Ann Strachan Jones

(1808-1850)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Ann Strachan Jones was born in 1808, in Smithfield, VA, USA. She died on November 27, 1850. Ann Strachan Jones death was recorded as November 27, 1850. It was also recorded as October 21, 1851 [1].

Places of Residence

• Rose Hill Plantation in Granville County, NC, from 1834. On the occasion of Ann Strachan Jones marriage to John Joseph Speed in 1830, her wealthy father, John Wesley Jones, gave the couple a plantation near Buffalo Springs as a wedding gift. In 1834, John Joseph Speed built Rose Hill Plantation which remained in the Speed family until 1890.
• Smithfield, VA, USA, from 1808.

Relatives

• Parent: John Wesley Jones.
• Spouse: John Joseph Speed (1803-1870), married from September 19, 1825 to November 27, 1850. The couple married in Mecklenburg County.
  Children:
  
  • four sons, John Speed [1], Robert A. Speed (b. 1831) [1], John S. Speed (b. 1835) and Henry Goodridge Speed (1845-1864).
  • five daughters, Rosalie Speed, Sallie Speed (b. 1833), Isabella Speed (b. 1841), Nannie Speed (b. 1848) and Jane Speed (1838-1878) .
• Others: Alfred Boyd (grandson, b. 1869), Bertie Boyd (grandson, b. 1873), Jennie Boyd (granddaughter, b. 1868), Lizzie Boyd (granddaughter, b. 1862), Mary Boyd (granddaughter, b. 1870), Nannie Boyd (granddaughter, b. 1865), Rosa Boyd (granddaughter, b. 1871) and Willie Boyd (grandson, b. 1872).

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).