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During the Civil War, James Gray fitted out a Company for the army which was called the Gray Company and was afterward Co. F. 45th Georgia Regiment. During the Civil War his large plantation helped to feed the soldiers. the widows and children left here and others who needed help. He did all in his power to help the Confederate cause.
During reconstruction, Gray, with others like Col. Blount, Dr. Barron, Roland Ross and others did a great work in keeping Tones County in the hands of the white people. When he died he left the bulk of his property to Mercer University to be used
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to educate the boys of Jones County. The County site of Gray was named for him. Jones County's first citizen, no other county had one more loyal.
The famous recipe of James Gray for mint julep : "Into each glass goblet pour a few spoonsful of sweetened water, pack in crushed ice, then pour a ruby colored liquor grown old in the deep cellar, use a wine glass full. Plant a bunch of fresh mint in the top of each glass. Use a toddy stick to bruise the mint as the guest chooses."
Excerpts from Jones Co. News-1909. S. N. Griswold)
SAMUEL GRISWOLD
Edward Griswold b. 1607; Thomas Griswold b. Sept. 29, 1658, m. Hester Drake and had a son Samuel b. August 7, 1685, who m. Deborah Holcomb and had a s. Samuel, b. 1715, who had ch. Delight and Jeremiah. Jeremiah b. Feb. 1746, m. Phoebe Case and their son was the Samuel, b. Dec. 27, 1790 who m. Louisa Forbes on April 7, 1813 and came to Jones County about 1820.
The first Griswold's to come to America, came over in 1620 from Windsor, England. Samuel Griswold born on Dec. 27, 1790 died Sept. 14, 1867, the son of Jeremiah Griswold, mar- ried Louisa Forbes (dau. of Elisha Forbes) on April 7, 1813, in Burlington, Connecticutt. Their first son died, (Roger) and the Griswold's decided to take their daughter Lucia, b. August 6, 1816, and come south to a better climate. They came to Clinton, Jones Co., Ga. about 1820. He secured employment as a clerk in a store in the village and his wife, to assist him, secured work as a tailoress, and so occupied her spare hours for several years.
Samuel was possessed of native shrewdness in business and a sterling character. In a few years he had saved enough money, which together with his good credit, enabled him to establish a factory for the manufacture of cotton gins. It was located where Roy Coulter now lives, and he built a house across the road on Bonnner's Hill. When the railroad was built from Savannah to Macon he saw the advantage of having his factory on a railroad, so he bought a tract of land, established the village of Griswold- ville in Jones Co., and located his plant there, which was making 900 gins a year. He built about twenty homes for his employees,
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a large house for himself, one for his son, a grist mill, a saw mill and a church. He made holes through twelve foot logs and plac- ing them end to end piped water to his dwelling and mill. He soon accumulated a fortune, and much land. During the Civil War his factory was leased to the Confederate government and made pistols and munitions. When Sherman came through in 1864, he saw that the entire works was leveled to the ground by fire.
The revolver made at Griswoldville was called the Griswold and Grier Revolver. It had a brass frame, 71/2 in. barrel, a 36 caliber, fired six shots, rifled, six grooves right. Made from 1862-64. No marks on it except the serial 2419 on cylinder and left side of frame and barrel lug. There were 3,600 of these pistols made before the factory was burned. (see cut)
An account of the gins Griswold made is found in the "Letters of S. H. Griswold," who was a grandson.
Chil. of Samuel and Louisa Forbes Griswold were: (1) Giles Humphry Griswold, b. Jan. 14, 1821 mar. Penina Temperance Newton (only ch. of Josiah Newton) on Sept 2, 1841. Their d. Lucia Griswold, b. Oct. 3, 1844 in Jones Co. mar. Col. Isaac Hardeman, b. Aug. 29, 1834, son of Robert Vines and Elizabeth Clark Henderson Hardeman. Children of Lucia and Isaac Hardeman were Roberta (Jones), John, Giles, Dolly Mariah, Lucia Pauline (Chappell), Isaac, Ellen, Louise and Frank.
