Some have said that he was the C. D. Jones listed on the monument. Others have said he was really one John Black. To date more information has been found. Although the Carlos Jones of Northumberland County VA detailed as above, he might not be the Carlos Jones of Smith's Island. The Carlos Jones of Smith's Island had arrived there before 1870 and married.
More research remains to be done.
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