Newton County GaArchives News.....Presley Jones November 13 1874
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The Georgia Enterprise
  A few days since we visited the grave of Presley Jones, and as we gazed upon 
the worn and decaying wooden headboard, our memory turned back to the bitter
past, and our heart sank within our bosom. Mr. Jones was  a brave man, and was 
murdered upon the streets of Covington, by the bloodthirsty villains of 
Garardy's U. S. troops. He was over 60 years old at the time of his death, and 
had always conducted himself as a Christian gentlemen. After the war his family,
like the whole people of the South, were in an impoverished condition and unable
to place upon his grave a marble tombstone. They are not able now. What say
the citizens of Covington to raising a subscription sufficient to pay for a 
handsome monument to adorn the last resting place of the man who acted so nobley
in the defense of his town and country?

Additional Comments:
Presley Jones is buried at Covington City Cemetery.(Newton County, Georgia)
Inscription: 
Presley Jones 
Born 1804 
61 years.

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