Biography of John H. Jones - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 77

John H. Jones, of Gregory Township, is a member of one of the old
families in Conway County, his father, Mr. H. Jones, coming here from
Tennessee in 1849, when John was a small boy eight years of age. Mr.
Jones, Sr., resided in Conway County many years, and died February 1,
1886. His wife (the mother of John) bad died in Tennessee in 1846, and
he had married there the second time. He always followed the pursuits
of husbandry, and during his life in this county took an active
interest the advancement of its affairs. He and wife were members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The subject of this sketch, Mr.
John B. Jones, was born in Lawrence County. Tenn., February 2, 1841,
and in 1849 was brought by his father to Conway County, Ark. Here he
has since resided. He secured such limited education as those early
days afforded. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the
Confederate army, Company B, Twenty-first Arkansas Regiment. Was in
the battles of Corinth (where he was captured, and afterwards
exchanged at Vicksburg), in the battle of Peach Orchard Gap, Atlanta
(where he was wounded in the right arm on August 24, 1864.) He was in
South Carolina at the time of the surrender in 1865, and from that
State returned to Conway County, where he at once engaged in farming.
On January 9, 1867, he married Jane West, a native of Arkansas. At
that time his worldly possessions were limited almost to a single
horse, but with a stout heart and strong arm he soon secured a start.
He now owns a good farm of 120 acres, with sixty under cultivation,
all well stocked and otherwise improved. Six children have been born
to cheer his path in life, and are named Adolphus (deceased), Sarah
C., Ruthie F., Franklin, Maudie A. and John C. Mrs. Jones is a member
of the Baptist Church.