236                 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

    A native of Millersyille, Pennsylvania, Samuel B. Jones was brought
up in Brown county, Ohio, where his parents settled when he was an
infant. A natural mechanic, he learned carpentry, and after following
that trade for awhile was employed as a flour mill-wright for a few years.
Removing then to Cincinnati, he worked at his trade in that city, being
kept busily employed until 1864. Enlisting in that year in Company E,
Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the command
of General Thomas, he was with his regiment in all of its subsequent
marches, campaigns and battles, and in the engagement at Nashville took
part in nine different bayonet charges. Receiving his honorable discharge
from the service at the close of the war he returned to Cincinnati, where
he followed his trade of a carpenter until his death, as above mentioned,
January 4, 1867. On December 15, 1847, he married Esther Tice Cam-
eron, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 15, 1832, a daughter of
Duncan Cameron, who, without doubt, was of Scotch ancestry.
    Duncan Cameron was born and brought up in New York state, his
birth occurring in 1784. As a young man he settled in Cincinnati, and
for a number of years was employed by Nicholas Longworth, Sr. Sub-
sequently, about 1845, he purchased two hundred acres of land near Mont-
gomery, Ohio, and was there successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits
until his death, in 1866, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. He married
Mary Ann Felter, who was born in New York state in 1790, of Pennsyl-
vania-German, Irish and English ancestry, and died in 1862. They were
the parents of fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters, the following
being the record: John; Crunemus; Nicholas; James; Andrew; Hiram;
Duncan; Thomas; Joel; Sarah married Crunemus Kitchel; Maria mar-
ried Herbert Martin; Magdalane married first John Davis, and married
second John D. Hathaway; Catherine remained unmarried; Caroline mar-
ried William Simmington; and Esther T. became the wife of Samuel B.
Jones, and the mother of Jeremiah T. Jones, the special subject of this
sketch. She died October 26, 1884, aged fifty-two years.
    Having obtained an excellent education in the public schools of Cin-
cinnati, Jeremiah T. Jones began at the age of sixteen years to learn the
carpenter’s trade, working for one and one-half years with his father,
afterwards being employed as a journeyman for two years. On January
20, 1869, he came to Indiana, and for more than a year was a contractor
in Reelsville, Putnam county. From September, 1870, until 1875, he was
similarly engaged at Carbon, Clay county. Removing then to Parke
county, Mr. Jones rented land near Lena, and for four years was there a
tiller of the soil. Locating in Middlebury in 1880, he entered the employ
of J. H. Modrell, a lumber dealer, and was with him until 1893. During
the following three years he was engaged in the lumber business at Liver-
more, Kentucky, but since that time Mr. Jones has been associated with
the Moline Wagon Company at Moline, Illinois, as lumber buyer and
shipper. At the present time he buys in Arkansas and Southeastern Mis-
souri, his headquarters being at Newport, Arkansas.
    Mr. Jones married first, January 9, 1869, Mary L. Farley, who was
born September 15, 1849, in Cincinnati, a daughter of John and Susan
Farley. She died February 23, 1869, after a very few weeks of mar-
ried life. Mr. Jones married second, April 19, 1870, Henrietta Osborn,
who was born in Scott county, Virginia, September 9, 1848. Her father,
Henry Osborn, was born in Virginia, where his parents probably spent
their whole lives. He removed in early manhood to Kentucky, buying a