MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - A. Jones
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HON. A. JONES, M. D., one of the leading physicians of Cornersville, Tenn.,
and son of John R. and Martha A. (LANE) JONES, was born in Marshall County,
May 15, 1839. His boyhood days were spent on a farm and in attending the
common schools; later he attended the school of
Pascal, at Nashville, and for some time studied medicine under Dr. Thomas
LIPSCOMB. He graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1858, and later
took a course of lectures at New Orleans, and another at Belleview Medical
College at New York. In 1862 he opened an office in
Cornersville, where he has since resided, with the exception of four years
during the war. He served in Company H, Third Tennessee Infantry, as a
lieutenant, and after a short service was made a surgeon of the Seventeenth
Regiment. In 1862 he wedded Maxie HARRIS, by whom he had
four children, three of whom are living. The Doctor is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, and his wife is a Presbyterian. In 1871
he represented Marshall County in the State Legislature, and filled the
position ably for one term. He is a Democrat, and owns and operates a farm
of 235 acres. His parents were born in North Carolina, and were married in
Tennessee. The father was a physician, but not liking that profession he
took up farming, and eventually became one of the most successful farmers
in the country. He was a Democrat, and died of the cholera in 1865. The
mother died in 1885. She was of Welsh descent and the father of English.

Surnames: Harris, Jones, Lane, Lipscomb
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."