(Great Great Grandfather)
James Burell(Jim Buck)and Matilda were 16 years old when they were married. They had been married a year and four months when their first child, John Burrell Jones was born. They had 12 more chidren. Matilda was 39 years old when she died, the same year that she gave birth to their last child, Sarah Jones. Matilda may have died while giving birth to Sarah. My Grandma Martha's mother Mary Elizabeth Jones was the fourth child of Jim Buck and Matilda. She married Banner Mixon Thomas Mary Elizabeth was 17 and Banner was 23 when they were married. She had been married to Banner a year and a couple of months when her mother gave birth to Sarah and died shortly after. Banner and Mary Elizabeth only had a few short years together because Mary Elizabeth died just 6 years after they married. Jim Buck remarried 8 years after Matilda died. He married Eliza J. Knight (m.18 Sep 1889) They had only one child, Mary Ann Jones. This marriage ended less than 3 years later. Jim Buck then married Nettie Lucilla Sweat Jim Buck was 44 and Nettie was 15. They had four boys. 2 of the boys were twins. This marriage lasted 10 years. Jim Bucks last marriage was to Nettie C. Booth. He was 54 and Nettie was 44. They had one child, Willie Reddin Jones. He was born the day before christmas and died when he was about 1 -1/2 years old. ~ Judy
At age 19 (2 months from being 20 years old), he joined the military on Mar. 4, 1862. His rank at enlistment was corporal. Enlisted in Company G, Georgia 49th Infantry Regiment on 04 Mar 1862. Promoted to Full 2nd Sergeant on 28 Apr 1864. During the Civil War he served in Longstreet's Brigade. James was 4th Sgt. 7-29-1861,discharged disability, 9-15-1861. Enlisted as a Private in Company E 4th Regiment Georgia Calvary (Clinch County) 11-22-1862. Surrendered at Thomasville Georgia 5-23-1865.
WAYCROSS JOURNAL-HERALD, December 29, 1932 J. B. JONES Funeral services were to be held this afternoon for J. B. Jones, 90, Confederate veteran, who died at his home yesterday after a short illness. Services were to be held from the Jones Primitive Baptist Church, with interment at Mount Pleasant cemetery. R. C. Ulmer and Company was in charge of arrangements.
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Below was copied from the record as it was transcribed by Maud Crews, a great grand daughter, to who James Burell Jones dictated it about 1927.
James Burell Jones was born in Wayne County, Georgia which is now called Brantley County, May 16, 1842. There I spent my boyhood days. My father owned a good stock of cattle and hogs. We had a good range for our stock and there was plenty of wild game in the forest. We owned a small farm and raised most of our supplies. My job was mostly taking care of the stock.It was about fifteen miles to the nearest store and we only went to town about twice a year. My mother spun and weaved all of our clothes.
I was married September 9, 1858. I was sixteen years, three months and twenty four days of age, when we were married. My wife was from the sixteenth day of May until the eleventh day of June younger than I. We gave birth to our first child November 20th 1859. Our second son was born the night before I left to go to the war, July 30, 1861. I left July 31, 1861. We went to Lulaton and formed our company and elected our officers. Capt. J. C, Nickles was elected Captain and Harley Jones, my brother was elected first lieutenant. James know, my wife's uncle was elected Second Lieutenant, John F. Highsmith, my wife's brother was elected third Lieutenant and I was elected sargent.
As there was no train on the Brunswick road we had to march to Brunswick the distance of 30 miles. Not being used to walking such a long distance we were pretty well worn out when we landed at Brunswick, there we joined in with twenty six (26th) Georgia Infantry and there we formed a regiment and Carry W. Stile was our Col. and William McDonald was our Lieutenant Col.
I had not been used to camp life and I was taken sick and was sent to the hospital. The Physician of our regiment who was in charge of the hospital was W. B. Folks from Waycross. He gave me a discharge in disability from service, I left the command and returned home I stayed and home until 1862.
I re-enlisted in the Fourth Georgia Batallian, 1862 and Captain Turner came from, Thomas County with a squad of men. The companies had more men than they needed, myself and four others from Kings Co. volunteered and went into Turner's Company. So there was enough men transferred from other companies to fill out Turner's Company. Then we formed the Fourth Georgia Calvary. Clinch was our Col. and John L. Harris was out Lieutenant Co. I helped to form two companies and two regiments. I remained on the regiment. Then came a message for us to meet the enemies at Olustee, Florida. There we gained the victory of that fight and after the battle we stayed in Florida some time, doing picket duty (watching) at different points in Florida. They sent a squad of our men to Ft. Gates and the Yankees came out and captured the whole picket and carried them away.
