Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Jones, J. C. about 1828 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. C. JONES is a son of Julius and Martha (Walker) Jones, the former of whom
was a resident of Madison county, Tenn., having moved there from North Carolina
in the early part of the present century. He followed farming, and reared his
family in that county. At the age of twenty-one, J. C. Jones came to Alabama
from Madison county, Tenn., and settled in Talladega county, near Brownville. He
came south for the purpose of putting up a mill, and during his lifetime he
erected nearly every mill that was erected in the county. Two years after he
came to Alabama, on October 2, 1851, he married Angelina G. Love, near
Brownville. She was the daughter of Archibald and Isabella P. (Graham) Love. The
Love family came originally from North Carolina, but came through Florida on
their way to Alabama. On the Graham side she was connected with the numerous
family of that name throughout the south, many of whom have been prominent in
political life. She was born in Quincy, Gadsden county, Fla., and came with her
family to Alabama in 1836, which settled in Talladega county at Brownville,
where she was reared and married to Mr. Jones. To this marriage there have been
born eleven children, viz.: Laura, wife of A. K. McCloud of Bradford, Ala.;
Ella, deceased; Evanda G., a lawyer at Rockford, Ala.; Julius, a physician at
Rockford, Ala.; Walter, deceased; Mattie, widow of L. N. Darsey, who lives with
her parents; Thomas Henry, living at home; Emmie L., single; Willis Watt, at
home; Charles T., at home, and Jennie C., deceased. Mr. Jones lived at
Brownville for some time, and afterward at different places, where business
rendered it necessary, and for the last four years he has lived at Rockford.
Evanda was born December 19, 1855, in Coosa county, and acquired through the aid
of the common schools and his own study a good literary education. He began the
study of the law in the office of L. E. Parsons, now district attorney, in 1883,
and was admitted to the bar in 1884. He has since then practiced law at this
place. He has been chairman of the county democratic executive committee for
about eight years. He was married in 1888 at Rockford to Miss Carrie McDonald,
daughter of Thomas McDonald, a proimnent merchant in Rockford. By this marriage
he has two children, Vesta Love and Kathleen. Politically Mr. Jones is a
democrat. He. is a royal arch Mason and a king of the chapter, and he is
worshipful. master of the Blue lodge at Rockford. Julius Jones was born March 5,
1858, in Coosa county, Ala. After receiving a fine literary education he began
to read medicine with Dr. J. B. Kelly of Coosa county, in 1882, and attended
lectures at Vanderbilt university in 1883 and 1884, graduating in the class of
1884, which contained 300 members, he being valedictorian of his class. He
settled for the practice of medicine at Rockford and has since been in practice
there. He was married December 12, 1888, at Rockford to Miss Mattie McDonald, by
whom he has had two children: McDonald, deceased, and a baby not named, also
deceased. Politically Mr. Jones is a democrat, and is a member of the county
executive committee. He is a master Mason and is junior deacon of his lodge. He
is a member of the Kappa Alpha society, is member of Knights of Pythias, prelate
of his lodge, and also of the Baptist church. He is a member of the State
Medical association, and is secretary of the Coosa County Medical society. Dr.
Jones has a fine practice, and is regarded as one of the best physicians in
Rockford. Evanda Jones is especially strong as a judge of law, has a large
practice, and is one of the most active and energetic men in the place. Their
wives are sisters and are much more than ordinarily beautiful and accomplished
women. The Jones family is an old and highly respectable one, and the members of
it mentioned in this memoir are not disposed to permit its reputation to be in
any way lowered by any act or failure to act on. their part.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 727-728



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