Bio: James W. Jones, Grant Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to USGENWEB by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890






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JAMES W. JONES

James W. Jones, president of the Farmers' Alliance of Natchitoches Parish, was
born in Georgia, December 18, 1838, and passed his boyhood and youth under the
parental roof.  In 1859 he came to Louisiana, and settled in what is now Grant
Parish, where he made his home until 1887, when he moved to his present place
of residence in Natchitoches Parish, one and a half miles from the city.  

In 1861 he joined Company C, or what was known at the Winn Rifles, rose to the
position of second lieutenant, and was a brave and efficient officer, serving
until the close of the war.  He was wounded at the battle of Vicksburg.  Since
the war he has been engaged in farming and has made a success of this
occupation, as a glance over his well kept place will clearly indicate to the
beholder.

He took a leading part in the Grange movement, and has always taken the same
kind of interest in the Farmers' Alliance movement.  In July, 1890 he was
elected president of the last named organization of this parish, and is
eminently fitted for that position.

He was married in the year 1863, to Miss Annie M. Dobbs, who was born in
Marietta, Ga., in 1842.  They have five children who are named as follows:
Rowena, Lillie, James R., Hattie and Ernest W.  

Mr. Jones is a close adherent to Democratic principles, and socially is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, Phoenix Lodge No. 38 of this city.  He
joined this society in Montgomery, La, and for about four years was master of
Lodge No. 168 of that place.

He and Mrs. Jones are members of the Baptist Church.  Mr. Jones was the eldest
of four children, three now living, born to James and Harriet (Cooper) Jones,
natives of Georgia and Virginia, respectively.  The father died in his native
State, in 1839, when about thirty years of age, and the mother also died in
that State, in 1847, when about twenty eight or thirty years of age.  The
maternal grandfather of our subject, Rev. John W. Cooper, was a minister in
the Baptist church for about thirty five or forty years.  He died in Georgia,
in 1849, at the age of seventy years.