Sketch of John Jones, Warren County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Giles Jones was an Englishman, but came to America and served as a
soldier in the Revolutionary War.  His son John came to Missouri in
1817, and studied medicine under Dr. Young.  Dr. Jones married Miss
Minerva Callaway, daughter of Flanders Callaway, and grand daughter
of Daniel Boone, and settled near Marthasville.  They had the follow-
ing children: James, Caroline, Emily, Daniel, John S., Ellen, Paul,
Samuel, George and Anna.  The Doctor became celebrated as a physician,
and had an extensive practise.  He was also very fond of hunting, and
had a horse named Nick, that he generally rode on his hunting expedi-
tions.  Sometimes, just as he would be in the act of firing at a deer
or some other game, Nick would move and cause him to miss his aim. 
The horse did this one day just as he was drawing a bead on a fine
buck, and the buck escaped unhurt, which so enraged the Doctor that
he determined to give him a whipping.  So he alighted and cut a keen
switch, and placed the bridle under his feet to keep old Nick from
running away while he whipped him; but the horse jerked his head up
at the first cut of the switch, threw the Doctor on the back of his
head, and nearly killed him.  After that, when he tried to whip old
Nick, he held the bridle in his hand.  Dr. Jones took a prominent 
part in ferreting out the couterfeiters and horse thieves with which
the country was infested from about 1835 to 1844, when the "Slicker"
organization put a stop to their rascally practices.  By so doing he
incurred the enmity of the gang, and on January 22, 1842, he was shot
and killed in his own yard, by an assassin who was concealed in the
woods near the house.  The whole country was thrown into a state of
excitement by this murder, and the repeated outrages which led to it,
and companies of regulators and patrols were organized in every comm-
unity.  but notwithstanding the most delight and thorough search was
made for the murderer, no trace of him could ever be found.  Several
suspected parties were arrested and tried, but they generally had but
little difficulty in proving their innocence.

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