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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  HENRY C. JONES, Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial District of Alabama, son of
William S. and Ann (Coy) Jones, natives of the State of Virginia and of English
descent, was born in Franklin County, this State, January 23, 1821.

  The Jones family was among the early colonial settlers of Virginia, and H. C.
Jones' grandfather, Thomas S. Jones, is known in the history of the United
States as a gallant colonel in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Jones' father came to
Alabama in 1813, settled in Madison County, and moved from there to Franklin
County in 1819, where he died in 1874, at the age of seventy-six years. He
reared a family of four sons and three daughters, all of whom are now living.

  Henry C. Jones was educated primarily at the country schools, graduated from
LaGrange College in 1840, read law under Professor Tutwiler at that college and
the Hon. Daniel Coleman, of Athens, and was admitted to the bar in Franklin
County, in 1841. Soon after coming to the bar—in fact, during the same year he
was elected Probate Judge of Franklin, and resigned the office at the end of
eighteen months to go to the Legislature. In speaking of Judge Jones, another
writer says: "Judge Jones brought into the Legislature a mind well cultivated
and practical, with ready speaking abilities, and soon became one of the active
business members. After serving many years in the House, he was transferred to
the Senate, exhibiting maturity of mind, and legislative talent, which gave him
prominence in the deliberations of that body. He was a Democrat, and entered
fully into the councils of the party. In 1861, he was a member of the State
Convention called upon the election of Mr. Lincoln, and took a decided stand
against the ordinance of secession, opposing it with all his influence and
ability in debate. Notwithstanding this, he was elected a deputy to the Congress
of States, to assemble at Montgomery, for the purpose of forming a separate
government for the South. This was no small compliment to him, considering how
he had opposed the wishes and views of the majority."

  Judge Jones settled at Florence in 1856, and has here since made his home. He
was a Douglas elector and in the convention of 1860, as has been seen,
strenuously opposed secession. Notwithstanding this, he was elected to the
Confederate Provisional Congress, in which body he served one year. During the
war he was engaged at the manufacture of cotton and woolens in Mississippi,
under a contract, for the Confederate Government. After cessation of hostilities
he resumed the practice of law at Florence, where he readily took high rank in
the profession. He was associated at different times with two of the most
distinguished lawyers at the South, viz.: Sidney C. Posey and the Hon. Josiah
Patterson, the latter now of Memphis.

  Judge Jones has always been an active politician in the higher sense of that
term. During the period of re-constrnction he was for five years chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee, and displayed therein much more than ordinary
executive ability. In 1876 he was the Tilden and Hendricks elector from his
district, and in support of the ticket spoke throughout Northern Alabama.

  The Legislature of 1874 elected Judge Jones to the office of Solicitor of the
Eighth District, a position to which he has been successively returned up to the
present time, and is now serving his third term, which will expire by limitation
in 1892. He is a public-spirited man, a superior lawyer, a conscientious
prosecutor of the pleas of the State; is identified more or less with all the
leading industries of Florence, and, though well advanced in years, gives the
various matters in which he is interested his personal attention, and brings to
them the activity of a vigorous and perfect mind.

  At Athens, Ala., October 13, 1844, Henry C. Jones was married to Martha L.
Keyes, who died at her home in Florence, May 6, 1887. She was the mother of ten
children, six sons and four daughters. The eldest son, William S., a gallant
soldier under Forrest, was killed at Pulaski, Tenn., September 27, 1864; the
second son, Geo. P., is a prominent lawyer at Florence; Henry C., Jr., also a
lawyer, is located at Decatur; Robert Y. is a doctor of dental surgery at
Nashville; and John is a railroad man in St. Louis. One of the daughters is the
wife of L. M. Allen, cotton manufacturer; and another is an accomplished
teacher, now at Birmingham.

  Judge Jones is a man of high-moral character, a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and one of North Alabama's most prominent citizens.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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