William Josephus Jones

This is possibly William Jones. I remember Grandma showing this photo when I visited them in Florida when I was very young.

William Josephus Jones and George Ann Wirt Jones
This photo is of my great grandparents: William Jones and George Ann Wirt.
William Jones' ancestry is not really known at this time and we are still working to find his ancestors. We have a few real good possibilities.
George Ann Wirt was the daughter of Russell Wirt and Delilah Snider (Thompson) Wirt.
Russell Wirt was the son Andrew Wirt and Anna Consolver.

James Shannon Holmes and Elizabeth Ann Harvey Holmes

This photo is of my great-grandparents: Elizabeth Ann Harvey and James Shannon Holmes.
Elizabeth is the daughter of William Peck Harvey and Nancy Adeline Farley.
James is the son of John C. Holmes and Susan McCallister.

Nancy Adeline Farley (Harvey)

This is a photo of my Great-Great mother Nancy Adeline Farley Harvey. Family tradition says that she was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. So far I have not found any documentation of this fact. However it is obvious that she is not of Anglo-Saxon or European Heritage. I have also considered the possibility of her being Melungeon. The Melungeon people were known to be in the Mercer County West Virginia area. This is where Adeline lived.

Introduction

My name is Frank Green and this blog is dedicated to my West Virginia and Western Virginia ancestors. This is my heritage through my mother's family. The names include Jones, Wirt, Holmes, Harvey, Farley, McCallister,Swope,Comer and Miller.
They are English, German, Scots-Irish, Native American and possibly Melungeon in origin.
My mother's name was Betty Ann Jones. She married my father John Franklin Green on December 20,1957 in Orlando Florida and became Betty Ann Green. She was born January 1, 1937 in Beckley West Virginia and moved to Florida when she was in her late teens.Her parents were John Henry Jones and Eula Eliza Holmes. This blog will tell about my grandparents ancestry. This will be a good way to share the information that I have with my cousins who live in different parts of the country.
It will also be a good way of sharing the photos that I have of my mom's family. I would like to thank Billy Rowe for copying my mom's photo collection.
This will contain information that I have acumulated over the past ten years or so.
Some of my sources are Dona Zimmerman, Betty Green, the late Eula Holmes Jones and Mildred Holmes. I also got information from the Virginia State Library, the National Archives and the Mercer County Courts.