* Lawrence Batts Jones

• Lawrence Batts Jones M V K Y Photo: Born: Married: Died: Wounded as scout and died.[2209] Obituary: Children: Parents and Siblings: Other Family: Stories, Letters & Biographies: CSR: “Lawrence Bates Jones”; enlisted 1 March 1863; AWOL July 1863; detached service January to February 1864; absent April 1864 sick. Additional Information:

Strother Seth Jones N E M V R C P B T K Y Photo: “Strother Seth Jones”, 1890 Reunion Photo. Hardcopy is in Source Binder. Not Scanned. Born: 5 May 1831,[2210] Culpeper County.[2211] 5 April 1831.[2212] 6 April 1831.[2213] Married: “Married May 22, 1851, [at Mt. Airy, in Fauquier[2214]] Lucy Virginia Stewart, by the Reverend Cumberland George.[2215] His wife “Lucie Virginia Stewart died at her home [in Portsmouth] of diphtheria” on 21 December 1881.[2216] “Lucy V. Stewart/ wife of/ S. S. Jones/ May 13, 1823/ Oct. 9, 1883”, is buried beside Strother S. Jones.[2217] Lucy Stewart, daughter of Joseph O. Stewart and Susannah Muse Payne, married “Strother Jones and had 3 children, among them Elizabeth, who m. Arthur Hart of Fq. Co.” **Need a source for her father’s middle name being Oscar. Try Bibles. Died: In Fauquier,[2218] 12 October 1916, and buried at Warrenton Cemetery.[2219] His grave displays a C. S. A. marker.[2220] Mr. and Mrs. Strother Jones’s markers face, diagonally across a pathway, the markers of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hart [BH].[2221] Died 12 November 1916.[2222] Obituary: “Mr. S. S. Jones was paralysed … at the home of his son-in-law Arthur M. Hart.”[2223] “His kind heart, liberality, and congenial nature won for him the esteem of both officers and comrades, and as a true soldier and companion, [none were] held in higher estimation. ”[2224] See Obituary Chapter. Another may be found in Confederate Veteran, volume 25, page 173.[2225] Children: His daughters were “Miss Mary Jones,” and Mrs. A. M. Hart.[2226] He had three daughters: Susan Payne Jones, who married in Portsmouth; Mary Lavinia Stewart Jones, who did not marry; another daughter who married in Fauquier into the family of Robert Allison Hart [BH].[2227] His oldest daughter was Bettie Farish Jones (1852–1947). “Nine years old at the outbreak of the Civil War, … [s]he could recount with fire in her sparkling brown eyes, but without bitterness or malice, the events of the war years and Reconstruction days. … She … said, “I remember the blasted Yankees camping on our lawn, which overlooked the Rappahannock River. I remember their trading coffee and sugar for tobacco with the men of our army camped on the other side of the river”. Bettie married Arthur Maxwell Hart (?–1920) in 1871. They had seven children. Susan Payne Jones (1854–1909) married Matthew James Matthews of Portsmouth … . … [S]he, like her sisters …, was educated by their father, a well-educated, cultured gentleman, who at one time taught a private school. They had three children. Mary Lavenia Stewart Jones (1856–1944) … spent the major portion of her life at her father’s home in Fauquier County. In later years she held several positions as a seamstress and did remarkably fine work. …[Then, she] visited for some years among her relatives… .” She never married, and passed away in Portsmouth.[2228] [NOTE:Need Hart family bible conclusively connect Arthur Hart with Robt. Hart.] Parents and Siblings: Elizabeth (Farish) (1801–1882) and William Wigginton Jones (1795–1835) wed on 31 October 1822 at Prospect Hill in Orange County, “Reverend John Churchill Gordon” officiating. He served in the War of 1812; she received “a pension for his service until her death.” Both are buried at Greenfields.[2229] William Wigginton Jones (20 August 1795–11 March 1835) was father to seven siblings: John William (26 September 1823–1902); Robert Henry (27 October 1825–1862); Thomas Wigginton (28 November 1827–November 1901); James Farish (8 November 1829–26 April 1864); Strother Seth [BH] (6 April 1831–12 November 1916); Gabriel Scott (27 January 1833–23 March 1899); Mildred Jane (14 October 1834–February 1894).