Household #56: Jones, William

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In the 1900 Barney census, William Jones headed a 3-person household. The table below preserves the exact names, relationships, ages, birthplaces, and occupations recorded for the household.

Household Snapshot

William Jones headed a 3-person household in the 1900 Barney census with 1 spouse or marital partner and 1 child.

William Jones's listed occupation was Laborer at saw mill.

All listed household members were reported as born in Georgia.

Newspaper and Public-Record Trail

This section flags public-record leads separate from the census table. The detailed discussion stays in the family narrative, research status, and source citations below.

1900 Census Household

Children and Later Trails

This section is reserved for later-life child evidence. No later spouse, death, burial, obituary, probate, separate household, or descendant-line identification has been added here yet from direct records.

Family Narrative

William Jones appears in the 1900 census at Barney, Brooks County, with his wife Georgie and infant daughter Annie. The census gives William's birth as June 1873 in Georgia, describes him as a sawmill laborer, and shows that he and his family were renting their home. The household was newly formed, and the timing fits the Brooks County marriage record for Mr. William F. Jones and Miss Georgia Berryhill, licensed 16 Dec 1898 and married 22 Dec 1898.

Georgia's identity is well supported by the combined record trail. Her 1935 Florida death certificate identifies her as Georgia Emaline Jones, born 3 Oct 1880 at Quitman, Georgia, wife of Wm. F. Jones, with parents J. W. Berryhill and Wealthia A. Patrick. That parentage fits the Berryhill family already present elsewhere in the Barney community, and the 1910 household adds a strong internal link because Robert L. Berryhill was living with William and Georgia as a brother-in-law.

William can be followed beyond Barney through a steady Florida census trail. In 1910, William F. Jones, Georgia E. Jones, Annie J. Jones, and Robert L. Berryhill were in Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, where the original schedule records William’s occupation as “Car repairer” and his industry as “Rail road Shop.” The index transcribes the occupation as “Auto Mechanic,” but that is not the manuscript wording. In 1920 the family remained in Lakeland, and Annie appeared there as Annie Rogers with her husband Norman Rogers. William was still in Polk County in 1930, 1940, and 1950. Across those records he was described in work connected with auto repair, a delicatessen, and farming.

The family identification also reaches backward with useful support. In 1880, seven-year-old William Jones was enumerated in District 394, Montgomery County, Georgia, as a son in the household of Russell Jones and Jane Jones. Memorial evidence identifies those parents more fully as Corp Russell Blackshear Jones and Jane Nicholson Clark Jones. Annie's later identity is also well anchored: her 1964 Tampa Tribune obituary for Mrs. Annie J. Rodgers of Lakeland named her father as W. F. Jones of Lakeland, linking the Barney child in 1900 to the later Rodgers family in Florida.

Open Research Questions

• Parentage audit: Keep head-of-household and spouse parentage as unresolved unless a cited direct record names the parents or the entry explains the census chain supporting the identification.
• Child census audit: Continue direct-record tracking for each child named in the 1900 household where later census, marriage, death, burial, obituary, or other parent-link proof is not already cited above.
• Other household member audit: Verify every non-nuclear household member, including in-laws, boarders, servants, laborers, uncles, grandchildren, and collateral relatives, before treating the stated relationship as part of the proved family structure.
• The 1880 census directly supports William as the son of Russell Jones and Jane Jones, but the fuller names Corp Russell Blackshear Jones and Jane Nicholson Clark Jones come from derivative memorial evidence rather than from that census itself.
• A direct death certificate for William F. Jones has not yet been added. His later life is well traced by census and memorial material, but the death record would strengthen the final link.
• The 1930 census appears to conflict with other records on William's birthplace and his parents' birthplaces. That inconsistency should be preserved as a record conflict rather than harmonized away without further evidence.
• Georgia's death certificate gives her parents as J. W. Berryhill and Wealthia A. Patrick. An 1880 Berryhill household image would still be useful if a childhood census placement for Georgia is wanted alongside the later death-record evidence.
• Annie's identity as the daughter from the 1900 household is now strongly supported by the 1920 Lakeland household and her 1964 obituary, but her marriage record to Norman Rogers or Rodgers would still be useful as an additional bridge.
• The exact form Rogers versus Rodgers should be preserved as the records give it until all later records are compared together.

Research Status

Strong, multi-record household reconstruction. The 1900 Barney household, the 1898 marriage record, Georgia's 1935 death certificate, the 1880 William Jones childhood census placement, the later Polk County census chain, and Annie's 1964 obituary now support the household well. The main remaining gap is William's direct death record.

Sources

• 1900 U.S. census, Barney, Brooks County, Georgia, William Jones household, sheet 3, dwelling 56, family 56.
• Brooks County, Georgia, marriage record for Mr. William F. Jones and Miss Georgia Berryhill, license issued 16 Dec 1898, married 22 Dec 1898.
• 1910 U.S. census, Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, ED 144, sheet 16B, lines 91–94, William F. Jones household; original occupation “Car repairer,” industry “Rail road Shop”; Robert L. Berryhill recorded as brother-in-law.
• 1920 U.S. census, Lakeland Ward 3, Polk County, Florida, William F. Jones household, including Annie Rogers and Norman Rogers.
• 1930 U.S. census, Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, William F. Jones household.
• 1940 U.S. census, Polk County, Florida, W. F. Jones household.
• 1950 U.S. census, Polk County, Florida, William F. Jones household.
• 1880 U.S. census, District 394, Montgomery County, Georgia, Russell Jones household, including son William Jones, age 7.
• Florida death certificate, Georgia Emaline Jones, died 5 Nov 1935, Lakeland, Polk County, Florida.
• Tampa Tribune, 14 Jan 1964, obituary of Mrs. Annie J. Rodgers, naming her father as W. F. Jones of Lakeland.
• Find A Grave memorial 91176051 for Georgia Emaline Berryhill Jones, used as derivative cemetery and family-link support.
• Find A Grave memorial 91176057 for William Fletcher Jones, used as derivative cemetery and family-link support.
• Find A Grave memorial 21274994 for Corp Russell Blackshear Jones, used as derivative support for fuller name, burial, and military-stone wording.
• Find A Grave memorial 21274993 for Jane Nicholson Clark Jones, used as derivative support for fuller name and burial.

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