Jones, Hardin

JONES

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/29/2008 at 14:02:25

Hardin Jones

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.226, Rockford Twp.)
Hardin Jones, farmer, P. O. Loveland, was born in 1810, in Kentucky, on the Green River, Casey County; then moved with his father to Orange County, Ind., the fall of 1826, and remained there till the fall of 1855, when he came here. All of his family came at the same time, except one daughter, who came before. His only son now living, has been living by him ever since, their farms adjoining each other. He first bought 280 acres of Calvin Beebe, paying $2,650, and since that he has added to his farm. He and son together have since had over 1,000 acres. Our subject now has 435 acres. Their farming is stock and grain. Mr. Jones served as County Judge one year, Auditor one year, Justice of the Peace for about twenty-one years. He was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace six days after he was eligible, and has been in county and township offices of some kind ever since till within a year. In moving here, they came in wagons, starting September 11 and arriving October 22, 1855. They camped out whenever night overtook them, and followed what was called the old Mormon trace. He is Democratic in politics. His first vote was for Gen. Jackson. He is a member of the Baptist Church. He was first married, October 18, 1832, to Asenath DuWeese. She died February 12, 1860. He was afterward married to Mrs. Mary Skelton, October 18, 1860. She died in March, 1881. He was again married to Mrs. Brunetta Moss. He had five children by his first wife; both his other wives had five children each when he married them, and he had no children by either of them.