The First 10 Generations

In an attempt to find out more about Dr. W.W. Jones, I stumbled upon a geneology site that had some very interesting information. I have begun with that information for the first six generations. The information is incomplete, but gives a fair picture of the lineage of the Floyd/Jones families, and makes for some very interesting reading.


Generation 1. In 1623 Nathaniel Floyd and his brother Walter Floyd emigrate to the Eastern shore of the colonies from Wales. By 1675 Walter had obtained 400 acres of land in Martin’s Hundred, and Nathaniel had obtained 850 acres in Northampton and Accomac. It is believed that all Floyd families in Virginia -Kentucky are descended from these two brothers. (arlisherring.com)



Generation 2. In 1675 John Floyd has large land holdings (2200 acres) in Northampton and Accomac County, Virginia. His brothers William, Charles, and Fredrick also are living there. (ibid)



Generation 3. Charles son, Samuel Floyd (born ca. 1718 in Northampton) and his wife Susan Dixon Floyd become parents to Charles Floyd (born 1747). Samuel and Susan die on the same day, either from an Indian attack or because they were thrown from a cart when a horse bolted. Charles goes to live with an uncle. (ibid)



Generation 4. William and Esther had four children: Matthew Floyd (born before 1771, died about 1806; William Floyd, born about 1774; John Kendall Floyd, born about 1777, died 1843; and Ann Elizabeth Floyd. (ibid)



Generation 5. John Kendall Floyd married Ann Stockley Teackle (born February 17, 1786, died April 19, 1846) in 1802 at Northampton, Virginia in. John and Ann had six children: Catherine Stockley Floyd, William Stockley Floyd, Esther Littleton Floyd, John Floyd (died young), John Teackle Floyd (born 1812, died 1865), James F. Floyd. (ibid)



Generation 6. Catherine Stockley Floyd married Thomas Jones (aka W. J. Jones). Their children were: John Floyd Jones, Wilson W. Jones, Kittie Jones, and Allie Jones. (ibid)



In 1826 a second son was welcomed to the family of Thomas Jones and Catherine Stockley Floyd Jones in Hampton Island, Virginia. He was christened Wilson Walker Jones. (Dad’s Memoirs)



The Joneses were a wealthy, plantation-owning family, that raised tobacco and silk worms. Living in this environment provided Wilson and his siblings with all the comforts of the time. (ibid)



At the age of 16, in 1841, Wilson entered William & Mary College in Williamsburg, and graduated at the age of 18 in 1843. He later entered Maryland Medical College and eventually graduated with a degree in medicine. (ibid)



While furthering his medical experience in Germany, Wilson became interested in the cholera epidemic in China, and spent some time there studying the disease. (ibid)



Eventually he sailed back to America, landing in California in 1853. There, he purchased a vast amount of land, and owned what is now Burbank and surrounding areas. He held the office of Deputy County Clerk under the states first County Recorder, Benjamin Davis Wilson. On June 12, 1855 W. W. (as he was now known) was elected to the California legislature.



In 1864 Dr. Jones (who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis) moved to Yuma, Arizona where he met Arcadia (aka Alcaria) Montano (born 12/12/1846). Arcadia/Alcaria was a native of Altar, Sonora, Mexico. She had been passing through Yuma with her family on the way to California when she was hired to care for the small children of two army officers. She remained there in that capacity until Dr. Jones married her.



Arcadia was eighteen years of age when she married the thirty-eight years old Jones. At the time of his marriage, he was listed in the Fort Mohave Census as a mineralogist. In 1871 he petitioned to build a corduroy road over the sand dunes near Yuma. (That road was built, and parts of it can still be seen today in the ever-drifting dunes.)





Dr. Jones, seeing an opportunity in the freighting business into Arizona territory, borrowed money on his California property and bought mule teams and wagons for a freight line. The base of his operations was in Ehrenberg on the Colorado River. Freight came there from La Paz, across the Colorado from Yuma via riverboat steamers. then his freight line hauled the freight, mostly by government contract, to old Fort Whipple, Prescott, Camp Verde, and Phoenix.


