Marion County, West Virginia         Biography of Thomas King JONES

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II, page 123-124

    Thomas King Jones, secretary of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
of Fairmont, one of the leading insurance concerns of the state, has been a
substantial farmer as well as a business man, and the environment and
experience of his life have given him every qualification for handling
problems of business incident to agriculture.
    He was born at Dent's Run, Grant District, Monongalia County, August 31,
1866, son of John L. and Maria J. (Morris) Jones, natives of the same county.
His grandparents were Henry and Mary (Lough) Jones, and the former was born
in Monongalia County in 1800, spending all his active lifetime on a farm in
that county, where he died in 1876. John L. Jones rendered his active service
in the vocation of agriculture. He was born on Little Indian Creek in
Monongalia County in 1831, and his wife, Maria J. Morris, was born March 3,
1835, and died August 6, 1917. She was the daughter of Barton and Comfort
(King) Morris, natives of Monongalia County.
    Of the four children of John L. Jones and wife, Thomas King is the only
survivor. The oldest, Barton M. Jones, was born in Monongalia County, August
18,1853, acquired his education in the free schools and the University of
West Virginia, and for ten years was a farmer and teacher in the county
schools and for a term of eight years was assessor of the Western District in
Monongalia County. For one term he was a sheriff of the county. He died in
1893, being survived by a widow and five sons. The second child, H. Clark
Jones, was born in Monongalia County, September 14, 1858, had a public school
education, attended the State University, and devoted his active years to
farming. He died in 1917, and is survived by his widow and ten children. The
only daughter of the family, Mollie E. Jones, was born April 30, 1856,
finished her education in the Fairmont Normal School, and was a successful
teacher for a number of terms. She died October 2, 1893.
    Thomas K. Jones acquired a free school education in Monongalia County,
and as a youth went to work on his father's farm. From that he progressed to
the ownership of a farm of his own, which he extended in acreage and in this
property for forty-five years. He only left the farm in 1912, when he moved
to Fairmont to assume the office of secretary of the Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
    March 15, 1888, Mr. Jones married Miss Emma Bowers. She was born October
26, 1867, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, daughter of Peter and Rachel
Bowers. Her father was also a native of Indiana County, where he spent his
active life as a farmer, and during the civil war he was a Union soldier. His
death occurred in 1896.
    Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two daughters: Ollie Maria Fairchild, who was
born December 7, 1888, was married September 30, 1916, to M. L. Fortney, of
Preston County, West Virginia, and they have one child, Rachel Fairchild,
born May 6, 1918.
    Martha Laura Cordelia, the second daughter, was born January 28, 1891.
She is the wife of Robert M. Morgan, of Fairmont, manager of the Fairmont
Motor Car Company. They have a daughter, Emma Belle, born April 19, 1914.


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