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JOHN JONES was born August 12, 1840, in Graves County, Ky.; was taken in infancy by his parents to Wayne County, Mo., and in 1852 brought to Ballard County, Ky., where he has since resided. His father, Gabriel Jones, was born in Tennessee, and died in 1880 at the age of sixty-two years. He was the son of John, a Virginian, a soldier with Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. He died about 1855. John was the son of Edward Jones, of Virginia. Gabriel married Elizabeth, daughter of Counsel Alcock, of Graves County, Ky., and this union resulted in the birth of the following children: Alfred, subject, Christiana E. (Hamilton) and Martin V. In youth our subject obtained a limited education, having been engaged in the late war, serving in the Eighth Kentucky Federal Cavalry. On December 19, 1859, he married Miss Maria A., daughter of Jacob and Lettie (Burrow) Hamilton, of Ballard County, which union resulted in the birth of Maria A. (Carter). Mrs. Jones died in 1860, and subject next married, December 26, 1865, Miss Mary C., daughter of William and Pamelia A. (Dewitt) Paul, of Ohio County, Ky., and to them have been born Lucy E. (Dejarnett), John S. and Gabriel H. C. Mr. Jones is a farmer, having 200 acres of well cultivated land.