The earliest known ancestor, Leonard Jones (1745-1839), came to America with his son, Joshua Jones (1771-1842), in 1787/88. Both were born in Wales. Leonard's second wife was Nancy Jenkins, whom he married 1792 in Summer Co., Tenn. Joshua married Sarah Morris in 1796 at St. Paul's Parish, Richmond Co., Georgia. He died in Blount Co., Alabama. Sarah Morris (1774-1860) was born either in South Carolina or England possibly a daughter of William Morris....

Robert Cree (d.1832) lived in Cumberland (now Perry) County, Pennsylvania during or before 1779. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere.

Chiefly, a record of some ancestors of James Thomas Blackwood who was born on a farm in Wayne County, Tennessee in 1857. In 1884, he married Mattie Love Overall who was called "Lovie". They had several children. Lovie died in 1925. James married again. They lived together for twenty-five years before he died in 1957 at 100 years old. Ancestors lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and elsewhere.

It was in the mid 17th century when the Malone family immigrated to Colonial Virginia. It is believed "that Malones are descended from the early Governor Moore of the Bermudas, through intermarriage of Moores and Tuckers." Daniel Malone (b. ca. 1642-1643), wife unknown, believed to be the ancestor of all known Malones of Virginia descent, as shown in the earliest documentation. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Maryland,...