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Joseph G. Jones was the younger brother of my great, great grandfather, Benjamin Jones. His parents were Richard Jones and Susan Ellis Gibbs Jones. I know very little about this man and I have learned that somewhat randomly.
Joseph was born on 29 June 1834 at Hanover, New Jersey. He appears to have attended a school run by Jesse Davis, and OSP clergyman in New Hanover. I cannot determine that he served in the Civil War but he was living in Brooklyn, New York when he married Christine Kellog (daughter of Martin Kellog and Marilla Cooley Kellog). They had one son, Joseph Walter Jones, who tragically died before he was six months old in 1866. The couple was in Florence, New Jersey at the time.
At this point the details get sketchy. I found Joseph and Christine living in Eden, Pennsylvania on 12 July 1870 but I do not find him again on another census in any state. Curiously, Joseph’s death certificate listed him as a widower on 25 March 1895 when he died in New York at 229 W. 12th St. However, Christine did not predecease him.
In 1875 Christine was living in Caldwell, NY near Lake George within the household of her mother Marilla Kellog. And in 1884 she married Henry Lewis Gregg in Newton, Massachusetts. She was living in Hudson, NY with her husband when she died on 12 August 1889.
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