Augustus Harris JONES
Internet IGI (Mar 2006)
1860 Census Gonzales County, Texas Roll 653_1295, p. 94
Newfamilysearch.org, Sep 2009
One World Tree
Ancestry.com
1850 Census - Peach Creek, Gonzales, Texas, Roll M432_910, p. 325, Image 629
1870 Census - Precinct 3, Gonzales, TX, Roll M593_1587, p. 464, Image 321
In Texas in 1835, and among the body of armed volunteers who took control of Goliad in the fall of 1835. Took part in the siege and Battle of San Antonio de Bexar in December 1835. A close and trusted friend of Col. James Fannin. Became Brig. General in the Texas Mlitia and fought with Zachary Taylor in the war with Mexico, 1846-48.
According to his son, he was murdered in or near Medina, Bandera County, Texas (note in Ancestry.com)
He married Anne Roseanna Randle 8 Oct 1839 at Jackson, Georgia . Anne Roseanna Randle was born at Dallas, Alabama 1824 daughter of Willis Randle and Tabitha C. Huckaby .
They were the parents of 7
children:
William Early Jones
born 25 Apr 1841.
Laura Jones
born 1 Oct 1843.
Emily Jones
born 15 May 1845.
James Cunningham Jones
born 21 Jul 1846.
Sophia Ann Jones
born 7 Sep 1848.
Augustus Harris Jones
born 25 May 1850.
Charles Randle Jones
born 7 Dec 1851.
Augustus Harris Jones died 10 Apr 1877 at Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas .
Anne Roseanna Randle died 21 Dec 1851 at Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas .