THIS FAMILY BEGAN LONG BEFORE THE COUPLE I WROTE ABOUT BELOW...AND IT WILL CONTINUE ON  FOREVER, as you can see by the many family members you read about here.......... This is the story of a young couple just starting out,they began their life together  at the young age of 16 and 15 in Arkansas, They had three children,a very handsome  son,and then came a beautiful daughter (both inside and out) and the youngest who was  the spittin image of her Daddy. They had 2 other children that did not survive  infancy. They had already begun with a large family, The girl had her parents and  nine siblings that took her young man into their family with love, so he had the  family "I think" he had craved all along.He did have a sister he kept in contact with.  But she was the only one in his big family (That we now know he had) that he would  keep in his life permanently. His mother remarried the year after his father died in  1910. They had 4 sons together. It is said that the man was a cruel and hateful man  who abandoned his family soon after the youngest son was born.The Mother moved her  sons to Abilene,Tx soon after,where she lived until her death in 1954.It was a hard  life in Arkansas and the young family decided to start a new life in Texas and moved  to Houston. They lived life in the city, and then retired north of Houston to a small  town. They built a house next door to their only son and his family and began their  retirement years. This man who started out in life  as a young 16 year old married boy  survived his entire family, his son was accidently  killed, and then his wife of over  50 years passed away, His daughters also did not  live to an old age. As they say, you  are not meant to survive your children,but this man did.This couple was my  grandparents. They had 17 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. After my  Grandfather passed away,I started thinking about how I did not know even know who his  parents were.He never talked about them, so that is how this journey began. I have  been researching ever since. This project has been very rewarding and sometimes even  surprising,and painful, but never, EVER, boring. Apparently it all began with another  one young man named Elias Fort who married Phillis Champion and had three sons on the  Isle of Wight, Virginia. Their grandsons migrated on to North Carolina and the  migration continued to Arkansas and then Texas. The Jones branches and the rest of  this HUGE TREE reach from Alabama to Arkansas and some in Texas. We now have  descendants that live in most of the Southern States,with a few exceptions, some live  in New York and beyond. This is my way of honoring ALL of this HUGE FAMILY. There is  alot of history on this website, and I will always be adding more as I discover new  and very interesting individuals within this big circle of life we are descended from.  So if you have ANY stories about the members of this family. Big, small, little  things, even embarrassing... it dosen't matter! what better way to HONOR OUR ANCESTORS  than to tell their true and COMPLETE story. 
 Please let me know and I will gladly add them.