Biography of William Allen Jones - Conway Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Cathy Barnes Date: 21 Jun 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1891. page 79 Dr. William Allen Jones, one of the prominent members of the medical profession of Morrilton, is a native of Conway County, Arkansas, born in Lick Mountain Township in the year 1858. He was the only child born to Dr. George W. and Sarah E (Whitehead) Jones. His father died when he was less than a year old, and he was reared by a widowed mother in the neighborhood of his birth, receiving his early education at the country schools, and later attended the academy at Springfield, and in 1877 and 1878 attended the State University at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He then studied physic with Dr. David J. Warren, of Atkins, in Pope County, a short time, and in the fall of 1878, entered the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from the same in 1880, and immediately launched into the practice of his chosen profession at Atkins, but after about one year at that place, he returned to the neighborhood of his boyhood, where he continued his profession with increased success till February, 1889, when he removed to Morrilton, where he soon built up an extended practice. He is the owner of 519 acres of land in different tracts, about 215 acres of which is well improved. He also has a good house in Morrilton. A portion of his property was inherited from his father's estate, but the majority of it is the result of his own industry and financiering. In December, 1885, he wedded Mrs. Etta A. Hunter, a daughter of Rev. John R. G. W. N. and Sarah Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Adams emigrated from North Carolina in an early day to Yell County, Arkansas, where they are both still living. Mr. Adams is a Missionary Baptist minister and farmer. He was once Surveyor of Yell County, and also County School Examiner at one time. Mrs. Jones is a native of Yell County, and is the mother of one son by her first husband, and two sons by her last husband. The doctor is a Democrat in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for General Hancock in 1880. He is a member of Hermion Lodge, Knights of Pythias, No. 28. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, was educated at the common schools of Yell County, and one year at the State University at Fayetteville. Dr. Jones is Secretary of the Arkansas Eclectic Medical College, His father was a native of Tennessee, born 1826, and when a man grown came to Conway County, Arkansas, where he married in January, 1858, and departed this life in 1859. He was a successful physician and surgeon, having been a student at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Jones was a Methodist; she died August 25, 1884. Allen Jones, the grandfather of our subject, was probably a native of North Carolina, from whence he removed to Tennessee, and in about 1854 came to Conway County, Arkansas. He died in what is now Faulkner County, in about 1872. The doctor's maternal grandfather, Drewry Whitehead, was one of the pioneers of Conway County, having settled on a small improvement in the north part of the county in 1833, where he made his future home, dying about 1844. His wife died October 5, 1887, nearly 80 years of age. She was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.