Biography of THOMAS JONES, Logan Co, AR

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Submitted by:  Delaine Edwards <delaine@ipa.net>
        Date:  29 Jun 1999
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SOURCE: Biographical & Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago and Nashville, 1891.
Logan County

	THOMAS JONES, farmer, Driggs, Ark. Mr. Jones is in every way
to be classed among the successful agriculturist of this county,
for by his own industry he has become the owner of a fine farm of
505 acres, and 400 acres of this have been cleared. He owes his
nativity to Chambers County, Ala., his birth occurring in March,
1846, and is the son of Thomas and Nancy (Davis) Jones, both probably
natives of Alabama. Thomas Jones, the youngest of four children -
two sons and two daughters - was left an orphan when quite young,
and was reared principally in his native State. He left Alabama
immediately after the war, came to Arkansas, and has since been a
resident of this State. He was married in Logan County in 1871, to
Miss Trency Galer, and to them have been born eleven children, ten
of whom are living: John T., Jeremiah S., Charles W., Sarah J.,
William E., Marzela, Zeba A., Everett and Louisa (who died at the
age of seven months.) Mr. Jones is engaged in raising cotton and
grain, and while he is an agriculturist of advanced ideas and
tendencies he does not lose sight of the stock interest. The
improvements on his place are all of the best. (Mr. Jones did
not correct and return this sketch and hence the publishers cannot
give the names of his other children.)