Wayne County Family Biographies


Elihu Jones of Huron

3 Generations of Descendants of Noah and Dinah [Hitchcock] Jones of Andover, CT


Son Elihu (and possibly others?) moved to Huron, Wayne County, NY.

This is the culmination of my research to date on this branch of the Jones family.  Garner Jones [#173] is my direct ancestor and I have much more on his direct descendants and a little more on descendants of the other individuals contained herein. I would welcome any sharing of data with other descendants of Griffith Jones of Springfield, MA (the great-grandfather of Noah Jones). - Lisa Slaski
Email: GenBug@cfl.rr.com

Primary sources:

1. Connecticut vital statistics as compiled by Barbour.
2. Stephen Byrd Jones (1877-1966).  Jones Genealogy Starting from Andover Connecticut, 1724 - typed manuscript.
3. Mrs. Edward Hitchcock, Sr..  The Genealogy of the Hitchcock Family who are descended from Mathias Hitchcock of East Haven, Conn., and Luke Hitchcock of Wethersfield, Conn.  Press of Carpenter & Morehouse, Amherst, Mass., 1894.
4. John Ogden Wadsworth.  Wolcott, New york, Old and New: a History of the Original Town of Wolcott ad the Four Present Townships, Butler, Huron, Rose, Wolcott into which the Original Town was Divided and Genealogic Sketches of the Pioneer Families.  Wolcott, NY.
5. Information from Thaxton Brown who is researching Amasa Jones and Levina Lyman's branch.
6.  USGenWeb / NYGenWeb online data.
7.  NYS Health Dept. Index of Deaths.
8.  US Federal Census Records.

1. Noah Jones was born on 15 MAY 1724 in Andover, Tolland, CT, a son of Benjamin Jones and Patience Evarts.  He died in OCT 1811 in Tolland county, CT. Benjamin's parents were Benoni Jones and Hester Ingersoll. Benoni's parents were Griffith and Sarah Jones.

Noah Jones was married to Dinah Hitchcock (daughter of John Hitchcock and Elizabeth Jones) on 9 MAY 1745 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.  Dinah Hitchcock was born on 20 AUG 1723.  She died in DEC 1803 in CT.  Noah Jones and Dinah Hitchcock had the following children:

    11. Asahel Jones was born on 30 MAR 1746 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

Asahel Jones was married to Eunice Hendee on 27 DEC 1770 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Asahel Jones and Eunice Hendee had the following children:

        111. Marting Jones was born on 12 APR 1774 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 14 OCT 1775 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

        112. Millender Jones was born on 19 OCT 1775 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. She died on 28 NOV 1779 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

        113. Wharton Jones was born on 27 SEP 1777 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

    12. Remembrance Jones was born on 13 APR 1748 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. She died on 5 DEC 1775.

    13. Elihu Jones was born on 25 APR 1751 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He moved in 1812 to Huron, Wayne, NY. He died on 1 FEB 1828 in Huron, Wayne, NY. and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY.


From "Wolcott, New York, Old and New a History of the Original Town of Wolcott...", by John Ogden Wadsworth, Wolcott, NY:

 The head of the first Jones family in Huron was Elihu, who had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and who, notwithstanding the fact that the Revolution had ended many years before, still stood ready to fight for his home and country.  When in Jun 1813, during the War of 1812, the British fleet on Lake Ontario opened fire on Sodus Point and the news reached Elihu, he shouldered his old Revolutionary flint-lock and with some of his neighbors started for the "Point" but when they reached Sodus Bay the ships had departed.


Elihu Jones was married to Lydia Blish on 12 AUG 1773 in Bolton, Tolland, CT.  Lydia Blish was born on 28 MAR 1754 in Hebron, Tolland, CT.  She died on 18 MAR 1817 in Huron, Wayne, NY.  Gravestone listing has 20 Mar 1818. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY. Elihu Jones and Lydia Blish had the following children:

        131. Lydia Jones was born on 13 AUG 1774 in Bolton, Tolland, CT.

 Lydia Jones was married to Echibod Merrill.  Lydia Jones and Echibod Merrill had the following child:

            1311. Lydia Merrill married Charles Mathews.

        132. Elihu Jones was born on 5 SEP 1776 in Bolton, Tolland, CT. Never married.

        133. Amillea Jones was born on 9 DEC 1778 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

        134. Luther Jones was born on 10 NOV 1783 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died in APR 1794.

        135. Lamson (aka Alanson) Jones was born on 24 FEB 1788.  He died on 2 AUG 1863.

Lamson (aka Alanson) Jones was married to Lucinda Chapin. Lamson (aka Alanson) Jones and Lucinda Chapin had the following adopted child:

            1351. Andrew Spencer.

        136. Eli Jones was born on 6 JUL 1790 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 28 JUN 1804.

        137. Luther Jones was born on 28 NOV 1794 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Luther and his brother Lamson, worked for Upson's in a sawmill in CT. They came to Huron, NY from CT in 1812. Luther died on 14 AUG 1868. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY.

