Black Jones Family Tree

The Black Joneses, freedpeople, and formerly enslaved people connected to the Jones network and the Avalon property: the twelve named in Lewellen Jones's 1805 deed of gift, the 1820 manumission, the Columbus and Reuben Jones Reconstruction family, Marshall and Nancy Jones, the 1870 household cluster and its 1880 traces, Plato Jones and the Haywood name. They appear here as named people — never as property, never as footnotes. The bands read left to right as thematic clusters, not generations. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, click any person for dates, sources, and notes. Click the ▾ badge on a person to collapse or expand their branch.

Reading rule: every link carries a confidence level. confirmed_primary (read from the manuscript) and confirmed_secondary are citable; lead and unresolved are hypotheses, not facts — never display them as fact. This tree is sparser and more lead-heavy than the white Jones tree, and that is correct: where the record is thin, the tree says so. The red dotted do_not_merge links are identity safeguards — Turner Jones (Columbus's brother, alive 1867) is not Shandy Wesley Jones; account-29 Columbus is not Linzey's brother Columbus; Reuben's father is Turner; the four Martha Joneses and the two Lucindas stay distinct people. Diana Terrell and Holiday Jones are shown as sought-but-not-found: missing from the record, not from the story.