Jones married Marceline, a nurse, with whom he had one biological son, Stephan Gandhi Jones.
[44] Jim and Marcy Jones also were the first white couple in Indiana to adopt an African American child, James Warren Jones, Jr.
[45]
In addition, the couple adopted children from varied ethnic backgrounds, including three children of Korean-American ancestry (Lew, Suzanne and Stephanie) and a part Native American daughter (Agnes).
[46][47] Jones referred to them as his rainbow family, and stated: "Integration is a more personal thing with me now. It's a question of my son's future."
[48] The couple also adopted another son, Tim.
[49]
Stephan, Jim, Jr. and Tim did not take part in the mass suicide because they were in Georgetown playing with the Peoples Temple
basketball team against the Guyanese national team.
[50][43] Three days before the tragedy, Stephan refused over the radio to comply with an order by his father to return the team to Jonestown for Ryan's visit.
[51]
Lew and Agnes died in the tragedy at Jonestown.
[52][53] Stephanie died at age 5 in a car accident.
[54] After Suzanne left and turned against the Temple, Jim Jones referred to her openly as "my goddamned no good for nothing daughter" and stated she was not to be trusted.
[55] In a signed note found at the time of her death, Marceline Jones directed that the Jones' funds were to be given to the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union and specified that "I especially request that none of these are allowed to get into the hands of my adopted daughter, Suzanne Jones Cartmell."
[56] Suzanne was not in Jonestown during the tragedy and died in November of 2006.
[57]
Jones also claimed to be the biological father of John Victor Stoen, although the birth certificate lists Timothy and Grace Stoen as the parents of the boy.
[58] The Temple repeatedly claimed that Jones fathered the child when, in 1971, Tim Stoen had requested that Jones have sex with Grace Stoen to keep her from defecting.
[59] The custody dispute over John Stoen would be the lynchpin of several battles between the Temple and the Concerned Relatives.
[60] Specific references to Tim Stoen, including the logistics of possibly murdering him, are made on the Temple's final "death tape," as well as a discussion over whether the Temple should include John Stoen among those committing "revolutionary suicide."
[38]
Stephan is currently a businessman and family man who is married with three daughters. He appeared in the documentary
Jonestown: Paradise Lost which aired on the
History Channel and
Discovery Channel. He stated he will not watch the documentary and that he does not mourn his father, only his mother Marceline.
[61] Jim, Jr., who lost his wife and unborn child at Jonestown, returned to San Francisco. He remarried and has three sons from this marriage.
[43]
There is no child named Levi here unless he changed it.