When 17 month-old John Jones Jr. died of malaria and meningitis in 1916, he was buried at “Jones Schoolhouse.”

Jones Schoolhouse? Was there a cemetery at Jones Hill School? Or was this the cemetery for Jones Hill Primitive Baptist Church, which was close by the school?

John Jones’ father William Anderson Jones was the son of Nathan and Joanna Jones and grandson of Joseph and Zilla Locus Jones, and thus a member of the large extended Jones family with roots as free people of color in Nash County. Many are buried in the Jones Hill cemetery, which seems the most likely location for this baby’s grave. (Another of William and Amanda Rowe Jones’ children — William Thomas Jones — was buried in New Vester church cemetery in 1915, as was Amanda Jones after her death in Wake County in 1927.)