SOME THOUGHTS ON THE JONES-STEHLI/STALEY CONNECTION - A
I am particularly interested in learning more about these ancestors:
JOHN JONES
One book said he was Welsh. In Orangeburg 1730.
JAMES D. JONES
Son of Henry and Mary Pou Jones, grandson of John and Esther Jones, m. Mariah Catherine Stehley, d/o Luthern Minister, (In Orangeburg, SC 1720 from Germany) went to AL in 1837.
MURENO GIRLS, URSULA AND MARGARET
Married Pou men (father and son). In Scotland and Orangeburg. Murenos were related to the Royal family in Italy.
POU
Of Spanish descent and a very illustrious and prominent family. Many representatives of the family have attained rank as statesmen, soldiers, civil, political and church Officials, etc. The Pou lineage coming from Catalonia, is prominent and is as ancient as the Catalan tongue, in which the word "Pou" means "a well", or source of drinking water. (Coat of Arms: Golden Field, a Red curbstone of a Well, a Green Lizard on either side with the gesture of climbing up the same.) After several generations in France, when the Pou's went to the British Isles, they recorded the description for the Coat of Arms in the French Language in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Court of Lord Lyon, H. M. Register House. I promise the Pou Coat of Arms, as well as the Strother very soon.
The name was originally de Pou or de Pow. One of these illustrious families established itself in the Balearic Island, when King Alonso the 3rd of Aragon conquered King James the 2nd on the Island of Mallorca in 1285. Pedro Pou was one of the guards who defended the castle of Alaro. Bartholome Pou, noted Theologian, was a member of the coates (Senate) in 1363, and was summoned by King Pedro the 4th of Aragon as representative to the principal state of Majorca.
Don James Pou y Bernard, doctor of laws, wise and virtuous man, and exemplary priest, was Judge of the Tribune of Rota for the Crown of Aragon, was Canon of the Holy Roman Church of Palina, and was Archbishop of Bar Perfect of Cureienleam, was also protector of Poland, and Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, called Santa Maria in Via Lata. To the celebrated council that met at Trent, he was one of the legates of his Holiness. The cardinal of San Flora tried several times to have him elected Pope, but one doctor tenaciously opposed such exalted promotion, in spite of the fact that, accepting the tiara, he would have excelled to the wishes of many princes of Europe. He died in Rome on April 26, 1563.
Don Martin Pou, in 1708, was juror of the City and Kingdom of Majorea.
Father Bartholome Pou, Jesuit, gifted with rare talents, extraordinary memory, great penetration and perspicacity, and untiring application to study, hsone in the sciences, excelling chiefly in the Latin and Greek tongues. The Pou's left Spain, fled to France and to Scotland (left for Political or Religous reasons) to Orangeburg, SC, early 1700.
Robert Pou, a notary in Eyemouth, Berwickshire, in 1625, was the father of the Minister of Chrinside.
Gavin Pou, Merchant of Glasgow, was admitted a Burgess at the desire of John Craig, late Treasurer, on Sept. 6, 1715.
Gavin Pou, barber apprentice and surgeon to John Robertson, was admitted a Burgess, on Sept 11, 1733. This is the Gavin Pou who settled in Orangeburg District in 1740.
Children of Phillip and Ursula Mureno Pou (Scotland) were in Orangeburg.
1. George Pou, was very prominent in Civic affairs.
2. David Pou, held public offices and was prominent.
3. Gavin Pou, (I come from Gavin), was prominent in Religious and Civic affairs. Served as a Justice of the Peace for many years and commisssioned to build a church at St. Matthews Parish in 1765, and again, in 1768. Appointed as a member of committee to present gifts to the Indians. He had been granted large tracts of land in Orangeburg. Gavin died May 5, 1775.
Gavin and Margaret Mureno Pou's eight children were:
1. Mary Pou who married Henry Jones after the death of James Wolfe.
2. John Pou m Elizabeth Giessendanner, dau. of Rev. Giessendanner.
3. Margaret Pou m Christopher Rowe
4. Ann Pou m John Wolfe
5. William Pou, Sr. m 1st Ann Baxter, 2nd Ann Miller
6. Phillip, was killed during the Rev. War, unmarried.
7. Robert, b 1741, died as infant
8. Robert Pou, b 1753 m Ann Appalonia Wolfe, who was b 1750, and died 1810, dau of Jacob Wolfe and Ann Appalonia Shuler of Orangeburg. They had 11 children.
Mary Pou, one of these children and my Gt, Gt, Gt Grandmother, was b 8-3-1751 in Glasgow, Scotland She was the granddaughter of Ursula Mureno and Phillip Pou of Scotland.
