Not far above Stony Point is another very old house known to all older residents of the community and to those familiar with the community as the “White Jones Place”. The house, a story and half affair in the old style, with very small windows in the upper story, has a chimney so well cemented on the outside that it stands out like a sort of lighthouse and at a distance seems to be without a crack in its surface though not far from 100 years old, if not exactly that old.
The real name of its builder, “White” Jones, was William Wightman Jones and he was a son of Robert Y Jones, who at one time lived near the present home of E M Joyce. Robert Y Jones was one of the sons of the first family to locate here at the time after the Revolution.
The first name of the first of this Jones family is not known but family tradition is that he and a close friend Gray came to this section and bought lands slightly northwest of Greenwood. The late Tom D Jones, a great-grandson of the first Jones said the family tradition was that Jones was a native of Scotland and Gray was a native of England. Gray built the very old and quaint house on the Greenwood-Abbeville Road about two miles from Greenwood. The place, noted for its very broad chimney and quaint little windows, was long owned by Tom D Jones and is now owned by Joseph A Anderson.
Immediately back of the tomb of Henry Gray is that of James Y Jones, son of the first settler, bought from John McGehee in the year 1829 all of the site of the first Village of Greenwood, a plantation of some five or six hundred acres of land.
JAMES Y JONES (Aug 22, 1794 – Feb 23, 1849) son of the Pioneer ____Jones who settled here with his friend Henry Gray after the Revolution, was the first real estate developer in what is now the City of Greenwood.
James Y Jones, bought from John McGehee a tract of land which included all of the first village of Greenwood in the year 1829. McGehee, who was of Virginia parentage, had a brother Carr McGehee whose home place “Plain Dealing” was back of the present home place of A Boulware Sample. John McGehee wanted to remove to Florida and sold his place to James Y Jones.
(A family bible of James Y Jones shows) James Y Jones was born Aug 22, 1794 and died Feb 23, 1848. married Elizabeth (full maiden name not known). She was born July 27, 1790. and they had several children, including Robert (buried in Andrew Chapel Cemetery) and Nancy who married Benjamin F Roberts, one of the early merchants of Greenwood.
Judge John McGehee built the house bought by James Y Jones. It was a double log house, a story and half high, built with a wide hall and piazza in front, and two rooms in the rear. All the rooms were neatly celled and whitewashed inside. There was a barn and a stable and a double log cabin for servants and a nice bath house nearby on the branch. It was dug down three or four feet below the surface of the branch, and closely walled up ten feet high, eight by ten feet wide, with a plank floor and steps to go down into the water which was three feet deep. The branch was continually running through the house with an outlet into the branch again on the outside. This kept the water always fresh and clear.
The real name of its builder, “White” Jones, was William Wightman Jones and he was a son of Robert Y Jones, who at one time lived near the present home of E M Joyce. Robert Y Jones was one of the sons of the first family to locate here at the time after the Revolution.
The first name of the first of this Jones family is not known but family tradition is that he and a close friend Gray came to this section and bought lands slightly northwest of Greenwood. The late Tom D Jones, a great-grandson of the first Jones said the family tradition was that Jones was a native of Scotland and Gray was a native of England. Gray built the very old and quaint house on the Greenwood-Abbeville Road about two miles from Greenwood. The place, noted for its very broad chimney and quaint little windows, was long owned by Tom D Jones and is now owned by Joseph A Anderson.
Immediately back of the tomb of Henry Gray is that of James Y Jones, son of the first settler, bought from John McGehee in the year 1829 all of the site of the first Village of Greenwood, a plantation of some five or six hundred acres of land.
JAMES Y JONES (Aug 22, 1794 – Feb 23, 1849) son of the Pioneer ____Jones who settled here with his friend Henry Gray after the Revolution, was the first real estate developer in what is now the City of Greenwood.
James Y Jones, bought from John McGehee a tract of land which included all of the first village of Greenwood in the year 1829. McGehee, who was of Virginia parentage, had a brother Carr McGehee whose home place “Plain Dealing” was back of the present home place of A Boulware Sample. John McGehee wanted to remove to Florida and sold his place to James Y Jones.
(A family bible of James Y Jones shows) James Y Jones was born Aug 22, 1794 and died Feb 23, 1848. married Elizabeth (full maiden name not known). She was born July 27, 1790. and they had several children, including Robert (buried in Andrew Chapel Cemetery) and Nancy who married Benjamin F Roberts, one of the early merchants of Greenwood.
Judge John McGehee built the house bought by James Y Jones. It was a double log house, a story and half high, built with a wide hall and piazza in front, and two rooms in the rear. All the rooms were neatly celled and whitewashed inside. There was a barn and a stable and a double log cabin for servants and a nice bath house nearby on the branch. It was dug down three or four feet below the surface of the branch, and closely walled up ten feet high, eight by ten feet wide, with a plank floor and steps to go down into the water which was three feet deep. The branch was continually running through the house with an outlet into the branch again on the outside. This kept the water always fresh and clear.
