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Ezekiel H. Jones is an honest tiller of the soil of Union County, Ark., and was born in Bibb County, Ala., in 1840, being the eighth of sixteen children born to Hugh and Jeanette (Woolley) Jones, who were also born in that State, the former being a Democrat, a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the time of his death, which occurred in 1864, at the age of fifty-five years. His widow survives him and still resides in Bibb County, Ala., where the most of her children are also residing, two being in Texas and three in Arkansas. The subject of this sketch obtained a good education in the country schools of Alabama, but in 1861 he dropped his books and work to join the Confederate army, and from that time until Lee’s surrender he served with Company A, Eighth Confederate Cavalry. He was at Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Chickamauga, and in many other engagements in which the Tennessee army participated, and was with Wheeler’s command when it surrendered to Sherman at Kingston, N. C, in 1865. He settled in Union County, Ark., near where he now lives, at the close of the war, and has since devoted his attention to tilling the soil, his farm comprising a tract of 400 acres, about 150 of which are under cultivation, yielding on an average one-half bale of cotton and twenty bushels of corn to the acre. His wife was formerly Miss Fannie Toole, whom he married October 18, 1806, a daughter of M. L. and Amelia (Lollie) Toole, who were born in Alabama, and in 1850 moved to Louisiana, settling at Homer. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, eight of whom are living: Lucy L., Alpha J., Dora, Charlie L., Claudius E., Eugene C., George F. and Bertie H. Lucy L. was married in 1887 to John B. Fuller, who resides in Claiborne Parish, La., and follows the occupation of farming. He is a Democrat, politically, a member of the Agricultural Wheel, and has long been connected with the Missionary Baptist Church.