Biographical Sketch of Orville A. Jones, Lafayette County, Missouri

>From "History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled
from the most authentic official and private sources" St. Louis, Mo.
Historical Company, 1881.
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Orville A. Jones, Dentist, P. O. Higginsville.  Was born in Carroll
county, Virginia, in 1843.  Moved to Missouri in 1868, and settled at
Warrensburg, Johnson county, where he remained until 1869, when he
removed to Brownsville, Saline county, where he practiced dentistry
from 1872 to 1875.  In the latter year he moved to Aullville, this
county, where he remained until 1880, when he moved to Higginsville,
and resumed the practice of his profession.  In 1861 he enlisted in 
the confederate service under General Floyd.  Was engaged in the
battles of Cross Lanes, Cornfect's Ferry, Cotton Mountain, Blue Stone
River, Parrisburg, Lewisburg, Rocky Gap, and several others too 
numerous to mention.  After a fight at Rocky Gap he was transferred 
to Richmond and put under the command of Stonewall Jackson.  From this
time on he had no rest, their march being one continuous skirmish line.
Was captured at Piedmont, in the Shenandoah Valley, on the 5th of June,
1864, and taken to Camp Morton, where he remained until the 9th of 
April, 1865, when he was paroled.  Just before his capture his regiment
was one of the largest in the command, but at the fight at Piedmont, 
all but 74 were either killed or captured.  The doctor is now prac-
ticing dentistry in Higginsville, and has gained a wide-spread reputa-
tion as a man skilled in his profession.  His patients come from far
and near.

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