Other ch. of Giles and Penina T. Griswold were: William, Annie, Lula, Lizzie, Ella and Josiah.
(2) Elisha Case Griswold, m. Anne Elizabeth Hardeman (dau. of Thomas Hardeman). Their son Samuel Hardeman Griswold m. Nelle Brown and had ch. S. H. Griswold, Jr., who m. Laura Brown and had ch. (1) Samuel Sidney Griswold, (2) Julia, (Mrs. Sam J. May) (3) Ada, deceased. (4) Nelle Brown Griswold who m. Peyton T. Anderson and had ch., Laura Nelle (O'Callaghan) Peyton T. Anderson, Jr., who m. Catherine Mc- Clure and their ch. are : Catherine (Bleidtrue) and Laura De- rele Anderson.
(3) Lucia, mar. Francis Solomon Johnson (she was b. Aug. 6, 1816) lived in Clinton in old Johnson home and had ten ch : (1) Louise, mar. William Ethridge, (2) Francis 1. Jr., mar.
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Emily Hutchings, (3) Elisha died young. (4) Horatio died in an accident. (5) Cater, d. from accidental gunshot. (6) Samuel d. from wounds received in Civil War. (7) Richard, mar. Annie Griswold, had Lois, Holmes, William and Berner. (8) Holmes, mar. Sallie Hinton. (9) Betty Lucia m. 1st Wm. Lundy, 2nd, Bert Catchings. (10) William, never mar. When Lucia died, F. S. Johnson, Sr. mar. 2nd Cordelia Morgan, had one s. Dorsey who d., Elizabeth Johnson, m. Robert Reynolds.
Lois, dau of Francis S. and Lucia G. Johnson mar. Francis Marion Stewart and had ch. Francis M. Jr. who mar. Lucile Larkin from Houston, Texas and had Francis, III, and Jimmy Richard, mar. Anne Stewart and had: Marcus, Holmes and Dick. Joseph, mar. Elisha Speights and had ch. Elisha and Joseph, Jr. William, s. of Richard and Annie Johnson, mar. Louise Solomon and had Patsy who m. Frank Childs and had s .; Frank, Jr., Richard and Craig. Berner m. Frances Solomon and had ch. Annie Louise and Berner Richard.
(4) Annie Griswold mar. James Stubbs.
(5) Mary, mar. Gen. D. N. Smith.
(6) Ellen, mar. Capt. Richard Bonner in 1836.
(7) Eliza T., mar. 1st Henry Dorsey, m. 2nd Col. E. C. Grier.
COL. BENJAMIN HAWKINS
Col. Benjamin Hawkins for several years was a citizen of Jones County and his will is recorded here and may be found in the Ordinary's office at the Gray courthouse. He was born in Butte Co. (now Warren Co.) of North Carolina on August 15, 1754. His parents were Col. Philemon and Delia Martin Hawk- ins. Benjamin Hawkins went to Princeton until the Revolution- ary War suspended it. He was good in French and became the translator for George Washington and was with him at the Bat- tle of Monmouth in 1779. He was a member of Congress in 1782-83. In 1785 he was appointed Commissioner to treat with the Cherokees, and other Indians South of them, as well as to deal with the Creeks; duties which he faithfully performed. In 1786 he was again elected to Congress, and in 1889 to the U. S. Senate for six years. After this he was appointed Supt. of all Indian affairs South. He established a large farm, built mills,
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houses, wagons and had implements of all kinds. The inventory of his estate shows that his library was a very fine one. His large herd of cattle the Indians helped protect while he lived, but stole them when he died. His slaves and estate were probably worth a million dollars.
Benjamin Hawkins' will dated Jan. 9, 1812 and probated Sept. 2, 1816 names his wife Lavinia Downs and a son Madison, daughters, Georgia, Muskogee, Cherokee, Carolina, Virginia, a nephew, William Hawkins of N. C. as beneficiaries. The will was witnessed by: Christian Lumbough, Thomas M. Ellis, and John Jameson.
