One installment in a series of articles Mr. John A. Stegall prepares and
publishes in The Elliott County News, this article being a continuation
from Jan 24, 1997.  Transcribed with permission from the author by Samone
Ratcliff. on Dec 3, 1999.

        John M. Jones: Pvt., Co, B. 5th Ky. Inf., CSA.  This veteran said he
entered the Confederate Army in Jan 1862 and served a total of 8 months;
however, he stated that he was a "Prisoner of Camp Chase 19 months".  No
war related injuries or current illnesses were mentioned; neither did he
specify which post office he received his mail through.  Other veterans who
were listed near his name would seem to indicate that he was living in the
Moccasin Precinct in 1890.
        I have not been able to definitely identify John M. Jones' parents;
however, he was married in Morgan Co and when one of his children was born,
he indicated that he was born in Morgan Co.  Based on this, I find a John
Jones, age 9, and the son of James Jones, Sr. in the 1850
Morgan Co, KY census.
        John M. Jones is not named in the 1860 Morgan Co census, but marriage
records for that county show that John M. Jones and Margaret Banner were
married there on Feb 19, 1899.
        I am unable to locate John M. Jones in the 1870 or 1880 Elliott Co census
reports.  A birth record in the Elliott co Birth Records, 1874-1878, shows
that a son, James R, was born to John M. and Margaret E. Banner on Apr 18,
1884 but it indicates that the birth actually occurred in Rowan Co.
According to this record, John was born in Carter Co; Margaret was born in
Scott Co, VA.
        On Dec 22, 1876 another son, John M., was born to John M. Jones and
Margaret E. Banner (Jones).  This record states that the father was born in
Morgan Co.
        Elliott Co tax records reveal that John M. Jones lived in the Moccasin
Precinct in 1890, and that he owned 60 acres of land.  He named James
Goodman as his nearest neighbor.
        John M. Jones is not named in the 1900 or 1910 Elliott Co census reports.
Obviously, he was a resident of Elliott Co for many years, but I cannot
explain why he is not named in any of the census records for that county.

        William Jones: Pvt. Co., C. 14th Ky Inf., USA, Aug 22, 1862 to Sept 16,
1863 (1 yr., 24 da.).  "Ruptured".  Pvt., Co., A, 54th Ky Inf., Sept 12,
1864 to Apr 9, 1865 (7 mos., 27 da.). 
        Some extracted copies of the military records indicate that there were 2
veterans named William Jones; however, I am inclined to believe there was
only one.  If my inclination is true, William Jones was apparently
discharged after about one year in the military, then re-enlisted for
another seven months.
        Jones gave very little information to the census-taker in 1890, stating
only that he was ruptured.  He gave no address, but records indicate that
most of the Jones lived in the Moccasin Precinct, or in that general area.
        I do not find a William Jones in my records until the 1880 Elliott Co
census. That particular William Jones stated that he was 52 years of age
and was born in VA.  His wife, Mary, was 45, and , likewise, born in VA.
James, age 14, and born in KY, was the only child at home with them in
1880.
        As revealed by the military census, William Jones was a resident of
Elliott Co in 1890.  He is not named in the Elliott Co Tax Assessments for
that year, and from that we may conclude that he owned no land in Elliott
Co.  He may have been a renter. 
        I find no further mention of William Jones in my records.

        Samuel B. Kegley: Pvt., Co., B, 5th Ky Inf., CSA.  1862 to 1863 (1 year, 2
months) In 1890, Samuel told the census-taker that he was "Shot through the
left breast, captured and Parolled".  His post office was Leadingham.
        Samuel Kegley was the son of John Henry and Ann Moyers Kegley, ans was
born in Wythe Co, VA, Aug 15, 1841.  Henry, as he was usually called, was,
in turn, a son of  Martin Kegley and Mary Magdalene Meyers Kegley, ans was
born in 1807 in Wythe Co, VA.  He resettled in what is now Elliott Co in
1859, where he died in 1898.  Martin Kegley was a son of George Kegley,
Sr., who lived first in Annville, Pennsylvania.  We know that George's wife
was names Catherine, but her maiden name is unknown to us today.  George
Kegley is considered to have been the progenitor of the Wythe Co, VA
Kegleys, and, for that matter, the Kegleys of Eastern Kentucky.
        The first record I can find for Samuel Kegley is contained in the 1850
Wythe Co, VA census.  At that time, he was 10 years of age and living in
the home of his parents, Henry and Ann Kegley.  Since the Kegleys moved to
the present day Elliott Co in 1859, it may be correctly assumed that Samuel
would be found in the 1860 Carter Co census.  This is further supported by
the fact that Samuel and Elizabeth Catron were married in Carter Co on May
17, 1863.  Witnesses to the marriage were John Kegley and Mary Elliott with
C.W. Carter named as the presiding minister.