Winston-Salem Journal, 21 May 1981.

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In the 1920 census of Oldfields township, Wilson County: farmer Thomas A. Jones, 51; wife Mary I., 45; children Milbry, 28, Andrew, 19, Leonia, 17, James H., 14, Ollie T., 9, Ida May, 7, Paul H., 5, and Jim Lawrence, 3; and granddaughter Bettie Lee, 4.

In the 1930 census of Crossroads township, Wilson County: farmer Thomas Jones, 61; wife Ida, 54; and children Leona, 27, Ollie, 19, Ida M., 17, Paul, 15, James, 13, and Willie, 8.

In the 1940 census of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina: at 1010 East Second, Ollie T. Jones, 29, and wife Daisy, 26, both cigarette factory workers.

In 1945, Ollie Thomas Jones registered for the World War II draft in Forsyth County. Per his registration card, he was born 25 April 1910 in Wilson, N.C.; lived at 1010 East First Street, Winston-Salem; his contact was wife Daisy Jones; and he was “unemployed–recently discharged.”

On 9 October 1954, Ollie Thomas Jones, 44, of Winston-Salem, son of Thomas A. and Mary Ada Jones, married Veritas Sherard, 39, of Winston-Salem, daughter of Robert L. and Ruth L. Grier, in Winston-Salem.