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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: BIOS #7931 THRU 7935 - JONES
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:35:13 -0600

Here a few of the Jones' boys which I hope will be of a help! I have no
connection and no further information. Sandi

7931 BOURBON CO - JONES, JOHN W - Jones, Collins, Bridges, Moreland
7932 CALDWELL CO - JONES, C C - Jones, Bowers, Howard
7933 DAVIESS CO - JONES, WILLIAM J - Jones, Shields
7934 MUHLENBERG CO - JONES, WILLIAM G - Jones, Hawkins, Logan, Gidding,
Robertson, Wright, Handcock
7935 TODD CO - JONES, ELIJAH N - Jones, Wilkins, Johnson, Lindsey, Harned,
Brusher

#7931: HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1237-38. [Bourbon County] JOHN W. JONES--One of the steadfast and
popular financial institutions of Bourbon county is the North Middletown
Deposit Bank, and the same is favored in having as one of its executives
John W. Jones, who is the efficient incumbent of the office of cashier and
who is numbered among the essentially representative citizens and business
men of the younger generation in his native county. Mr. Jones was born on
the family homestead, in North Middletown precinct, Bourbon county, on the
24th of November, 1884, and is a son of William S. and Emma (Collins)
Jones, concerning whom specific mention is made on other pages of this
work, so that a repetition of the data concerning the family genealogy and
the noteworthy career of the honored father is not demanded in the present
article. John W. Jones was reared to the invigorating discipline of the
farm, and after completing the curriculum of the public schools he entered
the Kentucky Classical & Business College, at North Middletown, in which
well ordered institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903.
Soon afterward he assumed the position of bookkeeper in the North
Middletown Deposit Bank, and after retaining this incumbency for several
months he returned to the home farm, with whose management he continued to
be actively associated until November, 1907, when he resumed the position
of bookkeeper in the bank. Definite recognition of his ability and
effective services was that accorded in January, 1909, when he was advanced
to the office of assistant cashier. In this position he manifested marked
facility in the directing and handling of the executive details of the
business, and the official estimate of the same was significantly shown in
April, 1910, when he was chosen cashier of the institution, an office in
which he has amply justified the confidence thus reposed in him and in
which he did much to facilitate and expand the business of the bank. He is
a young man of progressive ideas and sterling character and he has won to
himself the high regard of those with whom he has come in contact in
business and social circles. Though never an aspirant for public office,
Mr. Jones is loyal to all civic duties and responsibilities and his
political allegiance is given to the Democrat party. Both he and his wife
are active and valued members of the Christian church in North Middletown
and they are prominent in connection with the best social affairs of the
community. On the 23rd of February, 1910, was solemnized the marriage of
Mr. Jones to Miss Beulah E. Bridges, who was born in Franklin county, this
state, on the 27th of November, 1884, and who is a daughter of Benjamin F.
and Sarah R. (Moreland) Bridges, now residents of Georgetown, Scott county.

#7932: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed.,
1885 Caldwell Co. C.C. JONES was born October 27, 1847, near the village of
Scottsburg, in Caldwell Co., Ky. His father, Noflet, a native of North
Carolina, was born in 1816, and came to Tennessee when quite young. His
mother, Harriet (Bowers) Jones (deceased) was a native of Tennessee. They
were parents of eight children, of whom our subject is the fourth. C.C.
Jones has spent the greater part of his life in farm pursuits. He enlisted
in Company C, Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, United States army,
September 20, 1864, and served just one year, when he was honorably
discharged at Louisville. While in the service and sick at Bowling Green of
varioloid and typhus fever, he lay in a stable in preference to going to
the hospital, for nearly a week, living on hazel nuts. He is now suffering
from the effects of his exposure in the war. In 1872 he opened a small
store in Scottsburg, which he still controls. January 2, 1873, he was
united in marriage to Miss Martha E. Howard. This union has been blessed
with the following named children: Hugh, born December 17, 1873, died
November 25, 1876; Harmon, born September 17, 1875; Ires May, born
September 29, 1877; Mattie M., born October 31, 1879; Artilia F., born
January 8, 1882; Firman, born January 16, 1883. Mr. Jones is an
enthusiastic Republican.

