Dallas County, TX - Biographies -  William A. Jones

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John Henry Brown's History of Dallas County, 1892, pp. 481-482

William A. JONES, engaged in the real estate business in Dallas, was
born in Danville, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in 1840, the youngest
of four children born to Allen and Martha W. (Burton) Jones, the former
a native of Virginia, and the latter of Caswell county, North Carolina.
The father died in his native State in 1841, and the mother survived him
until 1857, dying at Martinsville, Henry county, Virginia. The subject
of this sketch was reared and educated in his native State, and at the
age of nineteen years he left home, going to Galveston, Texas, but on
account of the yellow fever he removed further north, to Cypress City.
On account of the same disease he remained there only one day, and then
went to Montgomery, where he secured a position as clerk. Six months
later Mr. Jones moved to Long Point, Texas, thence to Caddo Springs,
where he had charge of a store. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Fourth
Texas Infantry, and was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam,
Gettysburg and Chickamauga, and in all the engagements before Richmond
and others in which his command fought. He held the office of Regimental
Commissary Sergeant, but after the battle of Chickamauga he was placed
on detached duty, in the Quartermaster's Department at Danville,
Virginia, on account of ill health. After the close of the war Mr. Jones
remained in Danville about six months, went thence to Memphis,
Tennessee, a short time afterward to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1868 to
Galveston, where he engaged in the tobacco business, and thence, in
1871, to Dallas. He now owns considerable property on North Akard
street, also property in North Dallas and Alabama Mr. Jones was married
in Galveston, Texas, in 1870, to Marie Antoinette Talley, a native of
Alabama, and a daughter of William J. and Mary R. (Smith) Talley,
natives of South Carolina. The father died in Loachapoka, Alabama,
August 22, 1890, and the mother passed away many years before. Mr. and
Mrs. Jones have had two children: ¥ Eugenia. born September 1, 1871,
died August 26. 1890. at Loachapoka; ¥ Algernon I., born August 25,
1873, is at home.

Politically. Mr. Jones its, a Democrat; socially. a member of the
Masonic order and the I.O.O.F., and religiously, his wife is a member of
the Presbyterian Church.