My Genealogy Hound

Robert T. Jones, farmer, stock raiser, and a prominent citizen of the Fifteenth District, was the son of Anderson and Anna (Thompson) Jones, and was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., 1837, and was one of eight children, five of whom are living, and all in Dyer County. They are our subject, Mrs. Margaret Gauldin, Mrs. Abigail House, Mrs. Isabella Pitts and Mrs. Mary Watson. The father was of Dutch ancestry, born in Davidson County, in 1805. His grandfather, Ezra Jones, was a native of North Carolina, and one of the early settlers of Rutherford County. Our subject’s uncle, Enoch H. Jones, served in the war of 1812, and had the honor of unveiling the statue of Gen. Jackson, at Nashville. Anderson Jones married Miss Anna Thompson, February 22, 1834. In 1851 he moved to Arkansas, and a year later to Dyer County, buying 500 acres of land, and died in December, 1872. Mrs. Jones was born in Rutherford County, in 1811, and now lives with her son, Robert. Our subject enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, in Company H, Forty-seventh Tennessee Infantry, and was third lieutenant. He was at Shiloh and Corinth. At the latter place he was taken ill and returned home, and soon after joined the cavalry under Gen. Forrest’s command, and remained until the war closed, after three years’ service. In 1862 he married Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Moses A. and Mary A. House. They had seven children, five of whom are living: Mary A., wife of William L. Holloman; Moses T., Robert E., Enoch H. and Josiah I. Mr. Jones owns a farm of 500 acres. About 300 acres of it are in Gibson County, and are located three miles southeast of Trimble. Mr. Jones is a good citizen, a man of integrity and kind heart. His first vote was for John Bell, being formerly a Whig, but he is now a Democrat. He is a Mason, and belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. Mrs. Jones was born in Gibson County, November 25, 1845, and died January 23, 1886.