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for D. Jones
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Jean Taylor
December 10, 2019
It's hard to believe 13 years have passed. I could never than Mitch enough for all the genealogy info he gave me and just friendly messages we exchanged. He is certainly not forgotten.
April 18, 2018
For anyone who would like to consult Mitch's genealogy work, here is a URL to an archive where it is still available online (this is for the Prettyman family of Delmarva).
https://web.archive.org/web/20111126125747/http://www.dmitchelljones.org/prettyman.htm
You can also access his "Tennessee Home Page"
https://web.archive.org/web/20111126125747/http://www.dmitchelljones.org/
and from there open links to all his public files.
Chet B. Snow, a Prettyman descendant at:
https://wikitree.com/wiki/Snow-2128
Bob Trapp
April 18, 2018
Hi Mitch, I know you are looking down on all of us - your cousins and we have missed you a great deal. I will never forget the times we would meet at that little restuarant in Smithville to talk about family. Your help in sorting out my Trapp family lines from Tennessee was a true blessing. Just want to say Happy Birthday to a most fantastic cousin. Yea, I know I'm a week late but we both share that same wonderful closeness of family. Hope your children are doing well, I have not been in contact with them as of late. Miss you and all of your kind words and knowledge.
Bob Trapp
April 18, 2018
Hi Mitch, I know you are looking down on all of us - your cousins and we have missed you a great deal. I will never forget the times we would meet at that little restuarant in Smithville to talk about family. Your help in sorting out my Trapp family lines from Tennessee was a true blessing. Just want to say Happy Birthday to a most fantastic cousin. Yea, I know I'm a week late but we both share that same wonderful closeness of family. Hope your children are doing well, I have not been in contact with them as of late. Miss you and your help.
April 18, 2018
Hi Mitch, I know you are looking down on all of us - your cousins and we have missed you a great deal. I will never forget the times we would meet at that little restuarant in Smithville to talk about family. Your help in sorting out my Trapp family lines from Tennessee was a true blessing. Just want to say Happy Birthday to a most fantastic cousin. Yea, I know I'm a week late but we both share that same wonderful closeness of family. Hope your children are doing well, I have not been in contact with them as of late. Miss you,
Bob Trapp
Bill Nash
April 17, 2018
Sorry to hear of his passing. My Civil War ancestor Matthias Judd-served with his. Loved the web site!
Patricia Corbell Gonzalez
April 20, 2017
I would like to express my sympathy at the passing of Mr. Jones. I am descended from the same William A. Jones as he was. I have a copy of the Jones Family in America and it has provided great help in tracing my Jones family through Delaware and Georgia. I am sorry at the passing of such a great man, historian and author.
Sincerely, Patricia Corbell Gonzalez
April 1, 2015
Mitch is missed by so many of us. He helped me with his Trapp line and I supplied him some Jones material. I hope his children are doing OK now. They were in a bad spot after his death. May God's blessing be with them now and always. There cousin, Bob Trapp
Dr Chet Snow
March 30, 2015
I realize it has been many years since cousin Mitch's passing; his genealogy site inspired me in 2013 and I am wondering if it has been moved or simply disappeared? My sincere condolences even belated to his family.
Genevieve
June 30, 2014
I am sorry to read of Mr. Jones death in 2006. I have found his contributions to Burton genealogy extremely helpful.
sherry krol
April 11, 2013
It's coming up on your birthday, Cousin. You are missed! What a wonderful legacy you have left me and all the members of the Mullican family. We shared your work at a mini-reunion occasioned by my Mom's 75th birthday. Too many have passed. I know you are having a blast meeting in person all those you kept in memory. Say hello to Grandma Gooden. I'll never forget you Cousin.
