Meriwether County GaArchives Biographies.....John Jones  1841 -  Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 1895

Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., 
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895
Pages 512-513

John O. Jones

John O. Jones, an enterprising farmer of Meriwether county, is one of those 
who may look back with pride upon a brave and patriotic ancestry; both of his 
grandfathers having served in the revolution. His grandparents, John and Agnes 
(Ready) Jones, were Virginians who settled in this state early in the century, 
where, in Morgan county, their son, A.J. Jones, was born. They afterward 
removed to Mississippi, and there, in 1852, Mr. Jones died, full of years and 
honors. The wife of A.J. Jones was Miss Mary Dark, whose parents were early 
settlers of Meriwether county, in which county her son, John O. Jones, was 
born in 1841, and reared upon the farm, receiving only the limited education 
common in those days in the country schools. In 1861 he enlisted in Company D, 
Capt. Howard, Eighth Georgia regiment, and was in the first battle of 
Manassas, and afterward in many others. As was the common lot of most of the 
Georgian troops, Mr. Jones returned from the war with empty pockets and to a 
region made desolate by the passage of hostile armies, to begin life anew. But 
with the natural courage and resolution of his character, he at once set to 
work at the first thing which presented itself – hauling lumber from Senoia to 
Atlanta, and with the money thus earned laid the foundation of his present 
fortune – purchasing land and developing his fine and valuable farm. In 1865 
Mr. Jones married Miss Lizzie Glass, a native of Meriwether county, born in 
1843; she is the daughter of James B. and Mary (Clower) Glass, the former a 
native of Jasper county, who came to this county in his boyhood, where he died 
in 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are both members of the Missionary Baptist church. 
They have five children: James A., John H., William R., R.A. and Alma M., and 
the family is well known and esteemed in the community.




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