HARDY RICHARDSON JONES

 

 

SURNAMES: JONES, MORRIS, FISER, RIDGEWAY, MIDDLETON, BOWERS, OAKES, SMITH, THALMAN, MAYNARD, GOOLDY, ALBRIGHT, MAYFIELD, MCCULLOUGH.

 

     Hardy Richardson Jones was born in Washington Parrish, Louisiana on January 7, 1844; d January 17, 1922 - a son of Ransopher Heywood and Cassandra (Morris) Jones. He came to Texas with his parents in 1855, and to Mooreville in Falls County in 1866.

     On February 7, 1866, Hardy Richardson Jones married Mary Jane Fiser, b October 14,1844 in Henry

County, Tennessee; d November 10, 1929 - a daughter of Willis A. and Offa (Ridgeway) Fiser - natives of North Carolina and Virginia, who had settled in Falls County.

     Hardy Richardson Jones served in Company A, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery, in Galveston, Texas from January 1862 through 1864 during the Civil War.

     Hardy and Mary Jane Jones had ten children: J. Willis Jones, b January 5, 1868 at Mooreville, d February 4, 1942 - married June 18, 1890 to Elizabeth Middleton; Mittie F. Jones, b July 29, 1869 at Mooreville, d February 28, 1958, married January 30, 1901 to Daniel L. Bowers; George Jones, b January 1870, d young; Wiley C. Jones, b March 15, 1871 at Mooreville, d October 27, 1904, married November 14, 1900 to Georgia Oakes - daughter of Robert Allen and Leona (Smith) Oakes; Henry Samuel Jones, b February 4, 1873, d October 14, 1939, married Louise M. Thalman on July 30, 1913; Annie Maud Jones, b February 27, 1875, d February 22, 1978, unmarried; Eliza Catherine Jones, b August 24, 1877, d February 3, 1919, married December 18, 1912 to John H. Maynard; Edward Lee Jones, b March 27, 1879, d March 5, 1943, married

August 10, 1908 to Ella M. Gooldy; Anson Jones, b August 23,1882, d April 13, 1974, married

January 14,1908 to Zela V. Albright; and Madgie May Jones, b May 8, 1885, d February 23, 1980, married December 8, 1909 to Buford Mayfield.

     Hardy Richardson and Mary Jane (Fiser) Jones are buried in the Mooreville Cemetery. The related families of Jones, Fiser, and McCullough were closely associated in the mercantile business of Mooreville, and were prominent members of the Mooreville Methodist Church. They were also farmers and ranchers.

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 256 column 2.  
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