Virginia Franklyn Jones
c. 1814–
Life
- Born
- about 1814 · Virginia
Parents
Marriage & children
John Minor (c. 1830–)
Ann Elizabeth Minor (c. 1833–1899)
Ada Minor (c. 1835–)
Virginia Minor (c. 1838–)
Malvina Crutchfield Minor (c. 1840–)
Fanny Minor (c. 1844–)
Mariah Minor (c. 1845–)
Hermand Minor (c. 1848–)
Thomas Minor (c. 1850–)
Herbert Minor (1860–1920)
Timeline
- 20 Dec 1828MarriedDr. Thomas Jefferson Minor — Essex County, Virginia
- 15 Oct 1838ResidenceEssex, Virginia, USA — Midway
- 1850ResidenceEssex, Virginia, USA
Records behind this page
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Deed Book 46 (1838-1840), images 94-95
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"This Indenture made this 15th day of October 1838 between JOHN JONES of the County of Essex and State of Virginia of the one part and JEFFERSON MINOR and VIRGINIA his wife of same County and State of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Jones in Consideration of the INTERMARRIAGE of the said Jefferson Minor with his said Wife VIRGINIA THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAID JOHN JONES and in the further consideration of the natural love and affection which the said Jones ha[s] for HIS SAID DAUGHTER, and the further sum of five Dollars ... [conveys] a certain tracts or parcels of Land situate lying and being in the Counties of King & Queen & Essex containing by recent Survey three hundred fifty five acres more or less and adjoining the lands of THOMAS WRIGHT SENR ... and is the same tract or parcels of land upon which the said Minor and Wife AT PRESENT RESIDE, called and known by the name of MIDWAY and formerly called JONES [ORDINARY] ... In Witness whereof the said John Jones has hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal ... JOHN JONES ... At a Court begun and held for Essex County ... the 31st Day of January 1839. This Deed was this day acknowledged in Court by John Jones to be his act and deed and Ordered to be Recorded." ◎ THIS IS THE DOCUMENT THAT SOURCES [2123] VIRGINIA FRANKLYN JONES TO [2121] JOHN JONES. Her father says so himself, twice in one sentence, in an instrument he signed and acknowledged in open court. Before this was read, ALL FOUR of F604's children carried ProofFather = 0 with no citation of any kind on their child links.
1850 United States Federal Census
Year: 1850; Census Place: Essex, Virginia; Roll: 942; Page: 74a
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Deaths, 1912-2014
Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014)
Research notes
Working notes from the research, kept verbatim — what was read, what it proved, what stays open.
Research note · 1 Aug 2026
AUDITED 1 Aug 2026 — HER FATHER IS NOW PROVEN BY RECORD, AND SHE IS THE HINGE OF THIS WHOLE FAMILY. Essex Co., Va. Deed Book 46: on 15 OCTOBER 1838 JOHN JONES conveyed 355 acres in King & Queen and Essex — 'called and known by the name of MIDWAY and formerly called Jones [Ordinary]' — to JEFFERSON MINOR and 'his said Wife VIRGINIA THE DAUGHTER OF THE SAID JOHN JONES', in consideration of their intermarriage and of 'the natural love and affection which the said Jones ha[s] for HIS SAID DAUGHTER'. He signed it and acknowledged it in Essex court 31 Jan 1839. Read from the page image (DGS 007645212 img 94-95), NOT from the OCR. ProofFather raised 0 -> Proven. ⭐ WHY SHE MATTERS BEYOND HERSELF: she is the only one of John Jones's four presumed children tied to him by a document that names the relationship, and Orlando's 1861 will calls her 'my sister' — so she is the anchor for the sibling group. See the note on family F604. ⭐ THE DEED ALSO SAYS THE MINORS WERE ALREADY LIVING AT MIDWAY in 1838 ('upon which the said Minor and Wife at present reside') — a residence fact is added here from that clause. ⭐ AND IT PLACES THEM NEXT DOOR TO THOMAS WRIGHT SENR, who bought the adjoining farm RETREAT in 1833 — the same Wright family into which her niece Mary Ann Jones married. ⛔ THE OCR TRANSCRIPT OF THIS DEED DATES IT 1834. IT IS 1838. Verified on the image. ⚠ UNRESOLVED, FLAGGED NOT FIXED: her birth 'abt 1814' against a marriage event of 20 Dec 1828 makes her a bride at FOURTEEN. One of the two is wrong; neither was altered here. ⚠ The marriage event E8612 already held an EXACT date and was deliberately NOT replaced with the deed's looser 'before 15 Oct 1838'; the deed is cited on it as corroboration. Memo: ancestry/jones-1838-midway-deed-READ-2026-08-01.md
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