Her full name is Priscilla Jones Stokes Lay. Birth and death are from two family bibles. She married Thomas Stokes Feb. 7, 1856. He died as a results of sickness during the Civil War. She married James B.Lay Mar. 28,1865. The marriage dates come from marriage certificates from the state of Illinois.

Children:

James W. Stokes Jun. 31,1857-Oct.10,1858.

Volney R. Stokes May 3,1859-Sep. 9,1865.

Herschel Jason Stokes

Mary Elizabeth Lay

John W. Lay

Emma C. Lay Feb.4,1872-Aug. 20,1873.

Charles Henry Lay

Minnie Lay

Lucy V. Lay Apr. 13, 1868-Nov.20,1868.

Infant May 25,1882-May 25,1882.

(The cemetery name is listed as the people physically in charge of the cemetery wish it to be listed.)

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Italicized items added by submitter for convenience.

JONES, HASK1NS, was born in Maryland, and married in Jefferson county, Tenn., to Lucy Tolley, and came to Sangamon county, in 1835, settling in Sand Prairie, five miles east of Rochester. They had thirteen children:

~~JOHN F., married Lucinda Pike and died, leaving one child, CHARLES T.

~~ELIZABETH, married John L. Firey. See his name. - FIREY, JOHN L., born Oct. 16, 1829, in Maryland, married April 27, 1854, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Jones. He died Jan. 29, 1872, in Rochester, leaving a widow and one son, JAMES M.

~~DAVID C., married Ann Griffith and lives near Breckenridge, Ill.

~~NANCY, married James Campbell, and lives in Edinburg, Ill.

~~MARY P., married John B. Eaton. See his name. - EATON, JOHN B., born Dec. 15, 1827, in Bradford, N. H., married in Sangamon county June 16, 1853, to Mary P. Jones, a native of Tennessee. They had ten children. SUSIE died young. MARY J., married Thomas Lee. See his name with the Conant family. WILLIAM W., ANTIONETTE and ANTHONY--twins--CHARLEY, JESSIE, MAY, GRIFFITH and DAISY; the eight latter live with their parents. J. B. Eaton lived in Springfield from 1839 to 1854, when he moved to Christian county, and came back to Springfield in 1866. He is now farming and grain dealing at Edinburg, but resides in Springfield.

~~CARTER T., born Aug. 17, 1834, in Jefferson county, Tenn., married in Sangamon county, April 23, 1863, to Theresa Talbert, has four children, FANNY, LUCY, BETTY and CARTER T., Jun., and lives four miles south of Rochester, Illinois.

~~HASKINS, Jun., married Lettie Sweet, who died, and he married again, and lives near Breckenridge, Illinois.

~~LUCY J., married John H. Martin, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.

~~PRISCILLA, married Thomas Stokes. See his name. He died and she married James Lay, and lives in Kansas. - STOKES, THOMAS, born Nov. 4, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Priscilla Jones. They had three children, two of whom died young. Thomas Stokes enlisted August, 1862, in Co. E, 114th Ill. Inf., was taken sick at Camp Butler, conveyed home, and died Oct. 28, 1862. His son, HERSCHEL V., resides with his mother, who is now the wife of James Layard (Lay). They reside near Sunny Side, Montgomery county, Kansas.

Haskins Jones died in 1842, and his widow died April, 1873, in Sangamon, and she in Christian county, Illinois.

~~RESOURCE~~ Page 21 - History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois "Centennial Record" by John Carroll Power - https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_the_Early_Settlers_of_Sangamo/lkgWAAAAYAAJ?hl=en

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