Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Jones, R. A. December 10 1842 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 27, 2004, 9:38 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) R. A. JONES, a wealthy citizen of Bridgeport, Ala., was born in Madison county, Ala., December 10, 1842, and removed to Jackson county, Ala., with his parents when an infant. Leaving school at the age of nineteen, he entered the service of the Confederacy in May, 1861, as a private soldier in company A, Thirty-third Alabama infantry, serving in the following battles: Liberty Gap, Bragg's retreat from Tennessee, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge. Ringgold Gap, Rasaca, Rocky Face Ridge, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, and Franklin, at which he was slightly wounded and captured. He was taken to Camp Douglas and held until the war closed six months later. After his release he returned to Jackson county, and followed farming for a year, and then established himself in mercantile business at Bridgeport, continuing in that line until 1890, since which time he has been looking after his interests in Bridgeport, which are mainly concentrated in the Bridgeport Land and Improvement company, of which he is now a director, and of which he has been treasurer. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is a steward and a trustee of his church. He was married December 9, 1869, to Eliza C. Glover, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Copeland) Glover, and to this marriage have been born two children, viz.: Lillie, died in infancy, and Ollie May, wife of F. H. Edmunds, of Bridgeport. The father of Mr. Jones, Charles Jones, was born in Virginia, and came to Alabama when a young man, and died in Jackson county in 1850, when about fifty years old. He was a trustee of the university of Alabama at the time of his death. He served as a soldier in the Florida war. He married Delia Jones, by whom he had seven children, viz.: Jasper J., who served as captain of company A, Thirty-third Alabama infantry, and afterward as register in chancery, which office he held at the time of his death; Marion N., a lieutenant in the Thirty-third Alabama infantry, now deceased; Bradley C., who served in the Fourth Alabama cavalry, now living in Jackson county; P. P., who died in the service as a member of the Thirty-third Alabama infantry; R. A.; Mary J.; Sallie E., wife of Thomas Dickens, of South Pittsburg, Tenn. The father of Mrs R. A. Jones was Samuel Glover, a native of England. Her mother was a native of North Carolina. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1140-1141 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb