An
OKGenWeb Project
An
OKGenWeb Project
Contributed by: Ilene Jones
E-mail: JonesieOK@wmconnect.com
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Brothers: George and John
Jones
Idabel, McCurtain County, OK
George Washington Jones and John Benjamin Jones, sons of Andrew Jackson Jones and Charlotte Garroutte. Lived in Idabel, McCurtain County, OK. Worked in the coal mines. George Washington Jones born September 28, 1859, died February 28, 1925 at Idabel. He married first Ebbie Louisa Thomas and then Littie Tuska, who was a full-blood Choctaw. Family says he was adopted into the Choctaw tribe. John Benjamin was born October 15, 1871, died 1922, buried Redfork cemetery near Idabel. He married Juliana Cook and/or Julia Justice. --More accurate date of photograph may be about 1887. --Ilene Jones
