of one such mis-merge ... parents showing as William George Jones & another Mary Harris.

I'll split him off and see how many siblings come with him.

Levi's mother may be a Lucy Harris ... hence confusion with Mary Lucy.

Once I found a well-established line where Levi belonged (a Lucy Harris & William Thomas Jones), things fell into place.

It seems that FindAGrave is wrong about Elizabeth Hern ... she belongs as a sibling of Levi, not a daughter of Mary Lucy Harris.

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