Orange County, NC - Edmund Jones Biography

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Edmund JONES Biography 1771 to 1844
UNC at Chapel Hill N. C. 
Patterson and Jones Family Papers

An Excerpt
Abstract: Personal, business, and political papers, chiefly 1800-1880, 
of four generations of a family of merchants, manufacturers, and public 
officials. Volumes include account books from 1796 of merchandising, 
lumbering, and lands of General Edmund Jones (1771-1844) of Wilkes and 
Caldwell counties, NC; mercantile account books and a variety of other 
business records, 1830-1870, of Samuel Finley Patterson (1799-1874) of 
Salem, NC, banker, merchant, railroad president, state official, and 
son-in-law of Jones; account books, before and after the Civil War, of 
Rufus Lenoir Patterson (1830-1879), merchant manufacturer, state 
official, and son of S. F. Patterson, including records of a textile 
mill in Salem, 1855-1866, of merchandising and personal business, and 
of dealings with slaves, and with African American laborers and 
servants after the Civil War; personal account books; a diary, 1887-
1894; and a notebook for political speeches, 1890, of Samuel Legerwood 
Patterson (1850-1918), another son of S. F. Patterson, farmer and North 
Carolina commissioner of agriculture; and other family records 
including a law student's diary at Yale, 1840.  

Biographical Note
Edmund Jones (1771-1844) of Wilkes County, and later Caldwell County, 
was a state legislator almost continuously from 1798 to 1838.  Jones 
was a general in the state militia and married Ann Lenoir, daughter of 
General William Lenoir.  After his marriage he built his home, Palmyra, 
on land Ann Lenoir Patterson received from her father as a wedding 
gift.  The children of Edmund Jones and Ann Lenoir-Jones were Ann 
Elizabeth, William Rufus, Phoebe Caroline, Martha Myra, Edmund Walter, 
John Thomas, Sarah Lenoir and Newton Jones. (John Thomas was John 
Thomas JONES born about 1813 and was Priscilla Barrs direct ancestor… 
Al Barrs)

Jones's daughter, Phoebe Caroline, married Samuel Finley Patterson in 
1824.  Samuel Finley Patterson (1799-1874), planter and politician, was 
born in Rockbridge County, Va., of Scotch-Irish parents.  In 1811, he 
went to live with his uncle in Wilkesboro, NC, where he became a clerk 
at Waugh and Finley's. 

When he turned 21, he started his own business, which he pursued until 
1840.  In 1848, Patterson, his brother-in-law Edmund Jones, and James 
C. Harper started the first cotton factory in Caldwell County.

[Biographical source:  William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North 
Carolina Biography, Volume 5 (Chapel Hill, NC:  The University of North 
Carolina Press, 1994):  33-37.]

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