Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 
1885, Butler Co.

THOMAS BURTON JONES was born in Butler County, December 24, 1846.  His 
father, Grissom Jones, was born in Georgia in 1820.  He followed farming 
during his lifetime, and died in 1872, leaving three children, one older 
and one younger than our subject; his widow, Anna Jones, a native of 
Virginia, is still living, aged about seventy-one years.  Thomas B., in 
obedience to the dying request of his father, took charge of the farm, 
and assumed the care of his aged mother, which he has done ever since.  
In 1869, he married Mrs. Sarah E. Parker, a widow, of Christian County, 
Ky.; she has one son, John R. Parker, by her former husband.  In 1879, 
Mr. Jones bought seventy-two acres of land in Butler County, which he 
has very much improved and brought into a good state of cultivation; 
one-half of his farm is admirably adapted to grazing purposes, and 
consequently he gives some attention to stock raising.  He is not a 
member of any church; his religious views are liberal and based on free 
thought and justice to all; his wife is a member of the Cumberland 
Presbyterian faith.  Mr. Jones' early education was confined to the 
elementary course in the public schools, but he has attained to a fair 
education through close application and home reading since he reached 
his majority.  Politically he is a Republican and takes an interest in 
the political issues of the day.

Jones Parker
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Christian-KY

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