A genealogy of the Jones family.

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Reuben Jones was born in 1795 in Henrico County, Virginia. He was a free African American. He married Elizabeth Ailstock in about 1814. They had four children. He died in about 1859 in Ohio. Descendant James McHenry Jones was born 28 August 1859 in Rendville, Ohio. His parents were Joseph Jones and Temperance Reid. He married Carrie Harrison in 1888, who died five years later. He married Elizabeth Moore in 1897. He was head of the West Virginia Colored Institute. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio.