Genealogy Record For
Charles Jones - (Mark's 7th Cousin, 4x removed)

Charles Randle Jones (12/07/1851-12/24/1881)
  • Spouse: (Maggie) Sara Margaret Cobb (Lowe) (1858-1894)
  • Children:
    1. Daughter: Margaret Lula Jones (Brady) (02/01/1880-10/25/1977)
  • Parents
    1. Father: Captain Augustus Harris Jones, Sr. (1812-04/10/1877)
    2. Mother: Ann Roseanna Randle (Jones) (1824-1851)
  • Siblings
    1. Brother: Captain William Earl Jones (15 APR 1842 - 1 MAR 1900) B:Gonzales County, Texas, D:Bandera Co., Texas; Marriage to 1) Augusta C. Rector (? - 1894), and then married 2) Emma Menefree and they had two children (Burial at cemetery with father)
    2. Sister: Laura Jones (1 OCT 1843 - 10 JUL 1844) B&D:Gonzales County, Texas - Infant)
    3. Sister: Emily Jones (15 MAY 1845 - 18 JUN 1845) B&D:Gonzales County, Texas - Infant)
    4. Brother: James Cunningham Jones (21 JUL 1846 -  9 JUN 1882) B&D:Gonzales County, Texas; Marriage to Alice V Hollingsworth (1851-?) and they had 3 children (Burial at cemetery with father)
    5. Sister: Sophie Ann Jones (Allen) (7 SEP 1848 - 14 OCT 1936) B:Gonzales County, Gonzales Co., Texas, Married Lewis Buckner Allen (1847-1911) on 11 JAN 1870 in Gonzales Co., Texas, and they had 11 children (Sophie is buried at Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas)
    6. Brother: Augustus Harris Jones, Jr. (25 MAY 1850 - JUN 1852) B&D:Gonzales County, Texas - infant)
    7. Sister: (Addie) Adeline Lewis Jones (1857 - ?)
    8. Sister: Susan Jones (? - ?)
    9. Sister: Augusta Harris Jones, Jr. (1859 - 7 Apr 1913) B:Gonzales, Gonzales Co., Texas; D:San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas)
    10. Sister: Zula Lee Jones (1863 - 1954)
    11. Sister: Kate Lynch Jones (25 Sep 1865 - 16 Jan 1941) B:Gonzales County, Texas; D:Gonzales County, Texas, USA)
Charles's Personal Information
Born in Gonzales County, Texas (TX), USA on Sunday, December 7, 1851
Died in Unknown City/Co., New Mexico (NM), USA on Saturday, December 24, 1881 (Age 30)
Cemetery: Unknown
Marriage to:
    (Maggie) Sara Margaret Cobb (Lowe) (1858-1894) on Wednesday, December 20, 1876 (Age 25)
     - in Unknown City/Co., Texas (TX), USA
Comments: About the death of Charles (From Candice DuCoin)

I've done a lot of meandering around on the internet trying to find Charles and what I have found is that there was a Charles Jones in the 9th Calvary as a Private in Company L, Regiment 9 who was buried at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas (which is not too far from San Miguel, Dona Ana County, N.M.) on December 9, 1881. That information is from the "U.S. Burial Registers, Military Posts and National Cemetery". Also according to the "U.S. Registers of Death in the Regular Army, 1860-1889" there was a Charles Jones who died April 23, 1883 from chronic alcoholism and albuminuria and was buried at the National Cemetery in Fort Stanton, N.M. on April 24, 1883. He was a Private in Company D. 4th Regiment U.S. Calvary. Then it goes on to mention he was disinterred to the Santa Fe Nat'l Cemetery in N.M., grave 570, Section B. according to U.S. Veterans Gravesites 1775-2006.

This is not to say that any of these burials are Charles Randle Jones from Gonzales, Texas but the dates are around the time he went missing. His only daughter, Lula Margaret, was born Feb. 1880 and by 1883 Charles' wife, Sarah Margaret Cobb Jones, had already remarried so they must have known he wasn't coming back. The story my family has always heard is that he left to go on a cattle drive to New Mexico and never returned.  But there was something mysterious about why Charles left and his not returning. My father, Paul Hubert DuCoin, was raised by his grandmother, Lula Margaret Jones Brady, who was Charles' only offspring. She was a proud religious southern Baptist woman and any time my father would ask her anything about the disappearance she responded with "oh, we don't talk about that."

Source: Melanie DuCoin and 
Texas A and M University Document and
Julian Jone's Rootsweb Site and
Jesse Lawrence's Rootsweb site and
Find A Grave entry for Charles Randle Jones and
Find A Grave entry for Lula J Brady Child 1
Ancestry.com for Charles Randle Jones
Family Lines: Charles is listed in the following family line report: Washington

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