Gerald Jones
May 18, 2011
Dear Jones Family,
I am so sorry to find that Mr. Jones has passed in 2006 as I see this Obit for the first time in 2011. Mr. Jones freely shared his family line information with us after responding to a bulletin board inquiry. He tied us directly into his Family Tree line all the way back to Gen 1. Although I did not personnaly know him I know he was a great researcher and Family Man. Condolences on your loss. Gerald Jones [email protected]
Jean Taylor
January 10, 2011
I am a Mullican desendant and Mitch and I exchanged information many times. I hadn't done any genealogy in some time but wanted to reconnect with him. When his email was no longer valid I knew something had changed and did a search. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. I never met him but he was very gracious and helpful to me on-line. My deepest condolences to the family. Jean Taylor, Houston, TX
Doris (Dee) Wesser
April 5, 2007
I am so sorry to hear about Mitch's passing on. I just found out. Although I was never fortunate to meet Mitch I have known about him for years especially through my great-Aunt Nora Jones Steele who I know really cared about him. Mitch has helped me so much with the Jones and Prettyman lines. He will be missed by all.
Love to all of you and God Bless you
Great-granddaughter of Wade and Rebecca Bartlett Jones
Dee Bryant Wesser
Clara Mitchell
April 4, 2007
Mitch and I used to email each other alot of times about the Jones. He always was so pleasant and happy to help me with some informations and also when I got some good informations and shared them with him.
I emailed him a few weeks ago but I wondered why I didnt get his reply because he always replied right away. I now know why. I just learned tonight about his death. I will miss him so much and miss sharing the Jones informations, He was really a wonderful pleasant man.
I wish I had met him in person but will someday when it is my time.
Mitch, your name will be always remembered and honored at the Memorial Day events for the war veterans from Silver Point at the Silver Point cemetery every year.
Janelle Fisher Williams
January 19, 2007
I was wondering why I had not heard from Mitch and was so shocked to learn that he had passed on to be with the Heavenly Father. I will miss getting the E-Mails from Mitch, he was always so happy to share his information.
May God be with his family and it was a privilage to know him even if it was over the Internet.
Sue Chezem
January 7, 2007
I was so sad to hear this news. I never got to meet him..but exchanged alot of Prettyman information on line. He will be so missed.
My blessing to his family
Sue
DeJean Melton
January 6, 2007
I'm a distant Mullican cousin who met Mitch online. He was such a gracious correspondent, and I deeply appreciated him posting pictures of people and the land on his website. He was a thoughtful and skilled genealogist and I was proud of the connection. Prayers for your family and friends from here in Texas. I will be singing at another friend's funeral tomorrow, and part of me will be singing those dear old notes and words for Mitch.
Bob Trapp
December 31, 2006
John, Michelle, and Paul;
I was truly Saddened to hear of your fathers death. We met several years ago on the Internet and I had the pleasure of meeting one time in Smithville, when he had gone there to give a talk to the genealogy society there. I drove from my daughters home in Paducah, Kentucky just to meet him. He was always had so much love of family that I wanted to meet Mitch in person. When we met at the Potter Library he suggested a local restaurant we could talk at after the library
closed. Mitch, my wife and I sat up most of the night just talking about family and our children. One of the others things I remember most about that night was he love for his old alma mater as he drove up to the restaurant with those orange flags of his flying from the back windows of his car.
I just wanted to let all of you know that he will truly be missed. We were 6th cousins on the Trapp side of the family. There was never any question he was not able to help me with in whole or part.
My prayers and those of my family are with you and Mitch’s wife, Michelle at this time, may God keep and bless you all.
Your cousin,
Bob Trapp (a.k.a. Robert Arthur Trapp)
Audrey Lambert
December 27, 2006
Dear family of Mitch Jones,
Mitch was a wonderful sharing person that I met while researching my family and related families...the Jones was one of those families.
Mitch always answered my question if he was able to give me the answers or sources to find them.
I wish to express my condolences to his family, Mitch was a very special individual to find and converse with.
I am so sad to hear of his passing...he did alot for so many people and was very proud of his family.
Audrey J. (Denny) Lambert
Penolope Giacoletti
December 26, 2006
To the Jones Family: In your time of sorrow may you find comfort in knowing Mitch spent Christmas with Jesus this year. He was so proud of his children and their achievements and I know that he is sharing this with all the families he linked together.