Not far above Stony Point is another very old house known to all older residents of the community and to those familiar with the community as the “White Jones Place”. The house, a story and half affair in the old style, with very small windows in the upper story, has a chimney so well cemented on the outside that it stands out like a sort of lighthouse and at a distance seems to be without a crack in its surface though not far from 100 years old, if not exactly that old.
The real name of its builder, “White” Jones, was William Wightman Jones and he was a son of Robert Y Jones, who at one time lived near the present home of E M Joyce. Robert Y Jones was one of the sons of the first family to locate here at the time after the Revolution.
The first name of the first of this Jones family is not known but family tradition is that he and a close friend Gray came to this section and bought lands slightly northwest of Greenwood. The late Tom D Jones, a great-grandson of the first Jones said the family tradition was that Jones was a native of Scotland and Gray was a native of England. Gray built the very old and quaint house on the Greenwood-Abbeville Road about two miles from Greenwood. The place, noted for its very broad chimney and quaint little windows, was long owned by Tom D Jones and is now owned by Joseph A Anderson.
Immediately back of the tomb of Henry Gray is that of James Y Jones, son of the first settler, bought from John McGehee in the year 1829 all of the site of the first Village of Greenwood, a plantation of some five or six hundred acres of land.
JAMES Y JONES (Aug 22, 1794 – Feb 23, 1849) son of the Pioneer ____Jones who settled here with his friend Henry Gray after the Revolution, was the first real estate developer in what is now the City of Greenwood.
James Y Jones, bought from John McGehee a tract of land which included all of the first village of Greenwood in the year 1829. McGehee, who was of Virginia parentage, had a brother Carr McGehee whose home place “Plain Dealing” was back of the present home place of A Boulware Sample. John McGehee wanted to remove to Florida and sold his place to James Y Jones.
(A family bible of James Y Jones shows) James Y Jones was born Aug 22, 1794 and died Feb 23, 1848. married Elizabeth (full maiden name not known). She was born July 27, 1790. and they had several children, including Robert (buried in Andrew Chapel Cemetery) and Nancy who married Benjamin F Roberts, one of the early merchants of Greenwood.
Judge John McGehee built the house bought by James Y Jones. It was a double log house, a story and half high, built with a wide hall and piazza in front, and two rooms in the rear. All the rooms were neatly celled and whitewashed inside. There was a barn and a stable and a double log cabin for servants and a nice bath house nearby on the branch. It was dug down three or four feet below the surface of the branch, and closely walled up ten feet high, eight by ten feet wide, with a plank floor and steps to go down into the water which was three feet deep. The branch was continually running through the house with an outlet into the branch again on the outside. This kept the water always fresh and clear.
The real name of its builder, “White” Jones, was William Wightman Jones and he was a son of Robert Y Jones, who at one time lived near the present home of E M Joyce. Robert Y Jones was one of the sons of the first family to locate here at the time after the Revolution.
The first name of the first of this Jones family is not known but family tradition is that he and a close friend Gray came to this section and bought lands slightly northwest of Greenwood. The late Tom D Jones, a great-grandson of the first Jones said the family tradition was that Jones was a native of Scotland and Gray was a native of England. Gray built the very old and quaint house on the Greenwood-Abbeville Road about two miles from Greenwood. The place, noted for its very broad chimney and quaint little windows, was long owned by Tom D Jones and is now owned by Joseph A Anderson.
Immediately back of the tomb of Henry Gray is that of James Y Jones, son of the first settler, bought from John McGehee in the year 1829 all of the site of the first Village of Greenwood, a plantation of some five or six hundred acres of land.
JAMES Y JONES (Aug 22, 1794 – Feb 23, 1849) son of the Pioneer ____Jones who settled here with his friend Henry Gray after the Revolution, was the first real estate developer in what is now the City of Greenwood.
James Y Jones, bought from John McGehee a tract of land which included all of the first village of Greenwood in the year 1829. McGehee, who was of Virginia parentage, had a brother Carr McGehee whose home place “Plain Dealing” was back of the present home place of A Boulware Sample. John McGehee wanted to remove to Florida and sold his place to James Y Jones.
(A family bible of James Y Jones shows) James Y Jones was born Aug 22, 1794 and died Feb 23, 1848. married Elizabeth (full maiden name not known). She was born July 27, 1790. and they had several children, including Robert (buried in Andrew Chapel Cemetery) and Nancy who married Benjamin F Roberts, one of the early merchants of Greenwood.
Judge John McGehee built the house bought by James Y Jones. It was a double log house, a story and half high, built with a wide hall and piazza in front, and two rooms in the rear. All the rooms were neatly celled and whitewashed inside. There was a barn and a stable and a double log cabin for servants and a nice bath house nearby on the branch. It was dug down three or four feet below the surface of the branch, and closely walled up ten feet high, eight by ten feet wide, with a plank floor and steps to go down into the water which was three feet deep. The branch was continually running through the house with an outlet into the branch again on the outside. This kept the water always fresh and clear.
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