Notes for: James Morris Jones

After the death of their mother when they were aged two and one, respectively, James Morris Jones and his brother Howard were reared in the home of their grandfather, Samuel Morris Gaston, and his second wife Rebecca Jane Furner Gaston. James spent four years in the Navy before getting married. He and family resided in Castleberry, Alabama from 1927 to 1930, then returned to West Virginia. During WW II, he and his wife moved to Baltimore, where he worked in the shipyards and she at an airplane factory. They returned to West Virginia only to have their home washed away by the great flood of 1950.