Sometime after that we returned back to Screven Georgia where we had been stationed. We soon received orders to go to a place near Savannah, then we dismounted and was sent to Johns Island in South Carolina to meet the enemies there. Then we put the enemies to flight again. They charged their work just before day light. They elevated their guns too high and shot above our heads, only a few of our men were killed. But when they got back to the gun boat, we got behind the bankment where they were stationed. They shelled us with grape and canister. When they hit the bankment they would knock the dirt all over us. We were careful enough not to put our heads above the bank. We was behind the bank to keep the shells from hitting us. We returned back to Savannah and stopped at Macon awhile. Then we were sent to different parts of Georgia to meet our enemies.
This is only a small sketch of my service. After I returned home I farmed and timbered twelve years. After that I went in the turpentine business six years. Since that time I have been engaged in different occupations. Now I will say something about my family.
During the war my wife who was left on my little farm in Wayne County, did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved and all of the clothes for herself and three children and took care of all the cows and hogs. She became the mother of fourteen children and five of them are living now, I have been married four times and the father of twenty children. only seven now are living. I have about sixty grand children near one hundred great grand children and six great great grand children. I could say a good many other things but time and space want admit.
Spiritual Record
More than fifty years ago I was desirious to know the plan of salvation. I lay down on my bed one night with the same desire, there came a light from the East going toward the East Coast. When it got near me it made a quick change and went right into my breast. In a few minutes there came a second light in the same place and the same change, about the same time came a third. When I roused up I was in a prostrate conditiion, I had no power, no weight, no strength and I was a light body within.
Now this showed me that I had no power within myself to gain the influence of God myself, righteousness was all done away with. It was some little time before that feeling vanished away.
Now I don't know what those lights were unless it was the Father, Son and Holy Ghosts. Now I have fone(?) from time to time, it seems, as far away from God as I could but when I go to church and hear a gospel sermon preached those lights appear to me as same as ever, I could not get rid of them, I finally went to the Primitive Baptist Church and offered myself and was received. There were two ladies who joined the same time I did.
When I related what I had to the church, there was a precious sister came next to answer her questions, when they asked her what she had to say in reguards to her feeling she said I had told her feelings better than she could. It gave me great satisfaction that somebody else had witnessed as same as I had.
Some few years ago I had a vision. I thought I was standing on a narrow walk with my back to the east and my face to the west. There was a burning furnace on my right and a sea on the left all made up close to my walk. I thought when I saw the sea I said to myself that is the buring ground. I looked down to see what I was standing on, I was standing on a strong unmovable foundation. The walk led out in the westward direction as far as I could see. ther was nobody on that walk but me. I could not understand why there was no one on it but me. I was thinking over the matter a few days afterwards, it was as open to me as my hands are before my face, when some one said unto me that is your walk, this proved to me that this walk was a walk of obedience. That I can't walk your walk, and you can't walk mine, I'll leave it for you to judge what this burning furnance and this sea was.
In a short time after that I had another vision. Ther was a man living in the settlement who claimed to be a Lord. I thought I went to his house and in this light there stood a woman and she was fair, neat and complete, the light was shrinking on her from both directions. I thought I said to myself that is Zion.
Now my dear people that shows me that the bride, the lambs wife will be full neat and complete and not a one left out at the end of time. Those people lying over yonder will be in the same condition that we saw them in.
My dear people there is many things that I could say in my experience, but I will leave this for your consideration.
Hoping that you may read this with a careful understanding, I am near eighty-five years old and those things has strengthened me up to this day..
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Isabelle Nunez mother of John Barney Nunez circa 1874
Southeastern Georgia
Excerpts from several letters from Rev. J. B. Nunez II to his grandson, answering questions about his grandparents.
Isabelle Nunez mother of John Barney Nunez
Rev. J. B. Nunez II letters about his father
Sept 20, 1971 - "...my father's mother was Isabel Nunez. She had 2 sons and one daughter, My father, John Barney Nunez, his brother, Franklin Willie Nunez, their sister, Dessie Amonia Nunez. She [Dessie Amonia Nunez] married Smith, they had I think 12 children. Franklin Willie Nunez married Ada Faust. They had 2 sons, Fleming Nunez and Theron Alvin Nunez, and a daughter, Ada Mae Nunez, who married I can not think of the name but they lived in Nashville,Tenn. They had I believe 2 boys and 2 girls. Now Theron's wife Lillian, they have a son Theron A. Nunez, Jr. But for Fleming, I think they had a girl I am not sure. Well, I guess that comes down to my father, John Barney Nunez. He married Mary Elizabeth Fleming, who was my mother. I was the only child...