[2230] Other Family: His maternal grandparents were Mildred Dawson and Thomas Farish.[2231] His paternal grandparents were Jane Wigginton (1769–1857) and Gabriel Jones III (1768–1835). Jane was daughter of John Wigginton of “Greenfields.”[2232] Strother’s wife, Lucy, was one of four children of Joseph O. Stewart (c.1778—1830) and his second wife, Susannah Muse Payne (1798—1878); she also had two half-brothers through her father’s first marriage to Clarissa Duerson. Her parents “resided at “Retirement”, near “Bleak Hill” and Brandy Station.” Lucy’s sister and one of her full brothers married a brother and sister, Marshall and Harriet Keith.[2233] Lucy Stewart’s parents “resided at “Retirement”, near “Bleak Hill” and Brandy Station”, in Culpeper County.[2234] Her maternal grandparents were Richard Payne and Mary Major; see A. D. Payne [BH] for more about Richard. Through her Payne connections, Strother’s wife was cousin to several Black Horsemen.[2235] The following regards Strother’s daughter, Mary. “After visiting Mrs. R. H. Curtis and other friends, Miss Mary Jones left this week for Manassas, where she will be the guest of her niece, Mrs. Covington, and later go to Washington to spend the winter. For the past three years, Miss Jones has been the constant companion of her father, Mr. Strother Jones, who recently died at the home of his son-in-law, Mr. A. M. Hart.”[2236] Strother’s daughter Susan Payne Jones is not buried at the Jones-Hart plot at the Warrenton Cemetery, but several other markers give clues to Strother’s family. “Mary L. Jones/ Sept. 4, 1856/ June 4, 1944” is the daughter who cared for him in his later years. “Arthur M. Hart/ Feb. 14, 1847/ Jan. 22, 1920”, might have been married to “Bettie Farish Hart/ Feb. 22, 1852/ April 24, 1947”, who might have been Strother and Lucy’s daughter. Strother’s son-in-law Arthur is buried beside Bettie. Beside Arthur are “Susie Wyer Hart/ Feb. 17, 1883/ Nov. 4, 1946” and “Bessie Hart Smith/ Jan. 3, 1886/ Nov. 25, 1963”. Susie and Bessie might have been Bettie’s daughters. Presumably, Bessie married a Mr. Smith. “Strother Jones Hart/ May 4, 1889/ May 14, 1975”, could have been a son of Bettie and Arthur. “Alice Mason Hart/ July 30, 1895/ May 20, 1965” might have been married to Strother’s namesake grandson, and “Jane Mason Hart/ Nov. 17, 1919/ Dec. 16, 1935”—who passed one month after her sixteenth birthday—possibly was Alice and Strother Hart’s daughter, Strother S. Jones’s great-granddaughter. Stories, Letters & Biographies: “I saw John Brown hung, was at the surrender at Appomattox, was in the first & second battle of Bull run, on the Peninsula at Williamsburg, at the seven days fight…”[2237] See Stories Chapter. “One of the duties we were called upon to perform was to get up all the scattering firearms…”[2238] See Stories Chapter. “Strother Jones was a farmer in Fauquier County. At one time he taught school…”[2239] See Biographies Chapter. Mentioned in Robert Allison Hart’s obituary. See Obituary Chapter. CSR: 5’11”, florid complexion, grey hair, hazel eyes; enlisted 25 April 1861; Bugler; Ordinance Sgt. March 1863; horse killed; paid $3000; paroled 4 May 1865 Clarksburg. Additional Information: Listed as “S. Jones.”[2240] Sergeant of Ordinance, Bugler.[2241] Resided in Norfolk during mid-1870s.[2242] Strother S. Jones resided “near Warrenton” in the “County of Fauquier” on 26 May 1902, at age 71. He was born in Culpeper and resided in Virginia all of his life. He lived in Fauquier since 1850; was a farmer. He applied for a pension when he was disabled by “Rhumatism and old age.” He refered to R. A. Hart, C. E. Holtzclaw, Hugh Hamilton, and E. H. McDonald to attest to his military service.[2243] Strother was an active pallbearer at the 1909 funeral of Robert Allison Hart.[2244]