Mary Downs, sister of Mrs. Benjamin Hawkins ( Lavinia Downs) mar. Henry Carr whose son was Henry, Jr., who mar. his first cousin Virginia Hawkins, dau. of Lavinia and Benj. Hawkins. The Carrs moved West about 1850, Mary died in 1851. Benjamin's dau. Muscogee mar. Capt. Christopher Kizer on April 20, 1819 in Clinton, Ga.
George Washington asked Hawkins to accept the Indian agency, and because of a sense of duty he accepted. This man, well educated and wealthy gave up a life he had been educated and fitted for to go into the Indian wilderness and spend the rest of his life for his country. He resigned the post several times, but no President would accept his resignation as they felt that he was indispensible to his country in that capacity. Many Indians named their sons for Hawkins. Stalwart Indian warriors signed their cross marks to the name of "Benjamin Hawkins". He was a close friend of Gen. Nathaniel Greene. So friendly were the Indians that in the war of 1812, a regiment was raised with Col. Hawkins as their Col. and the celebrated Chief Wm. McIntosh as the Lt. Col.
Our history shows no finer character than this sterling patriot who gave up a career in the Senate to bury himself in the wilder- ness for twenty years to serve his country. ("Men of Mark," by William Northern)
Col. Hawkins possessed a degree, not only of science to con- ceive anything he desired, but the common sense necessary to its full achievement. Fort Hawkins was built as protection against
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the Indians and was used as a trading post, a source of army supplies, for treaty making and the paying of annuities.
This was built in 1806 and was a place of considerable im- portance during the war of 1812 and the subsequent Indian wars. Col. Hawkins was a diplomat and no doubt made the lives of both Indians and whites better and safer while he lived. In July 1817 over 1,400 Indians assembled at Fort Hawkins for annu- ities. No doubt the setting was unusual, with the haughty chiefs seated around their campfires and in the background the tower- ing pine trees and the old forts, as Col. Hawkins and the others talked with the chiefs and settled their difficulties. The Indians loved Hawkins and the four tribes, Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws and Chickasaws named him, "Beloved man of the Four Na- tions". He played an important role in the history of Jones as well as Bibb County, and America.
He moved his headquarters to the old Agency on the Flint river and after 1819 no garrison was stationed here. Col Hawk- ins died June 6, 1816 at the Agency and was buried on the banks of the Flint river. It is said that his trusty Negro bodyguard is buried by him, in the plot overlooking the territory that was at one time an Indian reservation which he commanded. Weeds and brush grew over his grave, but 131 years later the Boy Scouts found the grave and cleared it and now it is marked and cared for by a Crawford County Commission.
ROBERT VINES HARDEMAN
Robert Vines Hardeman was born in Oglethorpe Co., Ga., on April 26, 1800. He was the son of John Hardeman, a soldier of the Revolution who came to Georgia from Va. in 1784. His mother was Nancy Anne Collier, daughter of Vines Collier, an officer of the Colonial army who was present and participated in the capture of Fort Duquesne in the French and Indian Wars and later rendered special service during the Revolution. He, too, migrated from Va. to Wilkes Co. (later Oglethorpe) where Nancy was born. His father John Hardeman I, died in Ogle- thorpe Co. 1804. He was a strong advocate of the advantages of an education and saw that his sons had the best training avail- able. Old papers indicate that he was a man of prominence in his day. Robert Vines Hardeman was a prominent member of the
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Ga. Bar Association, served as Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit Superior Court, represented Jones County in the State legis- lature and was a Col. in the Cherokee Indian War. He married Elizabeth Clark Henderson on March 1, 1826. They lived at their plantation house "Sleepy Hollow", near Clinton where they reared their family and where he died May 17, 1871. They had five sons to grow to maturity. Isaac and Robert V. Hardeman, II were lawyers of ability who settled in Macon, Ga. Dr. John Har- deman, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was for years a prominent Christian and physician of Haddock. Thomas Hardeman was a successful lawyer at Louisville, Ga. and the father of Judge Robert N. Hardeman. Another son, Frank Hardeman lost his life during the Civil War in 1864 and was buried at Lynchburg, Va. Judge Robert Vines Hardeman and wife Elizabeth C. Henderson are buried in the old Clinton ceme- tery in Jones Co.
