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Born 1834
From Memorial record of Licking County, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of representative citizens of the country, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States (1894), Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County Ohio, vol. II: Biographies (1909)
REV. EDWARD I. JONES, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Newark, was born in Wales in August, 1834, to Isaac and Gwenllyan Jones. The family emigrated to the United States in 1839 and settled in Gallia County, Ohio, where the parents died, the father when sixty and the mother at the age of mncty-five. In his native land the father had followed the occupation of a cooper, but after coming to Ohio he engaged in farming pursuits.
In early life Isaac Jones was a member of the Church of England, but after coming to the United States he joined the Congregational Church, of which his wife was long a devoted member and in the faith of which both passed from earth. He was a poor man when he came to this country, but being industrious and energetic, he became well-todo, and in his declining years enjoyed all the comforts of life. He had two brothers and two sisters, namely: John, a prominent farmer of Gallia County, who founded a Congregational Church there; Daniel, who died soon after coming to the United States; Jane, who married Evan Jones and lived in Gallia County, and Nancy, Mrs. John L. Davis, who died soon after coming to this country.
There were in the family of Isaac Jones five children who attained years of maturity. John, a farmer by occupation, was killed at the age of forty-five by a boiler explosion in a sawmill in Gallia County. William, who combined the trade of a stonemason with the calling of a farmer, died in Gallia County at thirty-eight years, leaving several children, some of whom have attained prominence. Thomas, who was also a stonemason and a farmer, died at the age of fifty-six years. The next in order of birth is the subject of this sketch, while the youngest is Daniel, pastor of Storr’s Congregational Church at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Alternating attendance at the neighboring schools with work on the farm, Edward I. Jones grew to manhood. At the age of twenty he entered the Ohio University at Athens, and later studied theology in the seminary at Oberlin. In 1858 he entered the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Conference and for twenty years served that denomination at Pomeroy, Zanesville, Newark, Columbus and other places. Wherever he was pastor he was honored and respected by his parishioners and always, with one exception, remained as long as the rules of the denomination would permit.
In the fall of 1878 Mr. Jones returned to Newark, where he founded a Congregational Church. Meetings were at first held in the opera house and city hall, and in the latter place, May 21, 1879, the Ply’mout!i Congregational Church was organized with sixty’-eight members, thirty-one by letter and thirty-seven by profession. The congregation continued to worship in the city hall until they entered their own building on North Fourth Street, in December, 1884. The lot and edifice have cost the members about 87,000, and are free from incumbrance. The membership has steadily increased until there are now over four hundred names on the lunch roll, and there is also a large and interesting Sunday-school. While the pastor lias no stipulated salary, he is well supported by the free will offerings of the people. Since accepting the pastorate in 1878, he has attended nine hundred and seventy-three funerals (many of them of poor people) and has performed the ceremony at eight hundred and twelve marriages.
'I'll rough reading and travel Mr. Jones has acquired a broad fund of information, and is a ripe scholar and polished gentleman. In 188G he made a tour of England and Scotland and visited h is old home in Wales. Since his return he has frequently delivered lectures concerning his travels, and is also a popular lecturer upon other themes. He is in sympathy with every reform and upholds every public-spirited measure. In 1856 his first ballot was cast, at which time lie supported John C. Fremont, and he advocated the principles of the Republican party until about eight years ago, when he joined the ranks of the Prohibitionists and now votes with that party.
In 1862 Rev. Mr. Jones married Miss Helen, daughter of Dr. James W. Cherrmgton. She was born in Jackson County, Ohio, and died after having become the mother of three daughters now living. Olive is now librarian at theOhioState University in Columbus; Helen Grace is a fine musician; Winifred Cherrington is attending school. In March, 1890, Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Miss Cynthia Cherrington, a sister of his former wife, and an estimable lady, who assists her husband in his ministerial labors by her encouragement and helpful counsel.
As printed in Memorial record of Licking County, Ohio : containing biographical sketches of representative citizens of the country, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States (1894). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
EDWARD JONES.
Edward Jones is the owner of an excellent farming property which he purchased in 1892. It comprises one hundred and twelve acres of valuable land only about a quarter of a mile west of Alexandria and is one of the best improved farm properties of the locality, constituting an attractive feature in the landscape. Here he is now supervising his farming interests, although he-has reached the seventy-sixth milestone on the journey of life. He was born in Licking county, Ohio, April 22, 1833, and is therefore a representative of one of its oldest pioneer families. His parents were Maurice and Jane (Glynn) Jones, natives of Wales. The father was born in 1790 and when twenty-one years of age became a resident of Baltimore, Maryland. He spent some time in the east but when able to buy a farm made his way westward and located in Licking county, purchasing one hundred and twenty-one acres of timber land in Newton township, five miles north of Newark. He made three trips here across the mountains from Pennsylvania on horseback and later came with a wagon and took up his permanent above. The remainder of his life was spent on the farm which he purchased here up to the time of his retirement from business cares, when he located in Newark, where his death occurred when he was eighty-two years of age. He had long survived his wife, who died in Newton township, in 1852, at the age of forty-three years. His life was ever in harmony with his professions as a member of the Baptist church and in the work of the church he took an active and helpful part, serving as one of the deacons. His family numbered eight children: Sarah Jane, now the widow of Thomas D. Price; Edward, of this review; J. B., a prominent attorney who died in Newark, December 16, 190%; Enoch, living in Granville; Elizabeth, the deceased wife of Rev. D. E. Owen, who was pastor of the Baptist church of Newark for fourteen years and erected the house of worship there; Maurice, living in McKean township; Mary Ann, the wife of M. O. Nash, justice of the peace of Newark; and Caroline, living with her sister Mary.
