William was born on 8 April 1810 in
Abbeville district, South Carolina. He was the son of
Robert Frazer Jones and
Sarah Roberts. He married
Nancy McLin Gillespie in
Dekalb county,, Georgia, on 17 February 1833. William died on 29 February 1888 in
Desdemona, Eastland county, Texas, at age 77. His body was interred in
Desdemona, Eastland county, Texas, in Howard cemetery.
William Fletcher Jones was a Methodist preacher as well as the son and father of Methodist preachers. The Jones were already intermarried with the Gillespie family before moving from South Carolina into newly opened Indian territory in the 1821 Georgia Land Lottery. William and Nancy were probably married in Dekalb county before moving to Carroll county where he was admitted to the pastorate in 1835. In the 1850's & 1860's William was a preacher/farmer in Gordon county with the Wesley Chapel. In 1867 the family moved from this part of Georgia that had been particularly wracked by Civil War destruction to Etowah county, Alabama where evidence suggest he was pastor of Bristers Cove Methodist Church near Walnut Grove. In 1872 all but three daughters moved to Eastland county, Texas. One of William's nieces' in Gerogia left a diary that describes him as being red haired and blue eyed before he left for distant Texas never to be seen again.