History, VA, Caroline, Churchill Jones

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JONES, CHURCHILL (1805–1869). CHURCHILL JONES, early settler and landowner,
was born on January 25, 1805, in Caroline County, Virginia, the son of JOHN
and MARY (SANFORD) JONES. He graduated from Rappahannock Academy and settled
in Evergreen, Alabama, as a planter. In the late 1820s he married SUSAN
TOMLINSON; they had eight children. Jones taught school for a time and was
elected to the Alabama legislature as a Whig. In 1849 he made a trip to Texas
and purchased a large tract of land in Falls County. When the title was
cleared, he sent a nephew to Texas to oversee the property until he arrived
with his family in 1853. Jones settled near old Viesca on Rush Springs
(renamed Jones Springs). He opposed secession but supported the Confederacy
and was disfranchised after the Civil War; he applied to President Andrew
Johnson for a pardon. Jones died in Falls County on October 25, 1869, and was
buried in the family cemetery. At the time of his death he was said to have
owned 50,000 acres.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Falls County Historical Commission, Families of Falls County (Austin: Eakin
Press, 1987). A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell,
and Coryell Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1893; rpt., St. Louis: Ingmire, 1984).
Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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