Jones, Lewis

JONES, JENKINS

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 14:26:03

JONES, Lewis
Farmer; Sec. 14; P. O. Newton; was born in Michigan, in 1844, and came to this county in 1869, and rents 160 acres of land. His wife, Rebecca Rhea JENKINS, was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Sept. 26, 1847; they were married Nov. 7, 1869, and have two children-Cora Letitia, born Aug. 9, 1870; Eola Lenora, born Aug. 4, 1875. Mr. JONES enlisted in Co. A, 30th Ind. V. I., in 1861, and was under the commands of Gens. Buell, Howard, Sherman and Thomas to the close of the war, and was in their principal battles. ~ "Mariposa Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)