Oct. 6th 1976 - "...My father's Mother was Isabell Nunez (called Bell) this was my Grand Mother; Born Jan. 1st 1854, Died Nov. 14th 1926, Buried in Tampa Fla.; Had 3 children:
1. John Barney Nunez, had only 1 Son;
- My Father, Born Jan. 28th 1874, Died Nov. 28th 1902, Burried Lott Cemetery Waycross Ga.
2. Olivet Desie Amonia had 12 children; Born May 7th 1877, married W. R. Smith. Died and Buried Tampa, Fla.
3. Franklin Willie Nunez, Born Dec. 28th 1883, Died Dec. 29th 1911
Married Ada B. Ward, Burried in Oakland Cemetery, Waycross, Ga;Had 3 children:
Fleming F. Nunez, Ada Mae Nunez, Theron A. Nunez
Fleming lives near Baltimore
Ada Mae married Loftus Bender lives near Nashville, Tenn. I have lost the address..."
Feb. 7 - 1978 - "Now my father's Mother Name was Isabelle call Bell. (Isabelle) Nunez. Her father Daniel A. Nunez. Her mother Sara A. Buried in Waycross in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, 3 miles west of Waycross ... Now my father’s mother had 490 acres, 10 acres in cultivation, about 6 miles south of Nahunta, Ga., where it is believed my father was born, Jan 28, 1874. He got a leg broke as a boy, fell off an ox cart hauling saw dust from a sawmill.
Feb. 18 – 1978 "... I will try to put you right, though it hurts. (Bell) Isabelle Nunez was born Jan. 1, 1854 was only 20 yrs old when my father John Barney Nunez was born Jan 28 – 1874; His sister Olivet Dessemonia Nunez Born May 7 – 1877; His brother Franklin Willie Nunez born Dec 28 – 1883; later [March 9, 1890, Bell] Married J. S. Collins an Engineer on a log train for a saw mill. As a boy my father was hauling saw dust from the mill with an Ox & Cart. He fell off and the Cart ran over and broke his leg. Now his father James Burrell Jones had a large family of boys and girls half brothers & sisters to my father. Joseph Jones, Jap Jones, Benjamin Jones, Hattie Jones. I do not remember all of them, but I knew them as my Uncles and Aunts."
Mar. 24, 1978 "... Now about the name Jones, according to law an unmarried woman has a child, it retains the mothers Maiden Name ... you see it was that Isabelle (Bell) Nunez was serving as the doctor, or we call her a mid-wife, for Jas. B. Jones' Wife when she had her babies, and she fell for J. B. Jones. She was a young woman, about 20 yrs old, something like a Nurse to Mrs. Jones, when her babies where born. So much for that, you ask if I knew James Burrell Jones. Yes, he use to come to my fathers Restaurant, and when I was small he alway gave me 25¢, a quarter. My father called dad just as you do [your step-father]. He gave us his family Record, wrote in a Note Book. I had a car wreck when I moved back to Georgia, and lost a suit case with all my records. And about $6,000.00 worth of house hold goods and Furniture, and some pictures, one of Isabelle, my grand mother.
April 17, 1978- James Burrell Jones he worked turpentine from pine trees and when I knew Grand Pa Jones he was running a Livery Stable, rented horses and Buggies to people to drive and kept horses for other people that owned horses and before he died he run a Wood yard where he sold Stove wood and Fireplace wood. I think he was married 4 times but never married my fathers mother, Isabell Nunez all his children are 1/2 Brother 1/2 Sister (all dead but 2 girls) to My father so was Uncle Frank and Aunt Dessie Amonia. She married W. R. Smith and had a house full of children
April 19, 1978- Now like I have said before Grand Mother Isabelle (Bell) Nunez had these 3 children before she was married and I do not know who was the father of Uncle Frank and aunt Dessie only that they were ½ brother + ½ sister to my father. But James Jones was not their father. Now Grand Mother Bell Nunez latter married J. S. Collins an engineer on a log train that hauled logs to the Saw Mill.