Mary Pou m 1st James Wolfe, m 2nd Henry Jones, in Orangeburg, my Gt Gt Gt Grandfather. The six daughters and two sons of Henry and Mary Pou Jones were:
1. Rebecca Jones b 1789 m 1st Uriah Salley, 2nd Dempsey Corbitt
2. Mary Jones b 1803 m Lawrence Rambo and went to Alabama
3. Margaret Jane Jones b 1774 m James Fanning, 1831
4. Ann Frances Jones b 1788 m John Henry Livingston (known as Big Henry
5. Sally Jones m Martin Friday, an Uncle of Uriah Salley
6. Eleanor Jones m John Henry Salley (brother of Uriah Salley)
Henry and Mary Pou Jones' two sons were:
7. James D. Jones, married Mariah Catherine Stehely (My Gt Gt Grandparents) and, with three children, went to Pike county, Alabama in 1837. Urban Louis Jones I, Hansford S. Jones Daughter Carrie Jones Boyd had married Alfred Boyd, son of Archibald Boyd from Newberry, SC, and went also. The Jones/Boyd decendants from SC married Murphree, Corley, Chapman, Smart,Davie, in Troy and Clayton, AL, that's Barbour co.
8. Louis (sic) Jones, b 4-7-1786 married 7-13-1813, died 3-28-1876, married Ann Elizabeth Pou Jones (his cousin) b 2-23-1796 died 9-6-1875 Their daughter-- Rebecca Margaret Jones Jones married Lewis (sic) Jones. (They were known as the Edgefield Joneses - I met decendants of this family this summer.) The Edgefield Joneses are buried in an Old Jones cemetary in Edgefield with 3 of their children: Issac, Jane? and ___. Some stones moved, in middle of subdivision. (Will fill these blanks later).
Children of Louis and Ann Elizabeth Jones:
1. James b 11-4-1814
2. Henry William b 21-1816
3. Rebecca Margaret Jones Jones (m Lewis (sic) Jones son of Mathias Jones and Clara Perry, son of Joseph Jones and Mary Carter
4. Joseph Alvah Jones b 9-9-1821
5. Louis Pou Jones b 6-6-1836
6. Cornilia Ann Jones b 1-5-1827
7. Amanda Florella Jones Jones b 7-27-1830 married 12-15-1856
8. Benjamin Artemus Jones b 3-9-1832 died 1-3-1873 m Lucy Semple
9. Claudia Elizabeth Jones b 1-22-1835
10. Theodore Adolphus Jones b 12-29-1837
11. William Pou Jones b 1-24-1843.
William Pou m 1st Ann Baxter, had one son William, Jr., m. 2nd. Ann Miller & had other children
1. Mary Pou m Martin Friday.
2. Ann Pou m Rev. William West in Autauga county, Alabama.
3. Gavin Pou m Margaret Shuler
4. Robert m Margaret Tatum
5. John Pou.
6. Ann Elizabeth Pou m Louis Jones, a cousin
7. Robert, an older son, lost his life in the Rev War, unmarried.
William Pou Sr's wife, Ann Baxter, died in childbirth leaving only son Willaim Pou Jr. who m Rutha Shilling.
Their Children:
l. Ann Baxter Pou m Gaspar Golson.
2. William D.
3. Phillip Gavin,
4. John Wesley m Rachael Agnes Golsan,
5. James Robert m Esther Harben,
6. Henry Patrick m 1st Drucilla Mobley Chapman, 2nd Mrs Ward.
Ann Elizabeth Pou b 3-28-1876 married 7-13-1813 d 9-6-1875 married Louis Jones (her cousin) b 4-7-1786, died 3-28-1876
Their daughter-- Rebecca Margaret Jones Jones was b 4-7-1786 married 7-13-1813, LEWIS JONES b _____ Dd _____. (They were known as the "Edgefield Joneses" - more on that later). They are buried in an Old Jones cemetary in Edgefield with ? of their children: Issac, Jane? and ___. Some Stones moved to make yards bigger... houses all around. (Will fill these blanks later).
The last couple of Jones generations lived in south Alabama and their Salley cousins had moved to MS. All from Orangeburg, South Carolina.
My earliest ancestor that I have information on was John Jones, (married Esther ___) who was in Orangeburgh District, SC, in the 1730's and operated a ferry on the N. Edisto River in late 1700's. Their son, Henry, later operated the Jones toll bridge at the same site. (This summer I got to see Jones Bridge Road and The Jones Bridge.
Yes, it's modern, now. You are looking west and can see a tiny bit of the bridge. At the top of the hill, was the Jones home. The road turned left toward Barnwell, and, later, there was a fork to the right toward Augusta, GA That, I assume, was the spot for the old Jones Post Office.
Henry, John II, Mary, were the children of John and Esther ___Jones (What happened to John Jones II?) I found Mary Jones, d/o John and Esther Jones in the Orangeburg HOLMAN history. I think she married a Russell. Esther Jones m 2nd James Lewis.
Some other Jones names, JUST in case you have read this far:
