The Jenkin Jones family grave site is located in the Oak Hill Cemetery at the Riverside Baptist Church (formerly known as the Bluestone Baptist Church) in Freeman, WV. It is believed that thieves stole the bronze markers off the graves by prying them loose from the concrete slabs covering the vaults. Aftwards, some kind soul etched some basic information into the slabs.

Jenkin Jones' daughter, Mary Llewellyn Jones, is in a separate vault near the back wall of the Jones family cemetery plot. Another son of Jenkin's , James Ellwood Jones, was creamated. James is the son who built the historic mansion on the hillside at Switchback, near Maybeury, WV.

Jenkin Jones was born at Glyn Neath, Wales on Sept. 25, 1839. He came to the U. S. in 1863, and worked as a coal miner in Pennsylvania before moving to West Virginia, where he developed coal mines. Jones and John Freeman formed a partnership which opened the Caswell Creek Coal and Coke Co. and later, with Isaac T. Mann, they operated Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co.

Material furnished by Elbert "Dizzy" Harris, BHS Class '56