"Judge R. V. Hardeman lived at Sleepy Hollow, where Mr. Abe James now lives. He had been paralyzed some time and spent most of the time sitting on his front veranda. He was in his usual seat when Sherman's Yankees came rushing through. They soon had his horses and mules, and there was one mule which was a mule sure enough, and no one on the place could ride him. A Yankee had him bridled and was informed by some of the negroes on the place that no one could ride him; that he had never been ridden. "Oh", said the Yankee, "I'll ride him he has never had a real live Yankee on him before." He saddled him, hung his accoutrements upon the saddle, mounted and attempted to ride him, when lo, the mule jumped, crop-hopped, doubled up, bucked and threw Yankee, saddle and all head foremost over his head. 'Oh, oh," laughed Judge Hardeman, who had witness- ed the performance from his seat on the porch, "he rever rode a real live Georgia mule before."
(Copied from an old edition The Jones County News-1908)
ISAAC HARDEMAN
Col. Isaac Hardeman (1834-1914) a Lt. Col. in the Civil War, was born at the old Hardeman homeplace, "Sleepy Hol- low" on August 29, 1834 in Jones County near Clinton. He was one of five sons of Robert Vines Hardeman and Elizabeth
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Clarke (Henderson) Hardeman, who were mar. June 3, 1821 in Jones County, Clinton, Ga. The other sons living to maturity were Robert V., Jr., Thomas, John and Frank. Robert C. Harde- man, (b. April 26, 1800, d. May 19, 1871) was one of the out- standing lawyers of Middle Ga. He was a Representative from Jones Co. from 1840-1843, State Sen. from the old 25th dis. 1845, Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit Oct. 1853-Dec. 1859; he was one of the prosecutors of Elijah Barber in the celebrated Jesse L. Bunkley case in Jones Co. His wife Elizabeth C. Hen- derson Hardeman was b. Mar. 3, 1804, d. June 16, 1892. Isaac Hardeman, son, was brought up in the atmosphere of giant minds of great lawyers in old Clinton and he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1855 after graduating from the Uni- versity of Ga. He mar. Marietta Taylor Pitts of Jones County on Nov. 5, 1856. He enlisted in the service of the Confederate States at Clinton June 9, 1861. He became a Lt. Col. and was captured and imprisoned twice during the War. He fought in many major battles during the war, making a brilliant record. He came back to Jones County after the war to practice law at Clinton. His wife died June 18, 1866. On March 5, 1867 he married Mrs. Lucia Griswold Conn, widow of Charles A. Conn of Milledgeville, who was killed in the war. They had one son, Charles Giles Conn. Lucia was the daughter of Giles Humphreys Griswold and Penina Temperance Newton Griswold of Gris- woldville, Jones Co., who married Sept. 2, 1841. She was a granddaughter of Samuel Griswold (son of Jeremiah Griswold) and Louisa Forbes (daughter of Elisha Forbes) who were mar- ried in Connecticutt on April 7, 1813. Samuel Griswold the gin- maker later settled in Clinton, Jones County. In 1872 Col. Isaac Hardeman moved to Macon and in partnership with Col. James H. Blount also from Jones had a law firm. The children of Isaac and Lucia Griswold Hardeman were: Roberta Elizabeth (Mrs. George S. Jones) John (d. 1912) Giles Griswold, Lucia Pauline (Mrs. Clarence J. Chappell d. 1918) Lula, Isaac Jr., and Frank Logan (d. 1948 in Calif. ) .
JOHN HARDEMAN, M. D.
John Hardeman, M. D. was born in Jones County, Ga., Sept. 5, 1836 the son of Judge Robert Vines Hardeman and Elizabeth
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Clarke Henderson Hardeman. His boyhood was spent at the old plantation home "Sleepy Hollow", near Clinton and his edu- cation received at Clinton. From there he entered Oglethorpe University at Midway. He was granted special permission by the college officials to bring his bird dogs to which he was deeply attached. He was a member of the Thalian Society and graduat- ed from Oglethorpe in 1858. After leaving Oglethorpe he enter- ed the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia as a medical student, completing his training at the Pennsylvania Hospital, March 10, 1860. The subject of his Senior thesis was, "Ap- oplexy."
