Toombs County GaArchives Biographies.....Adams, Charles E. 1878 - living in 1913
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   ARTHUR PERRY JONES. Widely known as manager of the Vidalia Commission
Company, which is carrying on a large wholesale and retail business, dealing in
grain, provisions, lime, cement, seeds and building material, Arthur Perry Jones
is a true type of the energetic and enterprising men who are so materially
advancing the mercantile interests of Vidalia, and of Toombs county. A native of
South Carolina, his birth occurred at Salkehatchie, Colleton county, May 26, 1878.

   His father, Asbury Morgan Jones, was born and reared in Colleton county,
South Carolina, and died in Pavo, Georgia, in 1908. He was a veteran of the
Civil war, in which he rendered good service. He subsequently carried on a
thriving business as a planter and a merchant for many years, in Colleton
county, South Carolina, in his operations acquiring considerable property. The
maiden name of his wife was Emeline Dassy Mood, of Charleston, South Carolina.

   Receiving his early education in the town of his birth, Arthur Perry Jones
completed his studies at the Stanley Business College, in Thomasville, Georgia.
The ensuing year and a half he was employed as a telegraph operator, first with
the F. C. & P. Railroad Company, now a branch of the Seaboard, and later with
the Georgia Northern Railway Company, at Moultrie, Georgia. Going then to
Tifton, Georgia, Mr. Jones was associated with the Western Union Telegraph
Company for four and one-half years. Returning then to Tifton, he was manager of
the Postal Company there for two years, after which he conducted a retail
grocery in that city for two and one-half years. Disposing then of his store,
Mr. Jones was for six months manager of the Postal Company at Thomasville,
Georgia, after which he was agent for a year and a half, at Ashburn, for the
Gulf Line Railroad Company. Coming from there to Vidalia, Mr. Jones became
identified with the Vidalia Commission Company, which was incorporated January
1, 1911, as a stock company, and of which C. L. Herring is now president, and
Mr. Jones is the efficient treasurer and general manager. This company was
capitalized at $6,000, with the privilege of increasing it to $25,000, when
occasion demanded, and is carrying on a rapidly growing business that even now
amounts to $35,000 each year. The store occupies a floor space of three
thousand, six hundred feet, and is well stocked with all goods handled by
commission brokers, including groceries, grain, hay, flour, lard, hams, lime,
cement, building materials, roofing, typewriting machines, showcases, and like
productions, the business being extensive and lucrative.

   On October 16, 1901, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Allie Mae Harman,
who was born, March 25, 1882, in Boston, Georgia, but was brought up and
educated in Dixie, Brooks county, where she lived until her marriage. Her
father, James Jackson Harman, was born in Ringgold, Georgia, April 17, 1855, and
at the age of nine years, during the Civil war, accompanied his parents to
Boston, whither they fled as refugees. On October 15, 1878, Mr. Harman married
Sophronia Grovenstein, who was born, March 23, 1857, in Effingham county,
Georgia, being a granddaughter of William Grovenstein, who was a lineal
descendant of that branch of the Salsberger family that settled near Savannah,
Georgia, in early colonial days.

   Six children have been born of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, namely: Agnes
Lucile died at the age of twelve months; Asbury Har-man, born in 1904; Emily Mae
lived but one short year; Martha Perry, born in 1908; Alfred Joseph, born in
1910; and Margaret Louise, born in 1911. Fraternally Mr. Jones is a member of
the Knights of Pythias. Religiously he, his wife, and his son Harman, are
members of the Methodist church.



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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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