Louvina Jones Tucker's ggggdaughter
David Willis
December 25, 2006
I am very saddened to hear of the passing of "Mitch" Jones. I became acquainted with Mitch on line, We exchanged e-mails over the years discussing the Prettyman, Jones and related families in our genealogical research. In so doing, we became good friends.
Mitch will be sadly missed by all who knew him.
Ralph Prettyman
December 21, 2006
Family and Friends of Mitch;
Please accept my deepest sympathy on the passing of Mitch. I just now learned of this and I am quite sad.
Mitch and I go back several years having exchanged phone calls, snail mail, and email on our family connections through the Jones and Prettyman families.
Mitch and I worked so very many hours on our Prettyman information (we were 9th cousins on the Prettyman side). He was an excellent researcher that will be sorely missed.
He spoke to me of his children and was a proud father. Since Paul and my son are about the same age, we often exchanged information about our boys.
His loss is premature and I hope that his memory will live on in many ways.
Yolanda Garrison
December 21, 2006
My deepest sympathies to you on the loss of Mitch. I can not remember a time in the numerous years that I have known Mitch when he was not extremely nice and helpful. My son had the priviledge to play baseball and attend ACD with Paul. I can not remember a moment when I saw Paul anywhere that Mitch was not there. Mitch truly was a wonderful father. Mitch you will be truly missed. May God bless you and your family during this time
Norman McGee
December 21, 2006
Michelle & Michelle, John, Paul & Janis, it saddens us greatly, that Mitch has passed away. We have fond memories of Mitch, Michelle and Paul in our home. Mitch touched many lives through his genealogical research. We are cousins, through our great, great grandfathers in both the Jones and Smith lines. Again, we are saddened with your loss. Kay and Norman McGee.
Aleathia James
December 20, 2006
I was so sad to hear of Mitch's passing. We were related through allied family lines and had corresponded many times through email.
My sympathies to his family. May you find some comfort in knowing that others care.
Ed Wright
December 18, 2006
My wife and I met Mitch at a Genealogy Conference about 25 years ago. He visited our booth where we were selling copies of our genealgy books on Delaware and other states. As he browsed our books he made a major discovery of Prettyman Jones. Many lively conversations ensued that day and on several occasions afterward. We alwys looked forward to his engaging manner and interesting stories. In recent years he sent us his work on the Jones family which we published along with other Delaware families. What a generous guy he was. And thoughtful. We and the genealogy community will miss him greatly.
Mike Adkins
December 17, 2006
I met Mitch through email and what he couldn't help me with on a Jones ancestor, he surely knew who to contact that could help me.
Dody Williams
December 17, 2006
John, Michelle & Paul,
I am so sorry, I know how it feels to loose your Dad. I trully want to be a part of your lives as I will see your Mom and Dad in each of your smiles. Hold your memories dear for they will live in your hearts forever and you will never be alone.
Many Hugs and Kisses to you all
Aunt Dody and Uncle Tom
Brenda Francis
December 17, 2006
I was so sorry to hear of Mitch's passing. I never had the pleasure of meeting him, but over time learned that his name in connection with genealogy was to be trusted! You are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Jane Brown
December 17, 2006
Although I never met Mitch in person, I knew him through our mutual interest in genealogy. The love he had for his family shone through on his home pages. I hope it comforts you to know that many, many people who never met him personally will mourn his passing.
Suzanne McIntosh
December 17, 2006
John,Michelle,and Paul
Please know that you are in my prayers during this time of grief.I love you guys!
Dody Williams
December 17, 2006
John, Michelle & Paul
Although I have not been in touch with you as I should and not having had the opportunity to meet you Paul, just know that you are in my thoughts and in my prayers. I truly hope that we can join together and talk about the ones we have loved and lost, for those memories will keep our loved ones in our hearts forever.
With Much Love,
Aunt Dody and Uncle Tom
Harlene Soper-Brown
December 17, 2006
Hearing of Mitch's passing was a shock. He was far too young.
I never met Mitch in person, but rather through emails and his website. We are distant cousins through our McGinnis line and our Atnip line. He was always very pleasant, knowledgeable and
helpful. He will be greatly missed.
