Biography of Nathaniel M Jones, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 14 Nov 2008
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Transcribed by Lisa Hamilton from 
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SOURCE:  Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern 
Arkansas. Chicago:Goodspeed Publishers, 1890.
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Nathaniel M. Jones came to St. Francis County with his father in 1832, when nine
years of age, the country at that time being a comparative wilderness. He
remained with his father until his death, which occurred in 1851, and in 1856
was married to Martha A. Agerton, who has borne five children: Mary C., Nancy,
James P., Cleopatra and Senoth. Mr. Jones was born in Lawrence County, Ala., in
1823, to the union of Branch and and Nancy Jones, natives of Virginia and
Tennessee, respectively. Mr. N. M. Jones owns a farm of 146 acres, with sixty
acres under cultivation, and is extensively engaged in stock raising. He is a
Democrat in politics, and was a firm adherent to the Southern cause during the
late war, serving in the Confederate army throughout that conflict. He is a
member of the Baptist Church (as are also all of his family, with the exception
of one of the children), in which he has been an active worker. Few men have led
a more honorable life or contributed more liberally to the support of religious
and educational enterprises than Mr. Jones.