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Source:
History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio
Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co.
1884

Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
W. D. JAMES, attorney at law, was born in Pike County,  Dec. 1, 1853, a son of David and Charlotte C. (Beauchamp) James.  He was reared on a farm in the southeast part of the county, and was educated at the common schools, receiving private instruction in the higher branches of study.  At the age of seventeen he taught his first school in Pike County, and continued teaching during the winter months for five years.  In the spring of 1874 he entered the office of John T. Moore at Waverly, and began reading law.  The following year Mr. Moore moved to Jackson and Mr. James then continued his studies under the supervision of George D. Cole, till 1877.  In April of this year he was admitted to the bar, and in July following opened an office at Piketon.  In the spring of 1879 Mr. James was elected Mayor of Piketon.  In December, 1881, moved to Waverly, where he has since been engaged in practice, which is steadily increasing.  He was married, Sept. 26, 1882, to Terrena F. Martin, a native of Scioto County.  Mr. James is a young lawyer of ability, and possesses a great degree of energy.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 763
Newton Twp. - Page 835
F. E. JEFFRIES, son of Joseph and Emma Jeffries, was born May 31, 1857, in Jackson, Ohio, where he lived till he was nine years old.  He then moved to Waverly and attended the schools of that place a short time, after which he went to Sharonville and attended the public schools there for three years.  He then began the mercantile business in Jasper, and is at present superintending a store on the canal for S. N. Cutler.  March 20, 1881, he was married to Sarah Rodgers.  They have one child - Nellie, aged one and a half years.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884
Perry Twp. -
EDMUND SEHEN JONES, youngest son of Thomas and Mary A. Jones, was born Sept. 17, 1843, in Pike County, on the farm where he now resides.  He was reared no the farm and attended the common schools till twenty years of age.  He then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where he took a two years' course.  After leaving college he clerked in J. D. Osborn & Co.'s dry goods store at Columbus, Ohio, two years after which he attended Duff's Commercial College at Pittsburg, Pa., from which he graduated at the end of three months.  He then returned to Bainbridge where he has since followed farming and has one of the finest farms in the township.  He has been Justice of the Peace of his township and is at present Township Trustee.  He was married Apr. 1, 1871, to Mary L. daughter of Thomas and Eliza Morrow of Bainbridge, Ohio.  They have one son - Edwin Thomas.  His parents were born in Radnorshire, Wales, and came to the United States in 1820, and were married at Columbus, Ohio.  They had nine children, five now living.  At the time of his death in 1853, Mr. Jones owned nearly 700 acres of land in Pike County.  His widow is still living in her eighty-fourth year.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 860
Jackson Twp. -
MASON JONES, second son of William and Jane (Corken) Jones, was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1821.  His father was a native of New Jersey, and was brought by his father, Thomas Jones, to Ross County in 1800.  After reaching seventy-five or eighty years of age he removed to Missouri where he died, surviving his wife but a few years.  The subject of our sketch has made farming his principal occupation, also dealing in stock.  He was married in 1849 to Clarissa Corwine, daughter of Samuel Corwine, of Jackson Township.  They have had a family of ten children - Thomas C., a farmer and stockdealer, now residing on the old homestead in Ross County, married Martha Rittenhouer, and has one son; William A., a farmer stock dealer and teacher, resides near Sharonville, married Ella McGinniss, who died leaving a daughter, Iona,  now residing with her grandparents, and he afterward married Mella Hanna, by whom he has one daughter - Grace M.; Jacob Edgar, a farmer and teacher of Pickaway County, Ohio, married Lena, daughter of Lawrence Brust; Eugene R., Samuel W., John F., Jennie E., Margaret Luella, George and Mary, the two latter deceased.  Mr. Jones resides on a part of the old Corwine estate, owning a beautiful farm of 600 acres.  He is a staunch supporter of the Republican party.  Mr. Jones is a member of the Friends Society.  His wife is a member of the Methodist church.  He and his six sons are great temperance men, none ever using any intoxicating drink, nor even selling the grain to make it.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 801


