Life History

Notes

• Jones Connally first appears in the 1850 census with his parents and siblings in Murray County, Georgia.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia, 17 October, Page 214 (427), Hse/Fam #s unreadable
  Connally, Thomas 45 M Farmer, Real Estate $3000 b Tenn
  Connally, Mary 43 F GA
  Connally, Jones 24 M Student b GA
  
  U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
  Jones Connally
  Confederate, 21st Regiment, Texas Cavalry (1st Texas Lancers)
  COMPANY I, Sergeant
  (Descendant James Jones indicates that Jones signed up for this unit in Cass County, Texas.)
  
  Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
  Mr Jones Connally
  Marriage 27 Oct 1867 Whitfield County, Georgia
  Spouse Mary E Connally
  Ceremony performed by J A R Hansk, Minister of the Gospel
  License issued 23 Oct 1867 by J P Freeman, Ordinary, Georgia, Whitfield County
  Registered Murray County Marriage Book, p 55
  
  JOnes and Mary moved to Texas, along with some of her Terry family and some of the Hunter family of Jones' first wife Ann.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas, 16 June, PO Bryan, page 2, Hse/Fam #14
  Connally, J 45 M W Farmer $3560 Real Estate $240 Personal Estate b Georgia
  Connally, M 25 M [sic] W Keeping House b Georgia
  Connally, A 16 M W Laborer b Georgia
  Connally, J 12 M W b Georgia
  Connally, E 6 F W b Georgia
  Connally, A 1 F W b Georgia
  
  The son listed as A Connally would be Andrew and J is James.  These are the two sons of Ann Hunter, Jones' first wife.  Daughter E Connally would be Eddy, born after her father died,  Mary Ellen and Nat's daughter.  The last child, 1-year-old A Connally, would be Arizona, the first child Mary Ellen had with Jones.
  
  Mary Ellen was the second wife of Jones Connally, after his wife Ann C Hunter died.  Her first husband was his younger brother Nathaniel Edwin Connally.
  
  In his genealogy posted on Ancestry World Tree (http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigwills&id=I43141, no longer online), Johnny L Williams reports that Mary Ellen died at Eddy, McLennan, County, Texas.  Eddy is about 10 miles south of Waco, and is now called Bruceville-Eddy.  This is close to Lorena, which is about 5 miles from Waco on I-35.  Lorena is the town nearest to the place where my grandmother Julia Virginia Terry was born in 1880.  Julia Virginia's father Thomas Duncan  was a 1st cousin to Mary Ellen.
  
  1880 Federal Census, McLennan County, Texas, 15 June, Page 33A (scan p166A), District 111, Hse/Fam #201
  Connally, Jones W M 54 Farmer  GA TN GA
  Connally, Mary E  W F 36 Wife Keeping House  GA SC GA
  Connally, Arizona W F 12 Dau  At Home TX GA GA
  Connally, Amanda O  W F 9 Dau  TX GA GA
  Connally, Thomas T  W M 3 Dau  TX GA GA
  Connally, Bertha M  W F 6mos Dau  TX GA GA
  Connally, Eddie  W F 16 Step-Dau  At Home GA GA GA
  Connally, Margaret W F 60 Aunt Boarding TN GA GA
  Walker, Benjamin  B M16 Laborer TX MS MS
  
  Genealogist Johnny L Williams has gathered other census and related information on Jones Connally and family.  [Edited for form and clarity -- OBJ]
  
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  Moved to Brazos Co., Texas with Hunter in-laws in 1859
  
  1900 Census Falls Co., TX Page 339B, Blevins Precinct #8, ED 28 - Sh 9
  <Jones Connally s/o Thomas & Mary C. Jones Connally>
  Conaly, Jones Sep 1825 GA GA GA Married 32 years, Owns Home free of mortgage
  Conaly, Mary E. Aug 1844 GA GA GA (wife) 9 children, 7 living
  Conaly, Birth M. Nov 1879 TX GA GA (dau)
  Conaly, Olla E. May 1882 TX GA GA (dau)
  Conaly, Rosa D. Jul 1884 TX GA GA (son)
  Conaly, Mary L. Dec 1886 TX GA GA (son)
  