On the old home farm Edward Jones was reared and the days of his boyhood and youth were passed in the usual manner of farm lads of the period. Later he carried on the work of the home farm but in 1865 removed from Newton township to St. Albans township, where he has now lived for forty-four years. He resided with his parents up to the time of his marriage in 1859, when he began farming on his own account in Newton township, operating a part of his father’s farm on the shares. In connection with his brother Enoch he purchased over three hundred acres on the Appleton road on the township line of Liberty and, St. Albans townships. At length the property was divided and upon his portion Edward no" i "i ya. ee ou
Jones resided for about seventeen years, cultivating a tract of one hundred and sixty acres, which he brought under a high state of improvement. At length he sold that property and purchased Shaw farm a quarter of a mile west of Alexandria. Jn 1902 he disposed of that property and bought his present home, comprising one hundred and twelve acres on the Johnstown and Alexandria road, a quarter of a mile west of the latter town. Here he has a good brick residence, containing nine rooms, and in the rear stands substantial barns and outbuildings, furnishing ample shelter for grain and stock. He carries on general farming with dairying as a special feature of his place and in his business interests is meeting with gratifying success through his capable control of the various departments of the work.
In 1859 Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Phoebe Ann Pittsford, who was born in Granville township, this county, in July, 1839, and died in 1863. Her parents were James and Marian Pittsford. There were three children by that marriage: Oscar J., who is a merchant of Urbana, Ohio; Jennie, who became the wife of Rev. P. W. Longfellow, a minister of the Baptist church, and died in North Dakota, in 1896; and Phoebe Ann, who became the wife of R. F. Tyler, and died in November, 1896. After losing his first wife Mr. Jones was again married in 1865 to Miss Susan Maria Booth, who was born in Lancaster, Ohio, July 24, 1844, a daughter of Henry M. and Ann (Jones) Booth. They were natives of New York, but were married in Ohio. Mrs. Booth was born May 18, 1818, and was a daughter of David R. and Juan (Thomas) Jones, who were natives of Wales, the former born in 1787 and the latter in 1793. Mr. Jones crossed the Atlantic to New York in 1800, while his future wife arrived in 1801 and their marriage was celebrated in 1810. Both died in Licking county, Ohio. David R. Jones served as a soldier in the war of 1812, being on active duty in northern New York in the vicinity of Sackets Harbor. His eldest son, Thomas D. Jones, was a sculptor and modeled Lincoln’s bust from hfe. He had modeled more busts of presidents up to that time than all other sculptors and he employed two Italian assistants. Mrs. Susan M. Jones has one brother, Henry J. Booth, an attorney of Columbus, of the firm of Booth, Keating & Peters. The father of Mrs. Jones was a son of Susanna Madison, a cousin of President Madison. Unto Edward and Susan M. (Booth) Jones, were born four children: Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wynne, now with her father; Carrie, the wife of Dr. F. O. Williams of Columbus; Annie, at home; and Edna, the wife of B. V. Price, of Union township.
In his political views Mr. Jones has always been a stalwart democrat, supporting the candidates of the party where national questions are involved but casting an independent local ballot. From the age of twenty-one years he has been a member of the Baptist church, to which his wife and children also belong. He has taken a very active and helpful part in church work, serving as one of its deacons for forty-three years, while during this entire period he has endeavored to conform to the teachings of the scriptures, so that his life has ever been honorable and upright in his relations with his fellowmen. Moreover, he is numbered among the pioneer residents of the county, for he has lived within its borders for seventy-six years, during which time all of the evidences of frontier life have been replaced by those of a modern and progressive civilization. No longer does the farmer go out from his log cabin or little frame dwelling into his fields to cut his grain with the scythe and tie it in bundles. The homes are now mostly commodious and substantial dwellings, while invention has given to the farmer splendid machinery until there is comparatively little manual labor, for what was formerly done by hand is now done by machinery. Mr. Jones has kept pace with the progress made in agricultural lines and at all times has rejoiced in what has been accomplished.
As printed in Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County Ohio, vol. II: Biographies (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Evan Jones (b. 1816) R. F. Tyler (b. 1858) Thomas D. Jones Thomas D. Price (b. 1826)
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