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Bradford County, PA

William Belles Jones

Male 1923 - 1983  (59 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William Belles Jones 17 Nov 1923 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (son of Harvey Potts Jones and Ruth Abigail Belles); Mar 1983; 18 Mar 1983Whitemarsh, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Age: 59

    Family/Spouse: Jean Winifred Lord. Jean (daughter of Frederick Lord, Sr and Mary Alice Kent) 06 Mar 1923; 4 Apr 2018Gwynedd Valley, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. William Boo Jones
    2. Living

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Harvey Potts JonesHarvey Potts Jones 15 Apr 1894 Reading, PA (son of Evan Thomas Jones and Emma Rebecca Potts); 25 Mar 1967Philadelphia, PA; Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Harvey Ruth Abigail Belles. Ruth (daughter of William E. Belles and Ruth Kyte) 19 Aug 1898; 29 Sep 1977; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Ruth Abigail BellesRuth Abigail Belles 19 Aug 1898 (daughter of William E. Belles and Ruth Kyte); 29 Sep 1977; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
    Children:
    1. 1. William Belles Jones 17 Nov 1923 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Mar 1983; 18 Mar 1983Whitemarsh, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. Elsie Louise Jones about 1923 Pennsylvania, USA; 1977Chestnut Hill, PA; Pottsvile, PA.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Evan Thomas Jones 28 Feb 1862 Rumney, Monmouthshire, Wales (son of David Evans Jones and Mary Owen); 20 Sep 1933Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Birth:
    South Wales

    Died:
    Age: 71

    Evan Emma Rebecca Potts 26 Jun 1884Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA. Emma (daughter of Captain William Wainwright Potts and Mary Jane Welch) 14 May 1866 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 21 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 25 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Emma Rebecca PottsEmma Rebecca Potts 14 May 1866 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA (daughter of Captain William Wainwright Potts and Mary Jane Welch); 21 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 25 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Age: 55

    Died:
    Age: 55

    Children:
    1. William Potts Jones 03 Apr 1887 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 29 May 1950Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. Marion E Jones about 1891 Pennsylvania, USA.
    3. 2. Harvey Potts Jones 15 Apr 1894 Reading, PA; 25 Mar 1967Philadelphia, PA; Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. Thomas P Jones about 1903 Pennsylvania, USA.

  3. 6.  William E. BellesWilliam E. Belles 10 Mar 1864 Pennsylvania, USA (son of Abraham Belles and Elizabeth Tucker); 4 Jun 1930Pottsville, PA; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.

    William Ruth Kyte. Ruth 1864; 1909Pottsville, PA; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Ruth Kyte 1864; 1909Pottsville, PA; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
    Children:
    1. 3. Ruth Abigail Belles 19 Aug 1898; 29 Sep 1977; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
    2. Nellie Belles 1889 PA; 1968; Pottsville, PA.
    3. Louise Belles 1907 PA; 1970PA; Pottsville.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  David Evans Jones about 1832 Wales; May 1910North Ward, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 31 May 1910Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Buried:
    Age: 79

    Died:
    Age: 79

    David Mary Owen 1856. Mary about 1838 Wales; Jan 1914North Ward, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Jan 1914Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary Owen about 1838 Wales; Jan 1914North Ward, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Jan 1914Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.
    Children:
    1. Richard Llewellyn Jones May 1861 Wales; 1945Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 1945Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. 4. Evan Thomas Jones 28 Feb 1862 Rumney, Monmouthshire, Wales; 20 Sep 1933Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA; Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

  3. 10.  Captain William Wainwright PottsCaptain William Wainwright Potts 10 Jun 1831 Columbus, Burlington, New Jersey, USA (son of Aaron Mount Potts and Rebecca Aaronson); 21 Jan 1894Vine Terrace, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Jun 1894Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Siege of Petersburg (Wikipedia 2017)



    The 48th Pennsylvania served in the Siege of Petersburg from June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865, including the Second Battle of Petersburg on June 16–18 and the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road on June 22–23.[2] At the Second Battle of Petersburg, two soldiers of the regiment earned the Medal of Honor: Private Robert Reid of Company G for capturing a Confederate battle flag, and Corporal Patrick Monaghan of Company F for re-capturing a Union battle flag.[3]

    The 48th Pennsylvania then played an integral role in what would become known as the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. In mid-1864, Grant wanted to defeat Lee's army at Petersburg without resorting to a lengthy siege—his experience in the Siege of Vicksburg told him that such affairs were expensive and difficult on the morale of his men. Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Major General Ambrose Burnside's IX Corps, offered a novel proposal to solve Grant's problem. Pleasants, a mining engineer from Pennsylvania in civilian life, proposed digging a long mine shaft underneath the Confederate lines and planting explosive charges directly underneath a fort (Elliott's Salient) in the middle of the Confederate First Corps line. If successful, Union troops could drive through the resulting gap in the line into the Confederate rear area. Digging began in late June, creating a mine in a "T" shape with an approach shaft 511 feet (156 m) long. At its end, a perpendicular gallery of 75 feet (23 m) extended in both directions. The gallery was filled with 8,000 pounds of gunpowder, buried 20 feet (6.1 m) underneath the Confederate works.[4]

    At 4:44 a.m. on July 30, the charges exploded in a massive shower of earth, men, and guns. A crater (still visible today) was created, 170 feet (52 m) long, 60 to 80 feet (24 m) wide, and 30 feet (9.1 m) deep. The blast destroyed the Confederate fortifications in the immediate vicinity, and instantly killed between 250 and 350 Confederate soldiers.

