John Craven Jones and his wife Almira Scott
John Craven Jones and his wife Almira Scott became progenitors of a long line of distinguished educators and professionals.

Their daughter Madge became head of Guilford County Negro Schools, in North Carolina, USA. [FOOTNOTE 1]

Madge Jones married H.H. Falkner, a North Carolina Senator before Reconstruction. H.H. Falkner was also one of six original teachers at the all-Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (A&T [FOOTNOTE 2]) in Greensboro, a city close to Tarboro, where John Craven Jones and his wife Almira taught for 20 years, after he left Salt Spring Island in the mid-1870's. [FOOTNOTE 2]

Madge's son, Waldo C. Falkner, was the second African American to be elected to the Greensboro City Council.

Waldo's wife, Margaret Evans, acted as co-chair for Shirley Chisolm's campaign for Presidency in 1972.
Margaret also taught English at A&T College. [FOOTNOTE 3]

[FOOTNOTE 1]
North Carolina continued to maintain totally segregated schools until the 1950s; by 1965, all of the schools in the county were desegregated.

[FOOTNOTE 2]
North Carolina "mandated a separate college for the colored race" - it first opened in 1893 as The North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College For the Colored Race.

[FOOTNOTE 3]
(A&T was elevated to University status in 1967) One of Margaret Evans' students was Jesse Jackson, the African American civil rights activist and Baptist Minister; Dr. Martin Luther King became Jackson's mentor, and Jackson, in turn, became one of King's closest co-workers; in 1984 and again in 1988 Jesse Jackson was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.