JONES, Enoch

JONES

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/31/2021 at 12:40:20

Enoch Jones
born Mar 6, 1825

Enoch Jones, a well-known citizen of Battle Creek, Iowa, has since been a resident of Ida County since 1852. Following is a brief sketch of his life: Enoch Jones was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, March 6, 1825. John Jones, his grandfather, married a native of Wales. He was a prominent hotel man of Culpeper, Virginia. Moving to Bourbon County, Kentucky, he settled on Boone creek, and was a participant in many of the Indian wars. His son, James Jones, father of Enoch, was born in Virginia and married Dicie Gregory, a native of that State. After their marriage they went to Kentucky, and there spent the rest of their lives. They lived on a plantation, and reared a family of eight children. The father was a member of the Christian Church and a prominent official in the same. Politically, he was a Democrat. The subject of our sketch was reared and educated in Kentucky, and there learned the trade of blacksmith which he followed some years. In 1852 he made the journey to Dubuque, Iowa, via the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and settled at Scott’s Grove, in Jones County, Iowa, where he was engaged in farming and operated a thresher. He opened up and improved a farm of 320 acres there. In 1874 he first bought land in Ida County, and about this time he also dealt in land in Woodbury county. He came to Battle Creek in 1883 to look after his real-estate interests, was pleased with the situation, and located at Battle Creek. He was also for eleven years engaged in the general merchandise business at Monticello, Iowa. This was between 1863 and 1873. Mr. Jones is now making a specialty of horses, buying and selling both draft and roadsters. He has some very fine horses, among which are Union Jack, a large chestnut sorrel, and Randolph, a dark brown hackney. Both were imported from England, the former in 1887, and the latter in 1889. At the age of twenty-two Mr. Jones was married in Fleming County, Kentucky, to Miss E. Lightfoot, who was born near Corydon Indiana, daughter of James and Mildred (Delaney) Lightfoot. She went to Fleming county when a child, and was there reared. Her father died in Indiana and her mother in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had the following named children: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Crane, of Maple township, Ida county, Iowa; Armilda married Mr. Addudell, and died, leaving four sons, William, Eddie, Newton and Arthur; Laura Bell, the youngest, died aged fourteen, her death occurring first of all. Mr. Jones is in politics, a Democrat, in religion, an Adventist, and socially, a member of the Masonic fraternity. He was a charter member of the Masonic lodge, organized at Cascade, Iowa, in 1854. He is a man of marked business ability, has been financially successful in his various undertakings, and is ranked with the substantial men of Battle Creek. He owns three good residences here.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.444