Per oral history as related by Harriette Anne Jones [1886-1991]: Her father Frank's youngest brother, Charlie, had been in prison for unknowingly committing a crime. Charles was about 18 years old and had moved to St. Louis from Callaway County, Missouri, to get away from home because his stepmother was making life quite miserable for all of the children. He had taken a job as a messenger boy, but was arrested later when it was discovered that he had been transporting counterfeit money for his bosses. He never knew what was in the packages and never asked. He did not know he had been doing anything illegal. He served one year in prison. Brother Frank visited him in prison occasionally and told Charlie that he would ride in on horseback and pick him up on the day he was to be released and bring Charlie home to live with him if Charlie would write and let him know what date that would be. But the message got delayed in the mail and Frank showed up at the prison a day late and Charles was already gone--never to be heard from again. Frank deeply regretted the incident and never got over it the rest of his life. The boys' father, David, had basically disowned Charlie because of the shame brought to the family by the prison ordeal, and the other family members felt the same except for Frank who wanted to help him get on with his life.

His next older brother had been known in the 1860 and 1870 U.S. Federal Census listings as "William C. Jones" born approximately 1855 between his two sisters, Emma and Sarah Elizabeth Jones. Oral history per Harriette Anne Jones states that William left Missouri to go into the mining business in California. This is where we lose track of "William C. Jones" because he began calling himself, "Charles William (C.W.) Jones" once he got to California where he was in mining for awhile but eventually became a farmer.

The youngest Jones son, Charles M. Jones, never communicated with his family again upon leaving prison so whatever happened to him has never been confirmed.