Robert was born circa 1782 in
Abbeville district, South Carolina. He was the son of
James Jones and
Mary Frazer. He married
Sarah Roberts in
Abbeville district, South Carolina, circa 1801. Robert died circa 1828 in
Dekalb county, Georgia. His body was interred in
Dekalb county, Georgia, in Old Macedonia cemetery.
Abbeville district was a frontier region attracting settlement when Robert was born in 1782. When he married Sarah Roberts at the turn of the century he began a lifelong ministry with the early Methodist church. In 1823 he took his sizable family and moved to Dekalb county Georgia which had recently been opened in the 1821 Land Lottery. With him were his brother, James, and his wife Betsy Roberts, sister to Sarah. Also with them was the Gillespie family. In Dekalb county near present day Atlanta Robert Frazer Jones built a log church named Old Macedonia. He died in 1828 of unknown causes at the age of 40 and was buried in the church cemetary. Wife Sarah remained in Dekalb county the rest of her life. 1830 & 1840 census list her as head of her remaining household with numerous family members nearby, In 1850 she had moved into the home of her eldest son, John H. Jones, where she remained until her death in 1874.