At the outbreak of the War Between the States he "shoulder- ed arms", rather than accept a safer place offered in the hospit- al service. He chose to cast his lot at the battle front where he served for four years as Captain of Company F of the 45th Ga. Regiment and was known to his comrades as "Captain Jack". His record in the war was an enviable one of which he was justly proud. He served with Gen. Stonewall Jackson and other noted Confederate Officers and participated in many major battles. While attached to the Army of Northern Virginia, under com- mand of Gen. Jackson, he saw his heaviest fighting, and lost his right thumb at Petersburg, Va., 1865.
On February 20, 1867, he married Mary Dorothy Whitaker of Midway, Ga. After his marriage he settled at Haddock, Ga. where he practiced medicine for many years until a stroke of paralysis forced him to retire from active service which was seven years before his death on January 23, 1914. He was a deeply religious man and practiced his Christianity as well as his profession. For a number of years he was Supt. of the Pleasant Grove Sunday School and never missed a service if he had to stay up all night he would somehow manage to be there. The church was eight miles away.
Dr. and Mrs. John Hardeman were the parents of one daugh- ter, Margaret Hardeman, who married James Cook of Colum- bus, Ga., and has one daughter, Margaret Cook Hendricks.
By Mrs. Hendricks
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ROBERT HUTCHINGS
Robert Hutchings, a pioneer citizen of Jones County, came down from Virginia before Jones County was formed and these lands were Baldwin Co. He was born in Dinwiddie Co., Va., in Aug. 27, 1780. He moved to the "Fort",in Jones Co. By 1813- 14 he was Tax Collector for Jones Co. He served in the legis- lature in 1824-24-26. He was a Royal Arch Mason. Died Nov. 27, 1847. He had mar. Drucilla Bonner in 1801, Sept. 3. Their children were: Charles, Rufus, Elbert, Richard, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Ellen Singleton, Mrs. Joseph Winship, Mrs. Warren Lowe. After Drucilla's death Robert married second, Mar. 24, 1840, Martha Hitchcock Trawick Harper. (Her 3rd marriage) The Hutchings family owned most of the lands near Fortville for many years they had many slaves and were planters of the ante-bellum period and leading citizens in the county. See Genea- ologies for more of this family.
ALFRED IVERSON, SR.
Alfred Iverson, b. in Burke County, Ga., Dec. 3, 1798. Gradu- ated from Princeton, and was a member of the Legislature for eight years. He was Judge of the Superior court of Columbus for seven years. In 1846 he went to U. S. Congress and in 1855 went as U. S. Senator. He withdrew in 1861 when Georgia se- ceded from the Union. During the war he was made a Brigadier- General. He died in Macon Ga. March 4, 1873. His son Alfred Iverson born while the family lived in Clinton was also a Brig. Gen. in the same war. Alfred Iverson, Sr. married Caroline Good Holt. Their Clinton home is now owned by Ben Willing- ham of Macon. Part of the Dennis Green home was Alfred Iverson's law office in Clinton. They moved to Columbus from Jones County where he also became a leader in that city. There is a picture of Iverson's old home and of Alfred Iverson, Jr. in this book.
Alfred Iverson represented Jones County in the Ga. Legisla- ture in 1822-28-29.
(Confederates Military History p 424-426)
BRIGADIER GENERAL ALFRED IVERSON, JR.
Brigadier General Alfred Iverson was born at Clinton, Geor- gia, Jones County, February 14, 1829, the son of Senator Alfred
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Iverson, who married Caroline Goode Holt. Young Iverson spent his childhood in Washington City and in Columbus, Ga. He was at the Military Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. when the Mexican war began. Though only seventeen years of age, he was so eager to go to the war that his father allowed him to leave school and enter a Ga. Regiment, that he had largely been in- strumental in equipping. After his service in Mexico he com- menced to study law in his father's law office in Columbus, Ga. but soon grew tired of that and began contracting on railroads in Georgia. In 1855 he received the appointment of First Lieut. in the United States Calvary, a regiment just then authorized by Congress. He recruited a company, mostly from Ga., and Ken- tucky, and reported for duty to Col. E. V. Sumner at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He was sent into Kansas during the troubles in that territory in 1856. While stationed at Carlisle, Pa., he married Miss Harriet Harris Hutchins, daughter of Judge N. L. Hutchins, of Gwinnett County, Ga. He was in the expedi- tion against the Mormons and on frontier duty at Fort Washita, Indian Territory, and engaged in expeditions against the Co- manchees and Kiowas.