  1910 < Mary Ellen Terry Connally w/o Jones Connally s/o Thomas & Mary C. Jones Connally>
  
  1920 Census Falls Co., TX Page , Precinct 8, ED 89
  <Bertha M. Connally Moore d/o Jones & Mary Ellen Terry Connally>
  Moore, Floyd 43 TX TX TX Owns Home
  Moore, Bertha 39 TX GA GA (wife)
  Moore, Tom L TX TX LA (son)
  Moore, John TX TX LA (son)
  Connally, Mary E. 75 GA GA GA Widow, (mother in law)
  
  1930 Census Falls Co., TX Page , Precinct 8, ED - Sh , Eddy & Moore Villa Road, 22 Apr
  < Mary Ellen Terry Connally w/o Jones Connally s/o Thomas & Mary C. Jones Connally>
  Connally, M. E. 85 GA GA GA Widow, Married at age 17, Female, Owns home
  
  --  RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Descendants of Edward Williams Sr. of Spartanburg, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2850166&id=I43140
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  "Jones and Ann were married 18 Nov 1852 in Murray County, Georgia. Ann died in 1863, presumably while Jones was off to war in the 1st Texas Lancers. His younger brother Ned Connally died 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville (while Mary Ellen Terry Connally was carrying their daughter, Eddie, born the following September). Then the widower and widow got married in 1867, producing five daughters and a United States senator."
  --  James Jones, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 13 August 2017
  
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  Arizona is the really interesting one of all the senator's siblings. Seems to have married a vaquero, with whom she went into the boarding business.
  
  There is a "rest of the story" sticking in my mind from somewhere, which is that when Ann died, her distraught parents painted "GTT" [Gone to Texas] on their wagon and invited Jones to come along with them to Brazoria. Or was it the other way around?
  
  Had it not been for the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyenne, and the fact that dry-land farming was no good west of the 100th parallel, emigration to Texas might have depopulated the older, cottoned-out parts of Dixie worse than it did.
  --  James Jones, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 13 August 2017
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  Jones Connally
  Birth Sep 7, 1825
  Death Jan 11, 1902
  Spouse Mary Ellen Terry Connally (1844 - 1932)
  
  Children:
  Arizona Clements (1859 - ____)
  Amanda Connally Smith (1872 - 1946)
  Thomas Terry Connally (1877 - 1963)
  Bertha Connally Moore (1878 - 1963)
  Rose Connally Staton (1884 - 1946)
  Lila Connally McKay (1886 - 1967)
  
  Burial Eddy Cemetery, Falls County, Texas
  
  Created by couchpotato Aug 12, 2005
  
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #11522517, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11522517
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Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Johnny L Williams, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigwills&id=I43141
• 2. 1850 Federal Census, Murray County, Georgia
  • 17 October, Page 214 (427), Hse/Fam #s unreadable
• 3. 1880 Federal Census, McLennan County, Texas
  • 15 June, Page 33A (scan p) 166A, District 111, Hse/Fam #201
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. 1870 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
  • 16 June, PO Bryan, page 2, Hse/Fam #14
• 6. RootsWeb Trees
• 7. Ancestry Messaging
• 8. Georgia, Marriage Records From Select Counties, 1828-1978
• 9. Ancestry Trees
  • Johnny L Williams, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bigwills&id=I43140
• 10. FamilySearch Trees
• 11. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v133t0575&id=I1176&ftm=1
• 12. 1930 Federal Census, Falls County, Texas
  • 9 April, Marlin City Ward 1, District 1, page 10A, 530 Chambers St, Hse/Fam #209
• 13. Obituary of Thomas Terry Connally, 1963
• 14. Library of Congress
• 15. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982