Jones Family Cemetery
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Jones Family Cemetery

Also known as Holliday Lake Cemetery

Appomattox, Appomattox County, Virginia, USA

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Behind the concession/bathhouse there is a small family Cemetery which is fenced. There is a plaque that details the family with "These three sets of head and foot stones are that of the Jones family Cemetery. William A. Jones, a Welsh coal miner from the British Isles, brought his family to Holy Day Creek in 1837 where they established a gold mine registered as Appomattox 1. The gold mine and the Jones family prospered, and by the Census of 1850, the land and house were valued at $64,000. While the average household valuation was only $4,000.
According to the Census in 1850 the Jones family numbered ten. William, his wife Carolyn and their eight children, Isabella, Hannah, Victoria, Crawford, Faith, Lucy, Carolyn, and William Jr. From that point some great and unknown misfortune must have struck the Jones family, By the Census of 1860, only Mrs. Jones, and her youngest child William were still living, perhaps an epidemic, or a series of unfortunate accidents struck or maybe it was the result simply of the hard life lived by rural fold at that time."
Behind the concession/bathhouse there is a small family Cemetery which is fenced. There is a plaque that details the family with "These three sets of head and foot stones are that of the Jones family Cemetery. William A. Jones, a Welsh coal miner from the British Isles, brought his family to Holy Day Creek in 1837 where they established a gold mine registered as Appomattox 1. The gold mine and the Jones family prospered, and by the Census of 1850, the land and house were valued at $64,000. While the average household valuation was only $4,000.
According to the Census in 1850 the Jones family numbered ten. William, his wife Carolyn and their eight children, Isabella, Hannah, Victoria, Crawford, Faith, Lucy, Carolyn, and William Jr. From that point some great and unknown misfortune must have struck the Jones family, By the Census of 1860, only Mrs. Jones, and her youngest child William were still living, perhaps an epidemic, or a series of unfortunate accidents struck or maybe it was the result simply of the hard life lived by rural fold at that time."

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  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2665722