Richard Davenport Jones Collection

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Richard Davenport Jones was born on December 19, 1939 in San Antonio, Texas to Jo Buck Jones and Dora Davenport Jones. He died in 2001 and willed a collection of family papers to his second cousin, once removed, Weldon Green Cannon of Temple, Texas. Cannon donated the collection to the Tarrant County Archives. The papers were compiled by Richard D. Jones and his parents from the extensive research they did on their family history to provide the proof of lineage required for membership to various historical organizations, including the Sons of the American Revolution and United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).

Dora Davenport Jones served as a member and the historian of the Julia Jackson Chapter 141 of the UDC. She helped organize and facilitate numerous projects that focused on Tarrant County’s Confederate history and involvement in the U. S. Civil War. Some of the projects required her to do historical and genealogical research, which she later compiled into self-published essays. These publications along with her research and UDC administrative documents are included in the collection. 

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The Richard Davenport Jones Collection contains genealogy for the Cannon, Coats, Davenport, Haley, Jones, and Leake families. The research materials consist of genealogy charts, notes, clippings, original and copies of early family records, photographs, and correspondence. The Jones family owned a farm in the Grapevine area in the late 1800s, and G. R. Jones’ record book for the Grapevine Farmers Association is in the collection. The collection's genealogy materials are dated 1833 to 1985.

The collection also consists of UDC administrative records, research on Tarrant County Confederate soldiers and their burial sites, and other documents concerning the various projects done by the Julia Jackson Chapter. The publications written by Dora D. Jones are included in the UDC materials and cover the history of the Julia Jackson Chapter, the Confederate Veterans of Tarrant County, and the history of the Robert E. Lee Camp of the United Confederate Veterans. The collection's UDC materials are dated 1927 to 1982.

Related Collections: Follow the link to view the Dora Davenport Jones Collection and the Weldon G. Cannon Collection. 

Seymour High School Basketball Team, 1916-1917 (Jo Buck Jones is fourth from the left)

The collection consists of the following materials by subject:

Genealogy research on the following families: Babb, Cannon, Coats, Davenport, Haley, Jones, Leake, White

• Dora Davenport Jones personal correspondence, 1970-1979
• Autobiographical information on Dora Davenport Jones, June 10, 1981
• Richard Davenport Jones Sons of the American Revolution application
• Jo Buck Jones World War I discharge papers, 1918
• Pages from the Jones family Bible with entries of births, deaths, and marriages, 1833-1939
• G. R. Jones record book from the Grapevine Farmers Association, 1880-1900
• Information about the Burns Cemetery (Tennessee) and Bear Creek Cemetery and Church (now called Western Heights Missionary Baptist Church) where the Haley family is buried
• Information about the burial site of Edward Taylor Haley submitted to the National Society United States Daughters of 1812 by Dora Davenport and Jo Buck Jones, 1969
• Unpublished manuscript of Haley genealogy research, compiled by Dora Davenport Jones, 1951-1970
• Mailing list and invitations to the Haley-Cannon family reunion, 1963
• Copies of Camp Bowie maps
• Copies of Fort Worth maps with handwritten notes on the location of the historic Cold Springs community
• The Euless Herald, First issue of the "Historical Series on Development of Euless," September 4, 1963
• North Texas Baptist College Catalogue for 1892-1893, Jacksboro, Texas

Genealogy Photographs

• Haley and Jones family burials at Bear Creek Cemetery and Church in Tarrant County and Burns Cemetery in Tennessee, negatives and photographs, 1963; 1972
• Mary and James T. Thomas headstone in Eldorado, Oklahoma, photograph, 1972
• Edward F. Haley, portrait, 1940s
• Edward T. and Mary (Coats) Haley, the Haley family home, and Haley graves in Shelbyville, Tennessee, snapshots used for Dora Davenport Jones' manuscript, 1951-1970
• Haley-Cannon family reunion at Arlington Park, panoramic photograph, by David Teeter, Arlington, Texas, May 1963
• Seymour High School basketball team, photograph, Seymour, Texas, 1916

