Helena Mar Hill is my third great-grandmother. She was Papa Jones mother. She was born in Wilson, Tennessee on February 8, 1841. Her passed when she was just a young girl. Her Mother, Levicey Donnell McMinn remarried and Helena was raised by her mother and step-dad, John "Jack" Bone. Jack died in 1838 at a fairly young age of forty-two. Sometime after that, Levicey brought her family from Tennessee to Nacogdoches, Texas. I would love to know the story of twice-widowed Levicey and how she brought her children to Nacogdoches from Tennessee.
At age sixteen, Helena married George Washington Jones on June 4, 1857 in Douglass, Texas. She and G.W. Jones had eight children. She and G.W. settled on a farm in Wise County, Texas and raised their family.
In her later years, she was known as "little Grandma" due to her small size. After the death of her beloved husband, she moved to Waco, Texas and lived with her daughter, Mary Jones-Ewing. Little Grandma died on November 16, 1899 in Waco. She is buried in Crawford, Texas.
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| Helena Mar Hill-Jones- Aka "Little Grandma" |
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