Biographical Sketch of Jonathan D. Jones, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Jonathan D. Jones, farmer and stock raiser, is a native of Obion 
county, Tenn., born in 1842, and is a son of J. W. and Martha A.
(Doak) Jones.  The former was born in North Carolina, near Raleigh,
in 1838 and died in Dent county, Mo., November 27, 1888, having been
a resident of the county since 1855.  He was a farmer, and of Irish
descent, and at an early day immigrated to Tennessee, where he was
married, his wife having been born in Wilson county, of that state,
about 1820, and is now residing with her sons in Dent county.  
Jonathan D. Jones is the second of her ten children, seven of whom
grew to maturity.  He made his home with his parents until about
twenty-one years of age, receiving his education in the district
schools, and in 1861 volunteered in the Southern army, but after
serving six months came home, and February 15, 1865, enlisted in
Company E, Eleventh Regiment Veteran Volunteer Infantry, of the
Federal Army, serving until January, 1866, seven months after the
close of the war.  He then returned to Crawford county, Mo., where 
he had been married to Miss E. J. Brickey in 1863.  She was born in
Crawford county, Mo., in 1846, and is the mother of eight children,
five now living.  Her parents, Cornelius and Keziah A. Brickey, were
of German descent.  Since 1866 Mr. Jones has been a resident of Dent
county, and in 1863 he located on the farm of 300 acres where he now
lives, 140 acres of land are under cultivation and besides this 
property he has a forty acre tract of timber land.  He has a good 
bearing orchard, and is in a prosperous condition financially.  He 
is a Democrat politically.  Mrs. Jones is a member of the Christian
Church.

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