Succession of Jones

Elijah J. Jones, a frugal colored man, resident of Natchitoches Parish for many years prior to his death on the 31st day of October, 1947, left an estate in the parish consisting of a tract of improved land containing fifty (50) acres, more or less, and personal property. It appears that he married but once and that the wife of that marriage survived him. He left no forced heirs and his nearest collateral relations were two brothers, Shelton and Clinton Jones, and two sisters, Beulah Jones Williams and Annie Jones Simmons.

On December 26, 1946, the deceased executed a last will and testament…