Ancestor of George W. Morley, 7807 Galena Way, Citrus Heights, CA 95610, who sent me material on the descendants of William Barzilla Jones and his known siblings. It states that little is known about William B. Jones before 1840.
He was supposed to have been born near Knoxville, Tennessee, to parents that died early, and that he was bound to a carpenter, possibly Benjamin Archer. He and his brother appeared in Gallatin County a few years before it became Carroll County.
He married Matilda Butts, daughter of William Butts, and had two tracts with mills near the land of his father-in-law along Buffalo Creek in Carroll County. Matilda died in 1846 and later that year he married Lucinda May.
In Spring of 1869 he took his large family by boat on the Ohio River and Mississippi to St. Louis, then to Kansas City, then went by Union Pacific Railroad to Junction City, Kansas, then walking 60 miles to settle on Clear Creek, some 3 miles northeast of Marion Centre near Chingawassa Springs. Then William B. Jones took a 160 acre homestead on Mud Creek in Clark Township, where (he) lived 18 years until his death in 1890. He was a lay minister in the Methodist Church there, and was instrumental in getting a school built there. (written by Bill Davis)1098