JONES, Junius Wallace (Lieut.), E. Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 211.  Edited by Alcée
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Jones, Lieut. Junius Wallace, U. S. A., was born April 3, 1890, in Jackson,
La., where he spent his childhood.  He is the eldest son of Dr. Philip H.
Jones and Annabelle Smith Jones, of Baton Rouge, La..  He was educated in
Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia and Louisiana.  While a student at the
Louisiana State university he was appointed from the 6th district to the
United States Military Academy at West Point which he entered March 1, 1909. 
He was graduated June 1, 1913, and entered the coast artillery at Fortress
Monroe, Virginia.  He is at present (1914) assistant quartermaster of Fortress
Monroe.  Lieut. Jones is a direct descendant of 3 soldiers of the
Revolutionary war who were members of Marion's band in South Carolina,  Samuel
Jones,  Samuel Hilton, and  Thomas Jackson.  His grandfather, Dr. John Welch
Jones, of Jackson, La., enlisted for the Mexican war and was also a captain in
the Confederate army.  Lieut. Jones' maternal great-grandfather, Jared
Richardson, fought under Jackson in the battle of New Orleans.