1. Ann was named for her grandmother.
1. John T. Webb had been married prior to his marriage to Leona.
1. Clinton Swalley, gggggrandson of John Rice Jones reports place of birth as Vincennes, Knox, Indiana.
2. John and Stephen F. Austin were boyhood friends in Missouri where their fathers were partners in a lead mining operation.
3. John served in the U. S. Army during the War of 1812; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence;
4. When that partnership was disolved, the Jones family moved to St. Louis. He came to Texas in 1831. He
lived for a time at San Felipe and in October 1835, joined the Texas Army. His military service was short, however.5. On 11 Dec 1835 he was elected Postmaster General by the General Council. He held the position until 22 Dec 1836, when he was succeeded by Robert Barr. He was reappointed Postmaster General by Mirabeau B. Lamar on 14 Dec 1839, and served throughout his term.
6. John died at his home, Fairland Farm, on Cummins Creek, Fayette County, Texas.
1. He came to Texas in 1831 with his father and lived with his family at Fairland Farm in Fayette County and at Spanish Camp in Wharton County, Texas.
2. On April 25, 1843, he left with his Uncle Meyer F. Jones from Georgetown as a member of the Snively Expedition. When the expedition was captured by a detachment of the United States Army on the Arkansas River, he and some other members of the party, returned to Texas via St. Louis, where he arrived about September 20, 1843.
3. He was a clerk in the General Land Office at the time of his death on August 21, 1850. (Southwestern Hisorical Quarterly, XXXV (1931-1932); Texas State Gazette, August 31, 1850. [Another source gives date of death of 31 Aug 1843]