From Books of the Southwest, Chapter VII - Outrages by Indians (Uof A Library) we find this:
"April 1st [1871], near Camp Date Creek; a large party of Indians attacked a train of five wagons, four belonging to Dr. W.W. Jones, and one to Henry Lachman. The savages killed Mr. Lachman, wounded another man, plundered the wagons, and drove off the animals."


In June 1872 newspaper accounts relate the story of how he and Michael and Joe Goldwater were attacked by Indians. He was in the freighting business with Michael Goldwater at the time.



From the book History of Arizona, Volume 6 by Thomas Edwin Farish (published 1918) we read this:



“In 1872 while driving along the road from Prescott to Ehrenberg, in company with Dr. W.W. Jones, Joe and Mike Goldwater were attacked by Indians. An account of this is given in the Arizona Sentinel of June 22, 1872.



“A party of three gentlemen, Dr. W. W. Jones and Joe and Mike Goldwater, all of Ehrenberg, left Prescott in the latter part of last week on their way home. These gentlemen were traveling in two buggies. They had not traveled more than fourteen miles, in the vicinity of Mint Valley, when they were attacked by a band of not less than thirty Indians, supposed to be the ever murderous Apaches. The three gentlemen could of course offer no resistance, and their only means of escape was to outrun them. The Indians pursued them for about four miles on the road, when fortunately they met a party of whites traveling in the direction of Prescott, which caused the savages to abandon the chase, and, in turn, seek security in their mountain holds. During this cowardly attack Joe Goldwater was shot in the back, somewhere near the shoulder blade; his brother Mike, had two balls put through the rim of his hat, and Dr. Jones escaped with only a few bullet holes through his shirt and coat. They drove to Skull Valley, about eighteen miles, where Dr. Jones examined the wound received by Mr. Goldwater, probed it, but up to the next day, when the buckboard came by, the ball had not been found.”



While living in Prescott Dr. Jones loaned money to an attorney named Wormser. Again from the book History of Arizona we find this account:



“”While still around Prescott, Wormser, although reputed a shrewd and thrifty business man had, at one time, been very hard up for money, and had gone to his friend Dr. W.W. Jones of Wickenburg, for financial help. Dr. Jones loaned him a goodly sum on his personal note. Time passed, the note became due, and finally outlawed. Wormser’s luck was still against him, and money was scarce. Then he came to the Salt River Valley, recouped his fortune by lucky investments, and remembered the outlawed note due Dr. Jones, who then lived in Tempe, and was often in Phoenix. Dr. Jones was a Virginian by birth, of proud bearing and distinguished lineage, who, at an early day, had sought his fortune in the west. Although a man of education and culture, when he reached Arizona he became as one, to the manor born, and, in outer accoutrements, differed not at all from the hardy pioneers about him. Upon engaging him in conversation, however, his scholastic attainments and gentlemanly training became immediately apparent. He was a man of great kindness of heart, and was universally esteemed by all who knew him....



“One day, while walking along Washington Street in Phoenix, he met Wormser, who on this occasion, stopped him and said: “Doctor, I owe you some money.” Dr. Jones recalling the loan which he had long since charged up on the side of his losses, agreed with him. “Doctor,” said Wormser, after some hesitation, if you will knock off de interest on dat money, I vill pay you de principal.” Dr. Jones could be disdainful and scornful when he so desired, and, on this occasion, he merely looked with contempt at the portly merchant and, turning on his heels, walked away. Wormser, crestfallen, also continued on his way. Several months after the occurrence of this incident, the two men again met near the same place and Wormser again spoke to Dr. Jones. “Doctor,” he said, “if you vill come down to my office, I vill pay you dat money, both the principal and de interest.” Dr. Jones replied he would do so, and, in time, visited his debtor, when he received every cent due him. After this episode no one could question Wormser’s integrity in the presence of Dr. Jones without arousing the latter’s ire, since he had a practical demonstration of Mr. Wormser’s honesty in his payment of this outlawed debt.”



Generation 7. On June 7, 1875 W.W. and Arcadia became parents for the first time, with the birth of a daughter, Katherine (Kate). They would eventually have five more daughters and one son: Pastora (Anna), Juaquina (Quina), Jacoba (Jake), Margaret (Maggie, born 1877, died 2/7/1985 at 105 yrs.), Laura, and John Floyd (born ca. 1882). John Floyd would die at the age of thirty-nine in 1920 without having ever married. He had an infected tooth extracted and then, against the dentist’s orders, went out and moved cattle in the rain. The infection overpowered his system and he died.



