Chattahoochee-Muscogee-Stewart County GaArchives Biographies.....Jones, James Hickey unknown - unknown ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 4, 2004, 7:16 pm Author: N. K. Rogers JAMES HICKEY JONES James Hickey Jones, who was ordinary of Chattahoochee Co. 1912-16, with all others of this line had a most interesting ancestry. Of the large family to which Judge Jones belonged only one member, Mrs. Annie Jones Schley, is now living. Their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey Jones, was the great grand daughter of Alexander Carswell, who came to America from Scotland. Her grandfather, John Carswell who was a second lieutenant, as well as her great grandfather the emigrant, helped to win American independence from Great Britain. In 1829 Mrs. Jones' father, James Hickey who married Jane Carswell came from Burke to that part of Muscogee later Chattahoochee County where he settled the place known to later inhabitants as the "Devil Jim" Jones place. In the Creek land lottery of 1827 James Hickey, soldier (War of 1812) drew lot 86 in 24th Dist. of original Lee Co. He owned several lots near his home here among them being the one upon which he had a house built which has been the home of C. N. King (county commissioner) for many years. When Mr. King came there as a youth to take charge of this plantation owned by his father, Wm. King, Mr. Robert C. Patterson, then an old man, told him something of the history of this house (Mrs. Annie Jones Schley was born at this place) which was built in 1839-40. James Hickey employed him (R. C. Patterson) who is listed among the carpenters of Muscogee in 1840 in Martin's History of Columbus, Ga., to build this house and gave him board and lodgings while he was engaged in doing this work. And at the same time he was courting Mr. Hickey's daughter, Jane, whom he married in February 1840, and they were the first occupants of this new house. It is built in the style approved today—that is the front door surrounded by small windows, opens directly into a generous-sized living room with large fireplace, having the bed rooms grouped conveniently at side and rear of this living room. Through a narrow hallway leading to the rear, the kitchen originally detached from the house, is reached. It is ceiled throughout with wide plank which were hand planed. The shelf for water bucket on back porch is a single plank twenty inches wide and of unusual thickness. The smokehouse still remains in use, though its location has been changed, same logs being used in rebuilding nearer the kitchen. After Mr. and Mrs. Patterson had removed to Stewart Co. for a few years, another son-in-law of Mr. Hickey's, James Hardwick Jones lived at this place. He was the son of another James Jones, who among other valuable possessions, left something quite unique—an arithmetic he made in 1795-96. This handmade arithmetic in an excellent state of preservation considering the ravages of time, is the property of R. W. Jones, a son of Judge J. H. Jones. This book is done entirely with pen and ink and the figures and script are perfect. Only an artist could have accomplished this feat. All the rules for arithmetical processes are given with copious examples clearly and lucidly solved. This book, evidently prepared by an educated mind and hand, was quite probably used to assist in his children's education after he had moved into a pioneer country. James Jones and his wife Sarah Wyley Jones, came from Sparta, Hancock Co. Ga, to Jones "Crossing" (Upatoie) Muscogee Co. where they had a home considered a mansion at that time. It was a two-story structure with basement, wood work and stairway said to have been imported. A description of this fine old home was given by one familiar with it to Mrs. Lillian Schley McBride, a great grand daughter of this James Jones. Several old pieces of furniture and silver remained in possession of the Jones descendants until the present generation. James Hardwick Jones was living in Tennessee when the War Between the States began. His son, James Hickey Jones, too young to enlist at first, served as gunbearer and was later a courier on the staff of General Stephen D. Lee. When the war ended, he was paroled, a youth 19 years of age to begin life during the lean years of the reconstruction period here. His father and mother had returned to her old home in Chattahoochee, where they spent the remainder of their lives and are buried at the cemetery in front of this home, which had sheltered the Hickey and Jones families for so many years. George W. Jones, a brother of James Hardwick Jones, never married, but had a picturesque place in upper part of Chattahoochee, where he kept much of the fine furniture and silver inherited from his parents. He entertained lavishly and so spent a fortune; but still retained some of this inheritance which he mentions in bequests in his will. When James Hickey Jones married Miss Susie Wilkinson, they went to "old Uncle George's" home to live. In a letter to her homefolks, she painted a beautiful word-picture of that old home on Pine Knot. There was a mill in front of the house, in addition to all its other desirable features. She began her housewifely duties by carrying a bunch of keys, eleven in number, which were used daily. There were negro servants to do the work, but this was after slavery days, so the necessity for keys. She named this place "Paradise" which perhaps met the demands of an earthly paradise more nearly than is customary even for young lovers to find their abode to be. For it had that background of luxury which is essential to the joyousness of living for those who have cultivated tastes. After establishing a home of their own near the old Hickey-Jones place, James Hickey Jones and family moved to Cusseta, building this time upon the site of the W. W. Shipp home which had burned a few years before. A natural talent along artistic lines is quite noticeable among the various other families whose lineage traces to this same ancestor. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY, GEORGIA By N. K. Rogers Dedicated to KASIHITA CHAPTER U. D. C. and all worthy descendants of the County's first settlers. Copyright 1933 by N. K. ROGERS PRINTED BY COLUMBUS OFFICE SUPPLY CO. 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