Anissa Jones

Mary Anissa Jones (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971. She died from a drug overdose, five years after the show ended. Mary Anissa Jones was born in West Lafayette, Indiana, and was raised in Charleston, West Virginia, until the age of five. Her maternal grandparents were Lebanese. At the time of her birth, Jones' father, John Paul Jones, was an engineering graduate and f...