When Georgia seceded from the Union, Lieut. Iverson re- signed his Commission from the U. S. Army, and goint to Mont- gomery, then the capitol of the Confederacy, offered his sword to the new republic. He was appointed Captain in the provisional army of the Confederate States, and ordered to report to Gen. Holmes in Wilmington, N. C. Here he was put in command of companies at the mouth of the Cape Fear river. Upon their or- ganization into a regiment known as the Twentieth North Caro- lina, he was elected Colonel and commissioned August 20, 1861. His command remained at the Cape Fear region until a few days before the Seven Days Battles around Richmond. Gen. D. H. Hill in a description of the battle of Gaines Mill said, "We dis- covered that our lines overlapped that of the Federal forces and saw two brigades (after ascertained to be under Lawton and Winder) advancing to make a frontal attack upon the regulars. Brig .- Gen. Samuel Garland and G. B. Anderson Commanding N. C. Brigades in my division, asked permission to move forward and attack the right flank and rear of the division of regulars.
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The only difficulty in the way was a Federal battery with its in- fantry supports, which could infilade them in their advance. Two regiments of Elzey's brigade which had gotten separated in go- ing across the swamp, were sent by me, by way of my left flank, to the rear of the battery to attack the infantry support, while Col. Alfred Iverson of the Twentieth N. C. charged it in front. The battery was captured and held long enough for the two bri- gades to advance across the open plain." This referred to the battle around the McGhee house. Col. Iverson was wounded dur- ing the Seven Days Battles, but when Hill's Division reinforced Lee after the second Manassas, he was in the field again, and participated in the battles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg. General Garland having been killed in Maryland, Col. Iverson was made a Brig .- General November 1, 1862. At Chancellors- ville and Gettysburg he led this brigade. He was, after these bat- tles, ordered to relieve H R. Jackson at Rome, Ga., where all the State forces were collected. When these were sent to other points and Bragg had fallen back upon Dalton, Iverson was put in command of a Ga. Brigade of Calvary in Martin's Division of Wheeler's Corps. He shared the arduous duties and brilliant victories of the calvary during the campaign of 1864. Near Macon (at Sunshine Church in Jones County) with 1300 men he defeated Stoneman's force of 3000, and captured Stoneman himself with 500 of his men.
After the war was over he settled in Macon where he engaged in business until 1877. He then moved to Orange County Fla., in which state he has since resided, engaging in orange culture. In 1878 he married the second time Miss Adela Branham, daughter of Dr. Joel Branham. In 1898 he resides at his orange groves near Kissimee, Oceola Co., Florida.
IVERSON, Alfred, Jr.
Buried : Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia. INSCRIPTION ON GRAVE STONE : ALFRED IVERSON, JR.
Brigadier General, Confederate States Army Born : Clinton, Jones County, Georgia, February 14, 1829 Died: Atlanta, Georgia, March 31, 1911.
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He was the son of Alfred Iverson, Sr. United States Senator from Georgia, and Caroline Goode Holt (By courtesy of Col. Thomas Spencer of Atlanta, Ga. )
COL. WILLIAM JONES
Kimbrough Jones of Warren County, N. C., married Mary Lynne Green and came to Wilkes, Elbert, Green and Baldwin Counties. As Jones County was formed from Baldwin, this line of Jones' had lived in Finney's District for several years. The old William Jones House was probably built before 1803 and was used for the first courthouse in Jones County. An account of this house may be found in another chapter. From this line of Jones', was also James Jones of Chatham County for whom this county was named.
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