Jones, Uriah

JONES, PARK, BOYD

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Date: 3/18/2010 at 22:47:42

History of Poweshiek County Iowa 1880
Madison Township
Page 954

JONES, URIAH--Farmer and carpenter, section 10, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in 1813, in Greene Co., Pennsylvania. He lived on a farm with his parents, and after receiving his education, at the age of nine years moved to Monongalia county, Virginia, where, in his seventeenth year he was married to Miss Mary Park, of the same place. He engaged in farming quite extensively till 1835, when he, with his family, moved to Indiana, where he learned the carpenter's trade. In 1838 Mrs. Jones, after a lingering sickness and much suffering, departed this life. In 1839 Mr. Jones married, for his second wife, Elizabeth Boyd, of Clinton county, Indiana, and in 1852 moved to Linn county, Iowa, where he remained till 1855, when he settled on his present farm, to which he has since added eighty acres, making in all 200 of well improved land with modern improvements. Mr. Jones is the father of four children by the first marriage, all now dead, one of the number being killed in a well. By his second marriage he has had twelve children, two girls and ten boys; two of the boys have since died. Nine of the living children are married; the youngest, who is twenty years old, lives in the far West. Mr. Jones is the oldest resident man in the township, there being but two men here when he came, who have since moved away. He used to go to Cedar Rapids to mill; was the first to petition to organize the township, since which time he has held all the township offices, and in 1875 received the nomination on the Democratic ticket for Representative, being defeated by a small majority.