John Allen Jones, Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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John Allen Jones is one of the younger men in the business life of 
southwest Louisiana, and his home for several years has been in De 
Quincy.  He is probably most widely known through his successful 
career as a teacher, but since the World war period, has been engaged 
in business.

Mr. Jones was born at Dry Creek, in Calcasieu Parish, September 9, 
1880.  His father, Nathan A. Jones, a native of Mississippi, was taken 
when a boy to Texas, and at the age of twenty-one years came to 
Louisiana.  He followed the lumber industry for some years and later 
engaged in farming, and is now city judge at De Ridder, Louisiana.  His 
mother, Martha McFatter, was born in Mississippi, and came to 
Louisiana when a child, where she grew to womanhood.

John Allen Jones grew up around Sugartown, attended public schools 
there, and completed a liberal education in the Louisiana State 
University.  His work as a teacher covered a period of twenty years.  
During most of that time he performed administrative duties, being 
principal of schools at Sugartown, assistant principal at De Ridder, 
principal at Longville, and for nine years was principal of the schools at 
Lockport.

From 1918 to 1921 Mr. Jones was connected with the Lock-Moore 
Lumber Company at Lockport.  Since 1921 he has been manager of the 
De Quincy Wholesale Grocery & Grain Company, and is one of the 
men who are making this one of the important commercial towns of 
southwest Louisiana.

Mr. Jones is president of the De Quincy Chamber of Commerce.  He is 
a deacon of the Baptist Church, a teacher in the Sunday School, is a 
Lodge and Chapter Mason and Woodman of the World.  His hobby is a 
flock of pure bred poultry.

Mr. Jones married at Vincent Settlement, in Calcasieu Parish, July 16. 
1905, Miss Lena Vincent, member of a prominent family in that section 
of the parish.   Her father, John Vincent, was a cattle man and died in 
1923 at Sulphur, where he had lived retired.  Mrs. Jones is active in 
church, chub and social affairs at De Quincy.  They have a family of 
four children: Mildred, Nathan Allen, Lena and Edison Lincoln.  An 
interesting feature concerning these children is that Nathan Allen 
finished the elementary schools and was promoted to high school at the 
age of eight and one-half years, graduating from the high school at the 
age of fourteen.

NOTE:  The sketch is accompanied by a black and white 
photograph/drawing of the subject.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 389, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925.