In 1878 Dr. Jones sold the Vulture Mine near Wickenburg for $80,000. He used this to purchase land along the Salt River west of Tempe and a ranch at Blue Point. He also built a house in Phoenix at what is now 1008 East Buckeye Road, located near Sky Harbor Airport. He owned a section of land between Seventh Street and Sky Harbor in Phoenix and a half section of land east of Tempe.



In moving to the Tempe area, the Joneses became members of a group of several prominent married couples who were of mixed (Anglo/Mexican) cultures: Winchester Miller and Maria Soltelo, James T. Priest and Mariana Gonzalez, Dwight “Red” Hawkins and Alicia Peralta, and Frederick Dick and Rosa Pauline Jaime. (http://www.barriozona.com)





In the 1880s he established a cow ranch at Coon’s Bluff.



In the 1890s he established a ranch known as Jones Well in the Queen Creek area.



During the Spanish-American War, Dr. Jones sold horses to the government.



In January, 1896, Dr. Jones became ill while at the Jones Well ranch. He was taken by wagon to the home of his friend, Winchester Miller, in Tempe, but died of pneumonia just as the wagon arrived at the Miller home, which was located at what is now the corner of Scottsdale Drive and University. Dr. Jones was sixty-nine years old when he died on January 7. He is buried in Double Butte Cemetery.



After his death, his widow had a home built in 1900 at what is currently 708 South Lindon Lane in Phoenix, where she finished raising her children. Arcadia/Alcaria died August 21, 1923 at the age of 77.



Generation 8. Jesus Gomez was born March 3, 1863 in Bavispe, Sonora, Mexico. As a boy he was kidnapped by Apaches, and lived with them for a time.. Later he served as an army scout under Generals George S. Crook and Nelson A. Miles during the Apache campaigns, and was one of the soldiers present at Geronimo’s surrender. He worked for years for W.W. and Arcadia, handling their cattle and horses.



In 1896 Jesus married Katherine Jones at the Gila Chapel in Florence, AZ. They had the first of their in five children in 1900, a son, John Floyd Gomez, born September 15. Two more boys, George (died 12/28/70) and Ralph (born 9/14/1910, died 6/15/64); and two girls, Mary, and Inez (born 11/11/11, died 1/27/66), would follow. When her mother died in 1928, Katherine inherited the home on Lindon Lane. It remained in the family until it was sold to the Cook Christian Training School in 1965. Jesus died March 29, 1940. Katherine died April 16, 1947.



Generation 9. John Floyd Jones Gomez, the oldest child of Jesus and Katherine Gomez would establish himself with the name Floyd J. Gomez in his adult life. He grew up learning the cowboy trade from his father, his Uncle John, and Pancho Monroy. He participated in his first round-up when he was 11 years old. Later he looked after his father’s cattle on the Agua Escondido and Cottonwood ranches.



Through the years he worked driving teams of horses grading roads, delivering meat for Tovrea Packing Company, buying and selling cattle. He spent his life on the desert with the cattle he knew so well.



He married Victoria Soto Leon and together they had six children: Helen Floyd, Isabel (born 6/21/32, Victoria Irene (born 2/21/37), Raymond Floyd (born and died 1939),  John Floyd (born 11/18/40), and Charlene Josephine (born 1943).



Generation 10. Helen married Rocky Tramont.  They had six children:  Louis, Victor, Joseph, Roseann, Marina, and Mark.  Isabel married Alfred Guillen.  They had two children:  Fred and Linda.  (Victoria) Irene married Maurice Hormell.  They had four sons:  Stanley, Robert, Rocky, and Patrick.  (John) Floyd married Jaema Johnston.  They had seven children:  John Floyd III, Anna Louise, Thomas Robert, Eric Leo, Alice Irene, Victoria Katherine, and Nicholas George.  Charlene married kenneth Landreth.  They have three children:  Clifford, Clinton, and Christina.


Generation 11:  Is up to you!