    Biography from history of the 48th blog ( https://48thpennsylvania.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-new-face-of-48th-william-wainwright.html?ref=digest )
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    William Wainwright Potts was born on June 10, 1831, in Columbus, Burlington County, New Jersey, the second child and first son born to Aaron and Rebecca Potts. Sometime when William, presumably, was still young, the family relocated to Schuylkill County, settling in Pottsville, where Aaron and Rebecca would continue to raise their family, which will grow to include three more children, two girls and another boy, Charles Potts, who, like his older brother William would serve in the Civil War.

    On May 5, 1853, William Wainwright Potts, not quite twenty-two years of age, married Mary Jane Welch who, over the next 18 years would deliver eight children, though, sadly, four of them would not survive infancy or childhood. Mary Jane passed away at the young age of 37 in the spring of 1871, perhaps from complications from childbirth. Her remains were laid to rest in Pottsville's Presbyterian Cemetery.

    Although his occupation is recorded as a 'moulder,' or mold maker, in the regimental records of the 48th, his obituary noted that he was a well-known hotel keeper in the city, and an 1857 article in the Mining Record and Pottsville Emporium recorded a rather interesting tid-bit or anecdote relating to William Potts. Potts, as the article stated, was the proprietor of the White Horse Restaurant. Apparently in June of that year quite a remarkable thing happened--worthy of headlines in the local paper. "On last Wednesday evening about 10 minutes after 10 o'clock," the article recorded, "Mr. William Potts, proprietor of the White Horse Restaurant, opened an immense Absecum salt Oyster, containing forty-seven pearls, varying in size from a pin's head to a very large pea--also a miniature goose of gold, on which was inscribed, 'Buy your clothing at the store of Mr. David A. Smith, on Centre Street, Pottsville, Pa."

    With the outbreak of civil war in 1861, thirty-year-old William W. Potts offered his services and that summer was mustered in as 1st Lieutenant, Company D, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry. He stood rather tall, at 5'11" in height, had a "light" complexion, and dark eyes. Upon Daniel Nagle's elevation from captain of Company D to regimental major in November 1861, Potts was promoted to captain and served in that capacity until his discharge in January 1863. Potts was discharged due to a disability and it would seem he was not with the company for the final few months of 1862, since Lt. Curtis Pollock of Company G, would temporarily command Company D at the Battle of Fredericksburg. Potts was likely in poor health.

    Charles Potts, William's younger brother, served as a lieutenant in the nine-month 151st Pennsylvania Infantry--the "school teacher's regiment." On July 1, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, during whitch the 151st suffered tremendously high casualties, Lt. Potts was captured. He spent the next fourteen months in captivity but survived the ordeal and returned home.

    After William's discharge from the 48th in January 1863, he returned to Pottsville. In 1873, two years after the death of Mary Jane, he remarried. His second wife, Eliza Noble, gave birth to six more children, three of whom would die in childhood. Thus, of William Potts's fourteen children, seven would not live to maturity. With this and with the death of Mary Jane, tragedy certainly seemed to have shadowed William Wainwright Potts.

    William remained active in the community and in veteran's affairs, taking a leading role with the Grand Army of the Republic. He would die rather young, due to complications from diabetes, passing away at age 62 in January 1894. His remains were interred in Pottsville's Charles Baber Cemetery.

    My thanks go out to Mr. Bill Clark for so generously sharing your family ancestry with me, and for giving me the opportunity to see yet another face of the 48th.



    Potts was the proprietor of the White Horse Restaurant.

    Captain Mary Jane Welch 05 May 1853Columbus, Burlington, New Jersey, USA. Mary 1834; 21 May 1871Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; May 1871Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Mary Jane Welch 1834; 21 May 1871Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; May 1871Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Notes:

    Died:
    May have died in childbirth

    Children:
    1. Abby Frances Potts DY 09 Nov 1859 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 20 Apr 1863Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Apr 1863Presbyterian Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    2. William Burnside Potts 18 May 1862 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 03 Aug 1911Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA; Aug 1911Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, USA.
    3. Elizabeth Anna Potts 31 Jan 1854 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 29 Dec 1916Philadelphia, PA.
    4. Aaron Harvey Potts 01 Dec 1855 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 16 Nov 1908Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 21 Nov 1908Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    5. Mary Ellen Potts 03 Jan 1857 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 23 Dec 1858Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Dec 1858Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    6. 5. Emma Rebecca Potts 14 May 1866 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 21 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 25 Jul 1921Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.
    7. Carrie Mae Potts 10 Aug 1868 Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; 01 Feb 1952Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
    8. Sarah Potts Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA; Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, USA.

  5. 12.  Abraham Belles 17 Feb 1833 Pocono, Monroe, Pennsylvania, USA (son of William D Belles and Rebecca Sebring); 02 Jan 1912Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Abraham Elizabeth Tucker 28 Mar 1860Pennsylvania, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William Tucker and Caroline Karlina Deiter) 30 Dec 1841 Kidder, Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA; after 1920Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  Elizabeth Tucker 30 Dec 1841 Kidder, Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA (daughter of William Tucker and Caroline Karlina Deiter); after 1920Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA.
    Children:
    1. Edward Belles Jan 1865 Pennsylvania, USA; 1985.
    2. Alice Belles 1864 Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA.
    3. Roland Belles Jan 1862 Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; Jul 1947Beaumont, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, USA.
    4. 6. William E. Belles 10 Mar 1864 Pennsylvania, USA; 4 Jun 1930Pottsville, PA; Charles Baber Cemetery Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
    5. Jennie Belles 13 Apr 1873 Pennsylvania, USA; 17 Jul 1952Union City, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA.
    6. Benjamin Franklin Belles Oct 1871 Buck, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA; 02 Oct 1935Laurel Run, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, USA.