Henry T. Jones, Ouachita County, AR

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SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
Contributed by Carol Smith.
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Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas

Henry T. Jones, another old settler, and a prominent farmer of Washington Township, was born December 11, 1838, in Pickensville, Pickens
County, Alabama, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Frazier) Jones, natives of South Carolina (Fairfield District). Thomas Jones was born in 1797, his
father also being of South Carolina, of English descent. Thomas Jones was reared and married in South Carolina, and in 1838 moved to Alabama,
where the subject of this sketch was born, in December of the same year. In 1848 he came to this county and entered a tract of wild land in the
woods, and cleared up the farm on which our subject now resides. He died September 6, 1854. At the time of his death he owned over 1,000
acres of land, and about sixty slaves. His wife died December 25, 1848, at the age of thirty-seven years, a member of the Presbyterian Church.
They were the parents of seven children, two of whom are now living, viz: the subject of this sketch , the eldest and Sarah (now Mrs. Jesse
McMahan of this county, whose sketch appears in this work). Mr. Jones was reared on the farm on which he still lives, and received a good
education in the common schools of this county. After his father's death he carried on a mercantile business at Beach Hill, which was owned by
his father. In 1861 he enlisted in the Sixth Arkansas Infantry, in which he served as orderly sergeant of Company E. In December, 1861, he as
transferred to quartermaster's department, and served in this department until the close of the war. He never took part in any battles. He was
captured at the siege of Vicksburg, but was immediately paroled and put in camp in Mississippi. At the close of the war he returned home and
resumed farming on the old homestead, at which he has continued ever since. Mr. Jones was married March 28, 1867, to Miss Hattie A. Cobb, a
native of Florida, born October 3, 1844 in Monticello, Florida. To this union have been born four children, three of whom are still living, viz: Lena
(an attractive young lady, born February 13, 1868), Joel (born November 19, 1869), Sula (born October 21, 1827), and Hattie (deceased). Mr.
Jones owns a farm of over 700 acres of fine farming land, with 100 acres under cultivation, raising principally cotton. He also devotes
considerable attention to raising cattle and sheep. He operates a large steam cotton-gin and grist-mill, the capacity of the former being ten bales
of cotton per day and of the latter, seventy-five bushels per day. Mr. Jones is a member of the K. of H. and County Wheel. He was an Old Line
Whig, but is now independent in politics. Mrs. Jones is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Jones is a successful farmer, a
good citizen, and takes an active interest in all public enterprises for the good of the community.