Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Jones, Levi G. 1821 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Levi G. Jones, farmer and blacksmith, Newtown, born in Hamilton county, Ohio,
July 12, 1821, was the son of Jonathan and Nancy (Caughron) Jones. In 1839 Mr.
Jones, in company with his cousin, Griffin Jones, walked from Cincinnati to this
county, a distance of 200 miles, in four days, arriving at Rob Roy October 20.
Again, in 1844, he traveled over the same ground, consuming five days in the
journey. As soon as he arrived in Rob Roy he set about learning the blacksmith's
trade. He was in the place fourteen years, and all this time lived with his
uncle. He worked eighteen months making carding-machine irons and doing mill
work. In 1851 (March 20) he married Jane Florey. Two years after this he moved
out on Shawnee prairie, and lived where Joseph Florey resides. From this time
until 1862 he was associated with Nicholas Whitehall in the manufacture of
plows. They made and sold the first patented straddle-row cultivator in the
United States, of which Mr. Whitehall was the patentee. Mr. Jones' wife died
June 2, 1867. They had three children: Newman, born December 23, 1853; Alonzo,
March 4, 1857, and Marian Etta, December 12, 1863. His second marriage took
place September 2, 1868, with the widow of Lewis H. Pogue, whose maiden name was
Harriet Slusser. Her parents came from Miami county, Ohio, in 1850. Before her
marriage to Mr. Jones she had four children: Laura, born December 12, 1854;
William H., October 24, 1856; Sarah E., May 3, 1859, and Albert F., February 27,
1861. The issue of the last marriage is one child, James Bertie, born November
9, 1871. In 1863 Mr. Jones was drafted for the army, but sent a substitute at a
cost of $700. He has been a healthy, hard-working, industrious man, and has not
been confined to his bed two days at a time for forty years. He is a democrat.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

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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