Mabry Tyson
HERITAGE

My family has been blessed by a number of wonderful and famous people. Some of these are portrayed in the following pages.

The JONES family descends from ??? who emigrated in ???. In the early years of the United States, the men in the family held distiguished military positions. The post-Civil War years saw a number of the family hold prominent positions in the banking industry.

• Major General Roger ap Catesby Jones (1788-1852), first Adjutant General of the Army
• Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones (1790-1858), Admiral of the Pacific Fleet
• Commodore Catesby ap Roger Jones (1821-1877), commanded the CSSh Virginia against the USS Monitor in the first battle of the Ironclads
• Brigadier General Roger Jones (???-1898)

Other close family members are listed in the JONES page.

The CATESBY family descends can be traced back to ???.

• Mark Catesby, famed naturalist dating from before James Audobon.

Last updated Mon, Oct 14, 2002 Mabry Tyson