Jones Gravesites Pioneer Cemetery in Kansas Shared gravestone of Wiley, Abigail, and son Jacob Jones Pioneer Cemetery is located near Baldwin City, Douglas Co., Kansas. "Remember, remember always that all of us are descended from immigrants."-Franklin D.Roosevelt                               ***About Abigail Butram Jones*** Abigail, a daughter of Cornelius Buttram and wife Nancy Woodard,  married Rev. Wiley Jones at the age of 16 (source:Marriages of Wayne Co., Ky A-J.-byJune Baldwin Bork).  At the time, he had a Bible and one horse.  The young couple lived with Wileys' father, James, a widower.  Three of the young Jones couples' children were born in Kentucky.  Wiley was out-spoken on the issue of slavery, and was a true Abolitionist.  When Abigail was 22 years old, she and her family were members of a large group of people, family and friends, who migrated to Johnson Co., Indiana. Abigail had seven more children in Indiana.  She had tremendous responsibilities caring for the children and the farm, especially in the times of absence when Wiley, a Circuit Rider, was away preaching the gospel for the Methodist Episcopal Church.  By the time Abigail was 39, all of her children had been born.  She then lost her father, who died around this time.  He is buried somewhere in Hensley Township, Johnson Co., Indiana.  It is not known where Nancy, mother of Abigail is buried., but Nancy was enumerated on the 1850 Johnson Co., Indiana census as living in the household of her son-in-law, John Richardson and her daughter(his wife) Nancy Buttram Richardson.  Wileys' father, James Jones, also died about the same year as Cornelius Buttram, around 1846.  Abigail and Wiley, and nine of their ten children made a decision to move further Westward, and moved on  to Cass Co., Missouri.  Their eldest daughter, Nancy Jones, had married Benjamin Balay in Johnson Co., Indiana., remained there, and had 12 children.  (source:Mary Casida-a descendant). Upon arriving in Cass Co., Missouri, the family settled near Harrisonville.  Soon Abigail was a grandmother, and cared for an infant , because her son Wilson Lee Jones, had married Mary Frances Fowler, who had a son, but died in childbirth.  The child was named  Wiley A. Jones. When the Territory of Kansas opened up for settlement, Abigail again put on her pioneer bonnet, and moved with her adult children and younger children, and grandchild, and Rev. Wiley Jones, to an area known as Prairie City, Ks.  The family was instrumental, along with other settlers,  in developing the area.  Abigail mourned the loss of sons-possibly three were killed due to serving in the Civil War.  Questionable is what happened to James Cornelius Jones, first-born male child.Again, in Rev. Wiley Jones' absence, Abigail shouldered great responsibilities.  The time came when Wiley, in ailing health, passed away in 1877.  Abigail then lived with her son, Jacob P. Jones.  She also was now receiving a monthly stipend from having been approved as eligible to draw a pension, from her son, John Nelson Jones, who was wounded at a battle at Fort Donelson, Tn.  He died a few days later.  John  never married.  By 1880, she would then learn that her daughter, Elizabeth Jones Pleasants, was separated from her husband John.  Elizabeth never returned to John, and was on a "visit" to her mother when the 1880 census was enumerated. Her grandchild, Nannie Jones, whose parents were Alfred Wiley Jones II and wife Delana Jane Foster, had Grandmother Abigail make an entry in her "autograph book"-so popular with young girls in those days, and even up into the 1950's!  The Jones family was a very close-knit family.  Even the eldest daughter, Nancy and her family came to visit, as evidenced by an entry in the same autograph book of Nannie Jones by Sinah Balay, from Indiana.  In the year of 1886, Abigail Butram Jones passed away, and is buried beside her husband Rev. (A.) Wiley Jones.  They share a gravestone with their son Jacob P. Jones, 1840-1900.  Their son, Wilson Lee Jones, 1834-1866, is buried within close proximity to them. -Oma