JONES BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== JONES, I. N. - b: IL source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 521 residence: Clinton Twp I. N. Jones owes his nativity to Illinois. He served in the Federal army for four years, during the late war, and on June 14, 1872, came to Henry County, Missouri, and was identified with the Clinton Advocate as publisher and proprietor until March, 1878. He was appointed postmaster at Clinton by President Hayes and was re-appointed in 1882. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Masonic fraternities. ==================================================================== JONES, L. C. - b: 1868 Jennings Co, IN source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - page: 302 residence: Deer Creek Twp L. C. Jones, the well known recorder of deeds of Henry County, is a native of Indiana. He was born in Jennings County in 1868, a son of Louis E. and Catherine (Burns) Jones, both natives of Indiana. The Jones family is of old Virginia stock and George D. Jones, grandfather of L. C., was a Virginian, and went to Indiana from his native State at a very early day in the history of Indiana. Later, or about 1867, he went to Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life. Louis E. Jones removed from Indiana to Illinois in 1868, and now resides near Chester, Randolph County, Illinois. Catherine (Burns) Jones is also a descendant of one of the very early pioneer families of Indiana. L. C. Jones is one of a family of seven children born to his parents, six of whom are living as follow: E. W., Terre Haute, Indiana; I. H., Sparta, Illinois; Nellie, the wife of John Boyd, Effingham, Illinois; Ina, now the wife of John Kull, who resides in northern Indiana; Susan, the wife of Lee Nolan, Sparta, Illinois, and L. C., the subject of this sketch. L. C. Jones was reared and educated in Illinois. He spent his boyhood days on the home farm and in 1887 came to Henry County, Missouri, where he followed farming and threshing for twenty-three years. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Quarles for eight years, although he has always been interested in farming and threshing. In 1914 he was elected recorder of Henry County and is now serving in that capacity, although he continues to reside on his home place, which is a splendid farm of 180 acres in Deer Creek township. In addition to general farming Mr. Jones is extensively engaged in raising cattle, horses and mules, and is well known as a successful breeder of pure blood Shropshire sheep. Mr. Jones was married April 22, 1892, to Miss Lillian I. Spicer, a native of St. Louis County, Missouri. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Luther C., Bisbee, Arizona; Grace E., Claud and Alice, who reside at home with their parents. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Mr. Jones is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Masonic Lodge and has been identified with the Democratic party since boyhood. He is one of the substantial and enterprising citizens of Henry County. ==================================================================== JONES, Robert Lee - b: 1885 Tebo Twp, Henry Co, MO source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - page: 582 residence: Tebo Twp Robert Lee Jones is a successful farmer and an extensive mule dealer of Tebo township, who owns and operates a farm in section 36. Mr. Jones is a young man who gives promise of being one of the leading agriculturists of his community. He was born June 26, 1885, in Tebo township, Henry County, the son of Reuben A. and Fannie (Parks) Jones, who are also farming in Tebo township. Robert Lee Jones was reared on the home farm and attended the Highland district school and the Calhoun High School. In 1909 he purchased his present farm of sixty-five acres and is conducting a successful farming business. He also is dealing in mules, buying and selling them the year around. February 17, 1909, Robert L. Jones and Maude Dannatt were united in marriage. She was born in Clinton County, Iowa, and is the daughter of Samuel and Amelia (Rice) Dannatt. Mr. and Mrs. Dannatt, with their family, came to Deer Creek township, Henry County, in 1904 and purchased 120 acres of land, which they farmed until their retirement in 1909, when they moved to Clinton, Missouri. In 1913 they moved to Calhoun, Missouri, where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are the parents of four children as follows: Ethlyn Bonita, Floyd Kenneth, Ada Caroline, and Elsie Wonita. The family are members of the Baptist church and Mr. Jones votes the Democratic ticket. He is one of the substantial and progressive young men of Henry County. ==================================================================== JONES, Samuel - b: 1826 Harrison Co, OH source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 521 residence: Clinton Twp Samuel Jones, M.D., a native of Harrison County, Ohio, was born April 26, 1826. His father, James Jones, came originally from Delaware, but was reared in Pennsylvania. His mother, formerly Susan Dickerson, was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Ohio. Samuel was the third of nine children. He passed his youth and early manhood in the county of his birth, and was educated in the West Bedford, Ohio, academy. At the age of twenty-one he began the study of medicine under Dr. R. N. Waddell, of Nashville, Ohio, with whom he remained as student for two and one-half years, and for the following eighteen months he was engaged in practicing under that gentleman. In 1856-57 he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati, Ohio, Medical College, from which institution he graduated in the spring of 1857. Becoming occupied in the practice of medicine at Lithopolis, Ohio, he stayed for ten months, going thence to Utica, Ohio, where he resided till April, 1866. He then came to Clinton, Missouri, and continued his practice here till 1873, when he was ordained a minister of the M. E. Church. For two years he had charge of the Huntingdale circuit, and for one year following held the Brownsville, Missouri, circuit. Later on his charge was the Aullville and Dunksville circuit for one year, and the next year he was assigned to the Brownsville and Aullville circuit. Finally he received the Clinton circuit for a like period. Owing to his wife's ill health he was obliged to give up active duty in the church, and for that reason, in 1878 he resumed the practice of medicine in this city. Dr. Jones was married April, 1846, to Miss Sarah A. Brown, a native of Ohio. They had one child, George B. Mrs. Jones' death occurred July 9, 1849. He was again married February 14, 1850, to Miss Mary Johnston, also of Ohio. They have four children: Robert E., James O., Thomas H. and Edward L. W. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he has for a term of four years served Henry County as coroner. ==================================================================== JONES, Samuel H. - b: 1837 Warren Co, MO source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 735 residence: Davis Twp Samuel H. Jones, M.D. was born in Warren County, Missouri, November 27, 1837. His father, John Jones was an old practitioner of Warren County, having settled there in 1818 from Kentucky. He met his death by assassination in 1842. He had tried to have the laws enforced against evil doers, and at the hands of such men he received his death. Samuel's mother, formerly Minerva B. Callaway, was a daughter of Flanders Callaway, prominent among the pioneers of Missouri, and who married the daughter of Daniel Boone, thus making Dr. Jones the great grandson of the famous hunter. A portion of the original stone that was placed at the head of Daniel Boone's grave, is now in Dr. Jones' possession. At his mother's death, when he was but sixteen years of age, he went to Franklin County, and lived with a brother. He attended DesPaine's College at St. Louis, and in 1857. he began to study with Dr. Powell at Marthasville, Warren County, but at the end of a year, entered with his brother at Newport, Franklin County, in 1859 he attended the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in the spring of 1861. He then began the practice of his profession at Miller's Landing, and July 16, 1861, he was married in St. Louis, to Miss Cynthia A. Griswold, who was born February 8, 1843. In the fall of the same year he entered the army service at Osceola, and was made assistant surgeon under Dr. Dorsey in Colonel Johnson's regiment in Parson's Brigade. He remained for eighteen months in Missouri and Arkansas, when he returned home and resumed the practice at Marthasville. In 1864 he removed to Williamsburg, Callaway County, and subsequently practiced in Warren County again for two years. In 1870 he came to Henry County, and located seven miles west of Clinton, and in 1872, took up his residence in Ladue, where he has a very successful practice. In 1878 he opened a drug store, and has since been handling a good stock. Dr. Jones has for a time been buying stock and grain and in each of these industries, is doing a fair trade. On the 8th of March 1880, his wife died. He has seven children living: Lee, Archibald N., Caroline A., Sallie P., Harvey, Jeffie, and Daniel B. 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