#7933: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 646.
WILLIAM J. JONES was born in Spencer County, Ky., April 27, 1827. When six
years of age his parents went to Clark County, Ill., and lived three years;
then moved to Jefferson County, Ky. In 1876 he came to Daviess County,
where he has a farm of seventy acres, eight miles south of Owensboro, on
the Calhoun road. He was married in 1851 to Sarah A. Shields, a native of
Spencer County, Ky., born in 1837. They have six children--William H.,
George S., Sarah A., Eliza B., Fannie and Maggie.

#7934: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd
ed., 1885, Muhlenberg Co. WILLIAM G. JONES, Muhlenburgh [sic] County, was
born July 4, 1813, in Bourbon County, Ky., and is the eldest of twelve
children born to Strother and Elizabeth Ann (Jones) Jones, natives of
Spottsylvania County, Va., and Baltimore County, Md., respectively, of
Irish origin. The grandfather was Thomas Jones, who married Nancy Hawkins;
he was born and reared in Virginia; was a soldier of the Revolution, a
member of Morgan's riflemen; came to Kentucky about 1780, and settled in
Bourbon County, Ky.; was in the battle of Blue Lick, under Gen. Logan. The
great grandmother of subject died in Bourbon County, about 1823, at the age
of one hundred and eight years; she was born in Ireland. The mother of our
subject was the daughter of Abraham Jones, who married Polly Gidding, born
and reared in Baltimore County, Md., and of English and Welsh descent
respectively. William G., with his parents, moved to Muhlenburgh County in
1820, and settled where he now resides, and purchased 600 acres of land.
William G. Jones was reared on a farm, and received a common school
education; he returned to Fayette County, and attended school about four
years; engaged in teaching two years; returned to Muhlenburgh County, and
taught several years until 1840, when he was appointed deputy sheriff for
two years; assessor two years; again engaged in teaching until 1854, when
he was elected county judge, and re-elected in 1858. After his term of
office expired, he located and has lived constantly where he now resides
and engages in farming on 250 acres. He was married in August, 1885, to
Rebecca S. Robertson, of Muhlenburgh County, a daughter of John and
Charlotte (Wright) Robertson, born and reared in Muhlenburgh County, of
Irish and Dutch and English origin, respectively. Mrs. Jones died in
August, 1871, a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Jones was formerly a
Granger; his father died in 1859, in February, aged seventy-eight years; he
had been twice married, his second wife was Nancy Handcock.

#7935: History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A.
Battey Publishing Co., 1884, Page 273. [Fairview Precinct] ELIJAH N. JONES,
a prominent and enterprising citizen of Todd County, was born October 26,
1837, in Fairview District, Todd County, Ky. He is the second of thirteen
children--five boys and eight girls--ten still living, born to Isaac H. and
Anna (Wilkins) Jones, natives of Indiana and Todd County, Ky.,
respectively, the mother of Irish descent. Subject's early advantages for
an education were poor; he attended school about two years in all. He was
reared on the farm and lived with his parents till [sic] his marriage on
December 23, 1858, to Miss Harriet A. Lindsey, of Todd County, daughter of
John and Martha (Johnson) Lindsey. Ten children were born to this union:
Martha Jane, now wife of T. M. Harned, William H., Lucy B. (deceased), Mary
A., the wife of L. D. Brusher, Cittie A., Ida E., Thomas E., Hattie E.
(deceased), Dora May and Daisy. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the
Baptist Church. The former has been clerk of the church for the past ten
years; has also been Deputy County Clerk by appointment for about fourteen
years. He located after his marriage where he now resides on fifty acres of
land given him by his father. He has had uniform success during life; he
now owns 330 acres, 200 in a good state of cultivation. The land was
timber. By his own hand he has cleared and raised it to its present
condition. Mr. Jones has made all by his own industry and is a highly
respected citizen and neighbor. His grandparents, on both sides, were among
the first settlers of Christian and Todd Counties, Ky.

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