Luther Jones was married to Dolly Jones (daughter of Noah Jones and Dolly Killam) on 23 MAR 1814. Dolly Jones was born on 25 JAN 1792 in Andover, Tolland, CT. She died on 25 NOV 1843. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY. Luther later married Dolly's sister Lura Jones (they had no children). Luther Jones and Dolly Jones had the following children:

            1371. Achsah Aurilla Jones was born on 11 OCT 1814 in Huron, Wayne, NY. She died on 15 FEB 1866.  She married John Drury.

            1372. Rev. Amasa Noah Jones was born on 30 AUG 1820 in Huron, Wayne, NY. He died on 2 MAR 1856 in Huron, Wayne, NY. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY. He married Caroline Guthrie on 30 Aug 1838. Caroline married Stephen Dowd about 1860.

        138. Achsah Jones was born on 10 NOV 1785 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 4 JUL 1804.

    14. Elizabeth Jones was born on 18 OCT 1753 in Andover, Tolland, CT.

    15. Noah Jones was born on 6 JUN 1756 in Andover, Tolland, CT. He died on 6 OCT 1829.

 Noah Jones was married to Dolly Killam on 25 MAY 1785 in Preston, CT. Dolly Killam was born in 1761. She died on 2 AUG 1803. Noah Jones and Dolly Killam had the following children:

        151. Jones was born on 21 JUN 1785.  He (or she) died on 21 JUN 1785.

        152. Lucinda Jones was born on 21 JUN 1786.  She died on 2 OCT 1860. Had a son Edwin N. Jones, Mansfield, Tolland, CT. She lived at Luther Jones' house in Huron, NY.

        153. Sabrah Jones was born on 27 APR 1788 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. She died on 11 MAY 1795.

        154. Joanna Jones was born on 12 APR 1790. She died on 7 JUL 1812.

        155. Dolly Jones was born on 25 JAN 1792 in Andover, Tolland, CT. She died on 25 NOV 1843. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY.

 Dolly Jones was married to Luther Jones (son of Elihu Jones and Lydia Blish) on 23 MAR 1814. Luther Jones was born on 28 NOV 1794 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He resided in 1867 in Huron, Wayne, NY. He died on 14 AUG 1868. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY. Dolly Jones and Luther Jones had the following children:

 The remainder of this line was detailed above.

        156. Lura Jones was born on 24 FEB 1794. She died on 19 FEB 1870. She was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Huron, Wayne, NY. She was the second wife of her sister's husband, Luther Jones. They had no children.

 The remainder of this line was detailed above.

        157. Merlin Jones was born on 12 NOV 1795. He went to Illinois.

        158. Thomas Killam Jones was born on 6 NOV 1797 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 25 MAR 1878 in Andover, Tolland, CT.

 Thomas Killam Jones was married to Julia.  Julia died on 13 MAY 1837. Thomas Killam Jones and Julia had the following children:

            1581. Charles H. Jones was born about 1821 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He (or she) died on 19 OCT 1847 in Andover, Tolland, CT.

 Thomas Killam Jones was married to Pamelia H. Pamelia H. was born in 1820.  She died in 1901.

        159. Amasa Jones was born on 6 OCT 1799 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 10 OCT 1859 in Andover, Tolland, CT. Death record states that Amasa was a farmer and that his age was 60, and he was born in Coventry.

 Amasa Jones was married to Levina Lyman on 16 JAN 1828 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.  Levina Lyman was born on 12 JUN 1800. She died on 18 AUG 1868 in Andover, Tolland, CT. Amasa Jones and Levina Lyman had the following children:

            1591. Harvey Jones was born on 16 SEP 1828. He died on 16 SEP 1828.

            1592. Lucy Maria Jones was born on 30 DEC 1832 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. She died on 27 NOV 1898. She married James A. Chadwick 27 Apr 1851 in Andover, CT and later F. Willard Smith.

            1593. Walter Benjamin Jones was born on 25 APR 1840. He died on 29 DEC 1916. He married Harriet Pernetta Dickerson on 15 OCT 1871 and Annie Thymer on 31 JUN 1905.

            1594. Randall Jones was born on 3 MAR 1845.  He died on 2 FEB 1930. He married Julia A. Latham and Laura W. Coleman.

    16. Patience Jones was born on 27 APR 1760 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.

    17. Eliakim Jones was born on 1 OCT 1764 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 25 JAN 1827 in N. Coventry, Tolland, CT.

