Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of J. P. JONES 

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J. P. JONES belongs to one of Georgia's oldest families, his grandfather, 
John Jones, born in Wilkes county in 1809, being the son of a Virginian who 
settled in the wilderness in that county about 1800 and cleared up a farm. 
John Jones married Elizabeth Strozier and settled in Meriwether county where, 
in 1831, their son, Willis A., was born, who in after years was a central 
figure in the stirring events of the time. During the early years of the war 
he had charge of the commissary department of Andersonville prison, and 
afterward, until the war was over, he was in charge at the hospital at 
Marietta. He had represented his county, Lee, in the legislature of 1860 and 
1861, and had also been justice of the inferior court of Lee county; but 
after the war, although again and again solicited, would not consent to be a 
candidate for any political position. He was a man of the most estimable 
character, of a high sense of honor, one whose justice and integrity won 
universal regard. He was a member of the Baptist church, and also a Mason of 
the royal arch degree. His wife was Lucy A. Callaway, whose parents, Parker 
and Susie (Peteeh) Callaway, natives of South Carolina, were among the early 
settlers of Wilkes county, Ga. J. P. Jones, the son of Willis A. and Lucy A. 
Jones was born in Wilkes county in 1851, where he passed his boyhood among 
rural scenes, and with a good education in the common schools, and had 
entered upon a course at Mercer college, when the school was broken up by the 
war, and the young man was for a while deprived of the extended education he 
sought. He, however, graduated in the first class at Macon after Mercer was 
moved from Penfield. He was representative for Coweta county in 1888 and 
1889, and is a useful and honored citizen. He married in 1873, his wife 
being Miss Mary H. Wilcoxon, who was born and reared in the old Wilcoxon 
homestead near Newnan, her father being the well known John B. Wilcoxon of 
that place. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are both members of the Baptist church. Six 
children have blessed their marriage: Willis, Otis, Mary, Thomas, J. P.,Jr., 
and Wilkes.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.