W. S. Jones

Waverly - Pee Pee Twps. -
GENERAL WELLS S. JONES, M. D., was born Aug. 3, 1830, in Ross County, Ohio, the third of eight children of Robert P. and Nancy Jones, both natives of Berkeley County, Va.  His father was born Mar. 4, 1804, and his mother Mar. 30, 1805.  His parents at an early date came to Ohio and settled in Paxton Township, Ross County, where his father still lives, and his mother died Sept. 13, 1879.  Our subject received a good education in his early life, and remained on his father's farm till he reached his majority.  In 1851 he went to McLean County, Ill., and spent two years in farming and teaching, when he returned home and began the study of medicine.  He graduated from Sterling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and in the spring of 1856 commenced the practice of medicine in Jasper, Pike County, and continued practicing in Jasper and Waverly until the opening of the Rebellion, when he gave up a lucrative practice to enter the service of this country.  In the fall of 1861 he recruited Company A, Fifty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was commissioned its Captain.  It was then first full company taken to camp from Pike County.  In February, 1862, his regiment joined General Sherman's Division at Paducah, Ky.  The first battle in which he was engaged was at Shiloh, Apr. 6 and 7, 1862.  For his gallant conduct in this battle he was promoted to Colonel, and immediately was placed in command of the Fifty-third Regiment, Ohio Infantry.  He commanded his regiment until August, 1864, when he was placed in command of the second Brigade, Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps, which latter command he kept until the close of the war.  He commanded his regiment and brigade in every battle in which they were engaged, never having left the scene of active hostilities during the entire four years in which he was engaged in the service.  He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Jackson, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and with Sherman to the sea.  While leading his brigade in the memorable assault on Fort McAllister, near Savannah, he was wounded by a minie-ball, disabling him from active service for one month.  After the grand review at Washington he served with his brigade in Arkansas, and was mustered out of service in September, 1865, and has ever since resided in Waverly.  General Jones is politically a republican, and is a leading politician of his party.  In the fall of 1866 he was a candidate for Congress, and the following year for State Senator.  In 1869 he was appointed Internal Revenue Assessor of the Twelfth Congressional District and held the position four years, till the office was abolished.  In recommending him for that position General Sherman thus speaks of him in a letter to his brother, Senator John Sherman, of Ohio: "General Jones commanded a regiment and then a brigade under me, from the beginning to the close of the war.  He is entitled to any civil office he may aspire to, and I cordially indorse him."  In connection with his medical practice, General Jones is largely interested in mercantile and agriculture pursuits.  He is active or religious.  By his public spirit and indomitable enterprise, the first railroad of Pike County, the Ohio Southern, was built, and he was one of its incorporators.  In the spring of 1880 he was appointed by Governor Foster one of the Trustees of the Ohio Deaf and Dumb Asylum, which position he has filled for the post three years.  Sept. 3, 1866, he was married to Elizabeth H., daughter of William and Harriet Kincaid.  She died Mar. 16, 1876.  June 20, 1881, he married Mary F. M., daughter of Samuel F. and Lydia L. Wetmore.  She was a native of Bangor Me., and has resided in Waverly since sixteen years of age.  They have one son - Robert Ralph.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884 - Page 763
Marion Twp. - Page 814
WILLIAM R. JONES was born Oct. 14, 1858, a son of William and Elizabeth (Adams) Jones.  When he was two years old his father died, and his mother a few years later in Ashland, Ky.  He then resided with his grandparents at Ashland.  They subsequently moved to Olive Hill, Ky., and from there to Webster, Scioto Co., Ohio, and thence to California, Pike County.  While still a boy he went with his grandfather, Rev. H. Adams, to Minnesota, and remained there till manhood.  He then returned to Pike County, and soon after joined an exploring party, and made a tour through the Southwestern States, and located a tract of land on the Llano Escanado.  He then returned to Ohio and engaged in the patent-right business, traveling in Southern Ohio and Kentucky, and for the past two yeas has resided in California, Pike County.  Mr. Jones has exhibited a spirit of perseverance that is commendable, and has shown himself possessed of more than ordinary business ability.  Being early thrown on his own resources he has won the respect and esteem of a large circle of acquaintances.  He is a member of West Union Knights of Pythias.  Politically he is a Republican.
Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884

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