 Eliakim Jones was married to Rebecca Webster (daughter of Simeon Webster and Rebecca Brown) on 11 NOV 1784 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Rebecca Webster was born on 22 MAR 1765 in Hebron, Tolland, CT. She died in MAY 1809 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Eliakim Jones and Rebecca Webster had the following children:

        171. Rebecca Jones was born on 26 NOV 1786 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. She died on 3 MAY 1843 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Rebecca and her husband lived at Mansfield, CT.

 Rebecca Jones was married to Walter Tilden.  Walter Tilden was born on 20 OCT 1784 in Marshfield, Plymouth, MA.  Webster genealogy provides birth date only (not the place of birth). He died on 23 JUN 1872 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He was a farmer of Mansfield, CT.  Rebecca Jones and Walter Tilden had the following children:

            1711. Alanson Tilden was born on 20 NOV 1805 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT.

            1712. Lewezer Tilden was born on 1 MAY 1809 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. He married Louise Brigham.

            1713. Joshua Tilden was born on 9 APR 1812 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. He married Caroline Carpenter.

            1714. Eunice Tilden was born on 10 OCT 1815.

            1715. Rufus Tilden was born on 2 FEB 1819 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. He married Jane Wealthy Brigham.

            1716. Eunice Catherine Tilden was born on 23 SEP 1822 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. She married Phineas Ward Turner.

            1717. Betsy Jones Tilden was born on 4 JAN 1825 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. She married Jesse Elliot Heald.

            1718. Charles Wesley Tilden was born on 2 AUG 1828 in North Coventry, Tolland, CT. He married Sarah Livee.

        172. Eliakim Jones Jr. was born on 27 JAN 1788 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. He died on 25 APR 1871. Eliakim lived at Mansfield, CT.

 Eliakim Jones Jr. was married to Betsy Tilden on 11 JUN 1812.  They resided in Mansfield, CT and had no children. Betsy Tilden was born in 1787. She died on 4 APR 1869.

        173. Garner Jones was born on 25 MAR 1793 in Hebron, Tolland, CT. He died on 18 JUL 1853 in Bartlett, Oneida, NY. He was buried in Jones Farm Cemetery, Bartlett, Oneida, NY. He was a farmer.

 Garner Jones was married to Lucy Ingraham (daughter of Benjamin Ingraham and Lucy Pitkin) on 9 JAN 1828 in Brookfield, Madison, NY. Lucy Ingraham was born on 9 APR 1801 in Hartford, Hartford, CT. She died on 14 MAR 1895 in Bartlett, Oneida, NY. Her obituary reads:


 Lucy Jones
Rome Daily Sentinal, March 15, 1895

Bartlett, March 15 - The last of the old Landmarks removed.  Mrs Lucy Jones, relict of Garner Jones, whom she survived for forty years, and last of the early settlers of this place passed away last evening after an illness of several months, aged 93 years, 11 months, and 5 days. She was born in Connecticut.  She came wither her husband to this place about the year 1829 and located on the farm where she died. Mrs Jones was noted for her strict integrity, force of character and kindness to the poor.  she retained her faculties to a remarkable degree until within a few days of her demise. She professed religion when quite young and united with the Baptist Church. She is survived by two daughters M. S. M. Carpenter and Mrs George B. Temple, both of this place, who have been untiring in their care for her.


 She was buried in Jones Farm Cemetery, Bartlett, Oneida, NY. Garner Jones and Lucy Ingraham had the following children:

            1731. Sarah Maria Jones was born on 3 OCT 1829 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY. She died on 11 SEP 1830 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY. She was buried in Jones Farm Cemetery, Bartlett, Oneida, NY.

            1732. Sarah Maria Jones was born on 18 JUN 1832. She died on 1 MAR 1911 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY.  She married 25 Oct 1854 to George Washington Carpenter. Sarah took in wash and sewing to earn extra income. After her husband left her, she and her son lived the rest of their lives in her father's home in Bartlett. She lived in the rear part of the house.

            1733. Diana Rebecca Jones was born on 11 JUN 1836 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY. She died on 27 DEC 1857 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY. She was buried in Jones Farm Cemetery, Bartlett, Oneida, NY.

            1734. Everancy Amelia Jones was born on 27 JUN 1839 in Bartlett, Oneida, NY. She died on 10 OCT 1925 in Westmoreland, Oneida, NY.  She married George B. Temple 7 Mar 1866.

    18. Hannah Jones was born on 21 JUL 1767 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.



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