Talk:James Barton Jones 1834

James Barton Jones

Self sustained.

They grew their own food, hogs, beef cattle.

Cane syrup, corn, peas, beans.

They grew cotton and with spinning wheel made thread.

They used "cards", kind of like wire brushes

to pull the cotton off of the seeds.

James got sick during the war

and they sent him home.

Susan was born 1964. Susan Leah Jones Smith 11/16/1864

Aunt Matt raised the kids. Martha Elizabeth Jones Morris 1858 Aunt Matt

She said that Ma had the kid

then turned it over to her to raise.

Aunt Matt said she did not own those negroes

they owned her.

She had to be there at all times.

No matter what you have heard

those negroes did not leave.

It was their home.

Some may still be there.

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