United Daughters of the Confederacy Records

• Programs and Dora Davenport Jones' name ribbon from the 85th Annual Convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Texas Division, October 1981
• Thank you letters to Dora Davenport Jones for her written history of the Julia Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1974-1978
• United Daughters of the Confederacy - Julia Jackson Chapter 141 administrative records, 1965-1980
• United Daughters of the Confederacy - Julia Jackson Chapter 141 correspondence, 1969-1980
• Deed transferring ownership of the property belonging to Robert E. Lee Camp to the Julia Jackson Chapter
• United Daughters of the Confederacy Texas Division materials: programs, copy of an 1898 convention program, brochures, membership applications, newsletter, stationary, and flag questionnaire
• Daughters of the American Revolution programs, clipping, brochures, correspondence, 1965-1981
• White Settlement Allen Log Cabin dedication program, 1978
• Colonial Dames of the XVII Century Dallas Chapter blank letterhead
• Lloyd House in Virginia brochure
• Carroll County Historical Society Historical Quarterly, September 1965
• Historic Lexington Foundation Stonewall Jackson House Restoration Report, 1976-81
• Historic Lexington Foundation Annual Report, 1981-1982
• Palestine Herald-Press, Centennial of the Palestine Carnegie Library, published in Palestine, Texas, April 21, 1962
• The Bicentennial Review, newsletter published by the American Revolution Bicentennial Committee of Fort Worth, Texas, 1974-1976
• Handwritten copy of Talley's Kentucky Papers by William M. Talley, published by Arrow Printing Company in 1966, copied by Dora Davenport Jones
• "History of the Brief Life of Julia Laura Jackson," an essay by Dora Davenport Jones, undated
• "Index to card file of some Confederate burial sites, mostly in Tarrant County, Texas," compiled by the Julia Jackson Chapter 141 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1976-1982
• Research on Texas in the U. S. Civil War and general Civil War history
• Research on Confederate burial sites and preservation, and Confederate soldiers buried in Fort Worth's Oakwood Cemetery
• Deed to the cemetery plots in Oakwood Cemetery known as the Confederate Veterans Plot in Fort Worth, deeded to Julia Jackson Chapter 141 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1976
• Contract for the Confederate soldiers memorial sculpture at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth, made by Gutzon Borglum and Julia Jackson Chapter 141 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, May 31, 1927
• Agreements made between the Julia Jackson Chapter and the Fort Worth Parks Department concerning the Van Zandt Home
• Julia Jackson Chapter Tree planting in Burnett Park
• Julia Jackson Chapter Fort Worth Frontier Centennial project

United Daughters of the Confederacy Photographs

• Daughters of the American Revolution member Jewell Hill, photograph, 1969
• Confederate Veterans Plot at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth, photographs, 1976
• Dedication of the Confederate States Army marker for Major James Madison Handley at Rose Hill Burial Park, photographs, March 25, 1976
• Julia Jackson Christian's headstone, photographs, undated

Publications by Dora Davenport Jones

• Addendum to the History of the R.E. Lee Camp 158, United Confederate Veterans, Including the Split-Off of the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp 1820, United Confederate Veterans, 1919-1926; Two-Year Life of the Belle Boyd Chapter (?), United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1922-1923; and an Update on the Julia Jackson Chapter 141, United Daughters of the Confederacy through 1981, published 1981
• Anne Carter Lee Chapter, Children of the Confederacy, Fort Worth, Texas, 1902-, published June 1979
• The History of the Julia Jackson Chapter 141, United Daughters of the Confederacy, published 1976
• Primary Source Records of the R.E. Lee Camp #158, UCV, and Julia Jackson Chap. #141, UDC, in the Fort Worth Public Library and Tex. Div. UDC Museum and Library, Austin, Texas, published 1979
• United Confederate Veterans History and Roster of Officers and Members of R.E. Lee Camp and the Confederate Veterans of Tarrant County, published 1978