Lyman Jones

As printed in 1906

YMAN JONES, whose well-cultivated farm of 212 acres is located four miles from Circleville, on the Circleville and Kingston turnpike, is descended from two old pioneer families of Virginia and Pennsylvania, which had much to do with the early development of Ross County, Ohio. Mr. Jones was born in Salt Creek. township, Pickaway County, Ohio, January 28, 1841, and is a son of Abel and Catherine (Dreisbach) Jones.

Both parents of Lyman Jones were natives of Ross County, Ohio, where the father was born October 31, 1810, and the mother, in 1814. About 1838-39 they moved to Salt Creek township, Pickaway County, and then, in 1864, to Pickaway township, settling on the farm now occupied by our subject. Here Abel Jones died January 6, 1892, having survived his wife, who died in April, 1887. He was a stanch supporter of the Republican party and was a man of sterling integrity of character and broad-minded views. Of his children these survive: Sarah A. and Rebecca, who live with their brother Lyman; Leah, wife of P. YV. Brown, of Chillicothe; Mary E., wife of George Bennett, of Circleville; Alda, wife of Taylor Boggs, of Chillicothe; Laura J., wife of Harry R. Gregg, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Lyman, of this sketch.

Lyman Jones, after completing the public school course in Salt Creek township, became a student at the Ohio University, at Athens, this training better preparing him for the intelligent management of the large estate he now owns.

Mr. Jones has always been affiliated with the Republican party. He is a type of a good citizen, enterprising and public spirited and enjoys the esteem, as he commands the respect, of a wide circle of acquaintances.

As printed in History of Pickaway County, Ohio and Representative Citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.