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James W. Jones November 12, 1839 - unknown
Adair County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, Battle-Perrin-Kniffin, 4th ed., 1886

JAMES W. JONES, was born in Adair County, November 12, 1839, and is the eldest 
of seven children born to Philip A. and Elizabeth V. (Humphries) Jones, the 
former a native of Taylor and the latter of Adair Co., Ky. Both were of 
English descent. Phillip A. Jones was born in June, 1818, and received his 
education at the primitive field schools of Kentucky frontier. When a young 
man he moved to Adair County, where he was afterward married, and has ever 
since been engaged in agricultural pursuits. He and wife are members of the 
church - he of the Christian and she of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 
His father, Thomas Jones, was a native of Virginia, and was one of the early 
settlers and prominent farmers of Taylor County, Ky. Mrs. Elizabeth V. 
(Humphries) Jones was born February 14, 1810, and departed this life in 
September, 1878. Her father, James Humphries, was also a native of Virginia, 
but when only a lad he ran away from home and engaged himself to drive a team 
for a man who was moving to Kentucky. He drove this team all the way over the 
mountains and through a wilderness, infested on every hand by wild and 
ferocious beats, to Taylor County. Here he grew to manhood, was afterwards 
married, and settled on the Green River, in Adair County. James W. Jones has 
been all his life engaged in agricultural pursuits, making for several years 
the culture of tobacco a specialty. October 12, 1861, he enlisted in Company 
C, Twenty-seventy Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (Federal service) and served 
with his regiment in all its marches and engagements until the close of the 
war, being mustered out at Louisville, Ky., in March, 1865. He participated in 
the battles of Stone River, Knoxville, Bean Station, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, 
Lost Mountain, Altona, the battles around Atlanta and many other lesser 
engagements. At Stone River he had two brothers and a brother-in-law killed, 
all of whom were near him in the action. He was married February 22, 1859, to 
Miss Susan A. Adams, a native of Taylor County, Ky., born October 20, 1843.  
She is a daughter of John and Eliza
(Baley) Adams, both natives of Marion County, Ky., and of English descent. 
Eight children have blessed their union, viz.: Hezekiah B., Sarah E. 
(deceased), Geo. G., Eliza F., Susan M., Nancy E., John W. and James P. Both 
Mr. Jones and wife are members of the Christian Church. In politics he is a 
Republican, and is one of the respected citizens of the district and county. 
Mr. Jones' parents, Philip A. and Elizabeth V. (Humphries) Jones, were 
remarkably stout or heavy persons, each weighing over 300 pounds, and their 
joint weights aggregating 746 pounds.


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