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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Union County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Seaborn A. Jones has devoted his attention to farming in the State of Arkansas, since 1839, and in the pursuit of this calling he has been fairly successful, for he is now the owner of 240 acres of excellent land, of which about 100 acres are under cultivation, yielding the average amount of cotton and corn. Mr. Jones’ birth occurred in Clark County, Ala., June 23, 1823, the second of seven children of Jonas and Sarah (Deas) Jones, they being natives of North Carolina, moving to Alabama about 1816, and in 1839 to Arkansas, their deaths occurring in Union County, in 1856, at the age of sixty-six years, and in 1866, at the age of seventy-three, respectively. The former was a soldier in the War of 1836, in his political views a Democrat, and at the time of his demise, was a member of the Baptist Church. At the time of the settlement of Seaborn A. Jones in Union County, Ark., he found the country in a wild state, Champagnolle being the county seat, and his neighbors, with the exception of the red men, were few and far between. During the first year spent here he heard only one sermon preached. At the age of twenty, he was married to Miss Catherine Wroten, who was a daughter of Wiley and Margaret (Jones) Wroten, who came to Arkansas from Mississippi, in 1842, settling in Union County. After his marriage he immediately began farming on his present admirably conducted place and cut out the road to the same. Of twelve children born to himself and wife, six are living: Sarah M., Thomas T., Mollie M., Alice C, James B. and Jessie C. and Josephine C. Vitury A., Byrd W., Jonas K., Delia A. and Lillie O. (deceased). Sarah M. is married to R. M. Burnett, a merchant of Bowie, Tex. Thomas T. was married December 18. 1S77, to Miss Mollie Perdue, and resides in Union County, Ark. Mollie M. married W. H. Foshee, of Clanton, Ala., in November, 1875, he being clerk of the circuit court of Chilton County, having served as the same for fourteen years. Alice is the wife of W. H. Hill, a merchant of Three Creeks, and James B. was married to Miss Georgia A. Morgan, of this county. Mr. Jones enlisted in the Confederate army, in 1862, and went to Fredericksburg, Va., where he was rejected on account of physical disability. He afterward joined a cavalry company, but was in no important engagement. He has always been a Democrat, is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and also belongs to the Masonic fraternity, having joined Oakville Lodge No. 43, in 1848, being at present a Royal Arch Mason. He is a member of the Farmers’ Alliance. Although sixty-seven years of age, he has never aspired to public office, and has never served as a juryman, nor been sued. He is public spirited, a patron of education, and has given his children good educational advantages, and has seen them grow to honorable manhood and womanhood.

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This family biography is one of 84 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Union County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Union County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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