The Life of Allen Carter Jones: Early Settler and Texas Revolutionary (ca. 1785–ca. 1851)
By: Eleanor D. Pace
Revised by: Brett J. Derbes
Published: 1952
Updated: July 11, 2023
Allen Carter Jones, early settler, the son of Jacob Jones and Susanna Byrd, was born on the Yadkin River in Davie County, North Carolina around 1785. He relocated to Tennessee and eventually Sullivan, Indiana, where he married Margaret Ann Hynes around 1815. She filed for divorce with the Sullivan Circuit Court in 1826, and Jones married Mary Jane Norris shortly thereafter. The family arrived at Nacogdoches, Texas, on July 1, 1826. Jones participated in the Texas Revolution under the command of William Heard, and later at the battle of San Jacinto with Company F under General Edward Burleson. He was later detailed for service in the home guard to protect the women and children against local Native Americans. He received one of the earliest headright certificates from the Republic of Texas, for a league and a labor of land now in Montgomery County within the larger Montgomery Land District, which was later subdivided into Grimes County. His eldest son, Keeton, also received land for his services in the Texas Revolution. While living in the Montgomery Land District he served as Justice of the Peace, County Commissioner, and Commission of the Land Board. His second wife passed away around 1829, and Jones married his third wife, Marias Davis Stone, on July 30, 1838, and remained in Grimes County for at least ten years. He had ten children with his first wife and four with his second. By 1850 he relocated south with his son Charles C. Jones to Goliad, where he died around 1851.
Bibliography:
Herbert C. Banks II, ed., Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Patriot Ancestor Album, Volume 2 (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 2001).
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Eleanor D. Pace Revised by Brett J. Derbes, “Jones, Allen Carter,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 09, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/jones-allen-carter.
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