Biographical Sketch of George M. Jones, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Capt. George M. Jones.  Capt. Jones is the son of Henry F. and Mary 
(Waller) Jones, and was born in Shelby County, Tennessee, October 19,
1836.  His father is still living there, aged eighty-one, his mother
died in 1856.  George M. grew up on the farm, receiving his education
at the common schools of the county where he lived.  At the age of 
seventeen he went to Memphis, Tenn., and sold dry goods for the firm
of Cossitt, Hill & Talmadge.  He remained with them something over
three years, receiving for his first year's service, $75.00 and board;
for the second, $100, and the third, $150.00.  He came to Springfield,
Missouri, in January, 1858, but went back to Tennessee after a short
time.  In the fall of the same year he returned to Springfield and
engaged in the general merchandising business, the firm being Miller,
Jones & Co.  He only remained here a year when he went to Dillon,
Phelps County, Missouri and embarked in the forwarding and commission
business, which he carried on until the war broke out in 1861.  In June
of that year he enlisted as a private, in Capt. Dick Campbell's company
of independents, Mo. State service, in the interest of the South.  He
was next transferred to Foster's regiment, Company A, McBride's divi-
sion, C. S. A.  He was shortly afterward made quartermaster, with the
rank of captain.  On account of ill health, he was honorably discharged
at Jacksonport, Arkansas, in August, 1863.  In 1864 he re-enlisted, and
was for some time acting provost marshal in Chicot County, Arkansas. He
next engaged with Col. Campbell in the recruiting service until Gen.
Price's last raid in 1864.  He surrendered and received his parole at
Monroe, Louisiana, in the spring of 1865, and saw the cause he had es-
poused forever lost, and the flag he had followed so long and so faith-
fully uprolled, never again to be unfurled over the land he had fought
for and loved so well.  Capt. Jones went back to his native county in
Tennessee, in 1865, and remained until 1868.  On the 15th of October,
1868, he was married to Mrs. Elizabeth (Berry) Campbell, widow of Col-
onel Campbell.  They were married in Lee County, Arkansas, and their
union has been blest with three children, two girls and one boy.  In
December, 1868, they came to Springfield, locating on the property 
where they now live, in the eastern part of the city.  For two or three
years he was engaged in the real estate business here, but has since
devoted his time and attention to his farm, a part of which lies in the
city limits.  His home place contains three hundred and fifty acres,
and his farm at Campbell Station, three hundred and sixty acres.  Capt.
Jones has been one of the board of curators of the University, and is
now upon the executive board of Drury College.  He is a member of the
Masonic order, and is president of the Confederate Cemetery Association
here at Springfield.  He and his wife are members of the M. E. Church
South, and he has been a steward of the church for twelve years.  He
was also a member of the last three general conferences of that church.
Greene County has no better citizen or truer gentleman than George M.
Jones.

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