May the Lord give you, his dear wife and children, strength to get through the difficult days. May you feel His love and the peace that passes all understanding. You are in my prayers.
Most Sincerely,
Harlene
Cheryl Davis-Holman
December 16, 2006
I can not tell you how much Mitch will be missed. I always looked forward to seeing him online and what great words he sent us all about our similar families.
Sorry for your loss and that loss is great for us all.
Much love,
Catherine Burr
December 16, 2006
I just discovered and reconnected with my entire Mullican family, mostly due to Mitch's pages on the Mullikin/Mullican line.
Even though a new cousin, Mitch dropped me a note - one because of an e-mail I sent him on Moon Mullican, and also to send him information on our branch of George Pinkney's line. He wrote to say he was interested, even though chemotherapy was keeping him from staying on top of such things. I can't adequately communicate to those of you who don't know my immediate family or our story well how much Mitch's work has meant, and will continue to mean.
I am sad to see him go before I got back to DeKalb County to visit where my line and his merged, and to thank him personally and in-person for all his work.
My aunt Bessie Mullican just died on Thanksgiving. I hope she gets to meet Mitch and discover all those things about our family he knew, as he will find another cousin to greet him... As another internet poster commenting on Mitch's passing so beautifully put it, "he will really get all the branches connected now".
May God help you who knew and loved him more personally in what must be such a great time of loss. Know that he touched one person in his last three months so deeply in a great expression of the word "family".
Ruth Linder
December 16, 2006
John, Michelle, and Paul
You do not have to be told how special your father was! He was proud of his heritage, roots, and family.
Couldn't keep it contained and let all of his friends know of your achievements. We had fun teasing about his head getting bigger with each success you children had!
You know you were his pride and joy!
Ruth
Max Puckett
December 16, 2006
I wish to express my sincerest condolences for Mitch's passing. Thanks to his knowledge, kindness, and willingness to share family history, I have become much more aware of my Silver Point roots and Tennessee heritage. Cousin Mitch will be missed. I hope to meet him again someday at the great family reunion.
Lynda Ridall
December 16, 2006
When I was blue or homesick for Tennessee I would look at the pictures of Mitch's property and listen to "Rocky Top." Mitch was a distant cousin through the Cantrells and helped me with genealogy. He will be sorely missed. May God bless Mitch's family.
Lynda Ridall
Ann Brown
December 16, 2006
John, Michelle, and Paul,
In case you missed it, this is the letter that I sent to the DeKalb Co. TN and Atnip lists. I miss him deeply - not many friends like him. We all have fond memories which we'll always treasure.
I was just notified that a very dear friend and Atnip, Allen, Page cousin of mine passed away today. D. Mitchell Jones, known as Mitch to his friends, will be dearly missed. He has posted many times to this list and loved genealogy and this county and our Atnip heritage. Though he lived in Florida, Mitch was always a Tennessian at heart. I doubt if there are many on this list, who were not 'touched in some way' by Mitch's postings. He was always searching for the truth. For those of us, who were lucky enough to have met him personally or had a chance to get to know him, we were truly blessed. We will never forget him.
Please remember his three children in prayer - John, Michelle and Paul.
Though we will probably get an obituary in the next day or two ( I just didn't feel it would be sufficient for a man who meant so much to so many of us), Mitch is best remembered for his love for his family, love for Tennessee (especially DeKalb Co., area and the Silver Point area in particuiar), the Vols, his tribute to America, the Boy Scouts, his interest in the civil war, and his interests in his son's baseball and band. His children were his life. He loved them dearly and he was proud of all three of them. They always came first in his life.
I'll never forget when I met him personally and it was like I had known him always. We used to share many messges on the messenger and the weekly e-mails were numerous. Many times he would message me, "Ann, can you do a graphic for me? Need one for Paul's new baseball team, Need a banner for my direct ancestors. Need to show my beautiful Tennessian Land." "Got a new idea for a new webiste for the Atnip site. Going to visit Ephrata Cloister - want some photos? Get the site ready?" When Mitch asked for something, there was never any hesitation. Will miss you my dear friend,
Ann (Jobe) Brown
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