Parents: John Alexander Jones and Mahala Jane Capps.
Andrew married Texanna Stevens December 25, 1873 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Dora Neal, John Henry, Louis Baker, Lela Belle, Naoma, and George.
After Texanna's death in 1888 he married a second time.
Andrew's second marriage was to Laura Eugene Addison Neatherlin in the year 1893 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Florida, Pinkney "Pink", Virgil, Gervis, Manila, and Saloma Mahala.
Andy was a small boy when his parents moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1864.
He went to school in a little clap-board shack with a dirt floor.
He was a member of Robert Ballentyne's company of minutemn, organized for the protection of the frontier.
He would scout for 20 days in each month and get paid $20 for the month. They furnished their own grub and mounts, while the state supplied them with guns and ammunition, and gave orders how to take care of the horses.
"Mavericks and Maverickers"
"Once in a lull in Indian raids, Andrew Gatliff Jones and some other rangers took off in the Nueces River country, and caught 400 head of mavericks, which they drove to Bandera and sold for $2.00 a head and as a result were fired from the Ranger service..."
By: J. Frank Dobie; Sheep and Goat Raisers Magazine; Frontier Times, 1940.
Sources:
Pioneer History of Bandera County. By J. Marvin Hunter. 1922.
Ancestry.com
Andrew married Texanna Stevens December 25, 1873 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Dora Neal, John Henry, Louis Baker, Lela Belle, Naoma, and George.
After Texanna's death in 1888 he married a second time.
Andrew's second marriage was to Laura Eugene Addison Neatherlin in the year 1893 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Florida, Pinkney "Pink", Virgil, Gervis, Manila, and Saloma Mahala.
Andy was a small boy when his parents moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1864.
He went to school in a little clap-board shack with a dirt floor.
He was a member of Robert Ballentyne's company of minutemn, organized for the protection of the frontier.
He would scout for 20 days in each month and get paid $20 for the month. They furnished their own grub and mounts, while the state supplied them with guns and ammunition, and gave orders how to take care of the horses.
"Mavericks and Maverickers"
"Once in a lull in Indian raids, Andrew Gatliff Jones and some other rangers took off in the Nueces River country, and caught 400 head of mavericks, which they drove to Bandera and sold for $2.00 a head and as a result were fired from the Ranger service..."
By: J. Frank Dobie; Sheep and Goat Raisers Magazine; Frontier Times, 1940.
Sources:
Pioneer History of Bandera County. By J. Marvin Hunter. 1922.
Ancestry.com
Parents: John Alexander Jones and Mahala Jane Capps.
Andrew married Texanna Stevens December 25, 1873 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Dora Neal, John Henry, Louis Baker, Lela Belle, Naoma, and George.
After Texanna's death in 1888 he married a second time.
Andrew's second marriage was to Laura Eugene Addison Neatherlin in the year 1893 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Florida, Pinkney "Pink", Virgil, Gervis, Manila, and Saloma Mahala.
Andy was a small boy when his parents moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1864.
He went to school in a little clap-board shack with a dirt floor.
He was a member of Robert Ballentyne's company of minutemn, organized for the protection of the frontier.
He would scout for 20 days in each month and get paid $20 for the month. They furnished their own grub and mounts, while the state supplied them with guns and ammunition, and gave orders how to take care of the horses.
"Mavericks and Maverickers"
"Once in a lull in Indian raids, Andrew Gatliff Jones and some other rangers took off in the Nueces River country, and caught 400 head of mavericks, which they drove to Bandera and sold for $2.00 a head and as a result were fired from the Ranger service..."
By: J. Frank Dobie; Sheep and Goat Raisers Magazine; Frontier Times, 1940.
Sources:
Pioneer History of Bandera County. By J. Marvin Hunter. 1922.
Ancestry.com
Andrew married Texanna Stevens December 25, 1873 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Dora Neal, John Henry, Louis Baker, Lela Belle, Naoma, and George.
After Texanna's death in 1888 he married a second time.
Andrew's second marriage was to Laura Eugene Addison Neatherlin in the year 1893 in Bandera County, Texas.
Children from this marriage: Florida, Pinkney "Pink", Virgil, Gervis, Manila, and Saloma Mahala.
Andy was a small boy when his parents moved to Bandera from San Antonio in 1864.
He went to school in a little clap-board shack with a dirt floor.
He was a member of Robert Ballentyne's company of minutemn, organized for the protection of the frontier.
He would scout for 20 days in each month and get paid $20 for the month. They furnished their own grub and mounts, while the state supplied them with guns and ammunition, and gave orders how to take care of the horses.
"Mavericks and Maverickers"
"Once in a lull in Indian raids, Andrew Gatliff Jones and some other rangers took off in the Nueces River country, and caught 400 head of mavericks, which they drove to Bandera and sold for $2.00 a head and as a result were fired from the Ranger service..."
By: J. Frank Dobie; Sheep and Goat Raisers Magazine; Frontier Times, 1940.
Sources:
Pioneer History of Bandera County. By J. Marvin Hunter. 1922.
Ancestry.com
Inscription
On his original stone it read: He died as he lived, a Christian. On the new stone it is a double headstone he shares with his wife Laura. There is also a Texas Ranger Marker next to his headstone.
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