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James Y. Jones. Among the early settlers of Arkansas were William and Isabella (Kerley) Jones, originally of Tennessee, but came to Yell County in 1852, bringing with them a family of ten children, James Y., who was born in Hardeman County, Tenn., in February, 1840, being about twelve years old. Here the father bought land and immediately began farming, his son (our subject) remaining with him till he was twenty years old, when he was married to Miss Inez Adcock, daughter of W. E. Adcock, also of Yell County, and to them were born eight children: Cynthia Ann Isabella, James R., William A., Edward A. (deceased), Martha F., Irene Elizabeth, Levi (deceased), and Thomas Henry. In December, 1879, he was bereaved of this wife, and some time after married the widow of John Simmons, one child, Anderson, being the result of this marriage, and for his third and present wife he married the widow of John Hogan. Our subject has always been a farmer, following this from his boyhood days up to manhood, receiving but very little schooling, and he now owns 120 acres in the Fourche River bottoms, fifty of which are highly improved. During the Rebellion he became a soldier in the Confederate Army, enlisting in Company E, of the Twenty-first Arkansas Regiment, and was captured at Vicksburg and sent to Indianapolis, from there to Fort Delaware, thence to Point Lookout, and kept in confinement nine months, at the expiration of which time he was paroled and returned home, never going into service again, but after twelve months at home was again taken prisoner, and detained for two weeks, when he escaped and served as a scout till the close of the war, then came home and took up his farm duties again. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Baptist Church in religion.