Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Jones, Henry B. 1840 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Henry B. Jones, farmer and stock raiser, Rob Roy. His grandfather, Wright
Taylor, was a soldier of 1812. His father, Aaron, was a North Carolinian, and
his mother, Sarah Taylor, a Kentucky lady. They were married in the latter
state, and in February, 1823, removed to Otter Creek prairie, in Vigo county,
and the following winter to Fountain county, settling in the forks of Coal
creek, below Veedersburg. In a year or two his father bought the land where Rob
Roy stands, and afterward sold it to John I. Foster who had that town laid out.
The land eventually fell back to Mr. Jones. He died here January 16, 1878, aged
eighty-two, and his wife July 11, 1878, aged seventy-four. Mr. Jones, the
youngest child of these parents, was born where he lives, one and one-fourth
miles south of Rob Roy, October 23, 1840. He was married February 17, 1861, to
Joanna D. Meeker, daughter of Usual H. Meeker. She was born March 18, 1842.
Their two children are Lorenzo E., born May 13, 1862, and Oliver M., January 18,
1867. Mrs. Jones has been a communicant in the Methodist church eighteen years.
Mr. Jones is a Mason. He owns 535 acres, 290 of which are under plow; it is
valuable land, being a rich alluvial soil, and lying in the Shawnee and Coal
creek bottoms. He is erecting, the present year, a fine brick residence of eight
rooms, at a cost of over $4,000. He has been trustee of Shawnee township three
terms in succession, beginning with 1870 and ending with 1876. He is a
republican in politics, an influential man in his community, and active and
enterprising in business.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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