History And Genealogy Of The Jones And Brooks Families Of Escambia County Alabama

Thomas Armstrong Jones (1841-1917) was the son of Lewis Jones, Jr., (1812-1853) and Rachel Isabella Williams (1812-1853). He served in the Civil War from Alabama. In 1866, he married Serena Ann Wright (1842-1915) and they had at least twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived throughout the South.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

John Ziba Hardee (ca. 1782-1862) moved from North Carolina to Georgia and then to Alabama, married twice (once in Georgia), and then moved to Van Zandt County, Texas. Descendants and relatives lived in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Iowa, Califor- nia, New Mexico and elsewhere.

Thomas Brooks (d.1667) immigrated in 1631 from England to Watertown, Massachusetts, moving to Concord, Massachusetts in 1637, and to land near Medford, Massachusetts in 1667. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina and elsewhere. Includes a brief history of the founders and subsequent president-generals, 1890-1977, of the national organization of Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the two schools owned by the DAR (Kate Duncan Smith School on Gunter Mountain in Alabama, and Tamassee DAR School in South Carolina).