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riding horse. They formed a partnership, joined their riding horses in a team and went to work ; how successfully is proved by the land records of Shenandoah and Page counties, where tract after tract of land is shown passing in title to him. As a business man he became a power in his part of the State, but he retained his youthful love of good horses and good clothes to the end of his long life. He died April 24. 1829, at his home. Cedar Point, honored and loved by all who knew him.

Mr. Jones' father, W'hartnn Jones, was also a man of substantial estate, apart from the separate property of his wife, the daughter of Benjamin Wood. As a prosperous landed proprietor, he was a leader in his commun- ity, being called upon constantly as adviser in business affairs of importance and to serve as guardian and administrator for kindred, friends and neighbors. For a number of years he sat as justice under the old county court system. He died after a short illness, on the 23rd of October, 1836, when but little more than fifty years of age, leaving his wife a widow at thirty-seven, with eleven children, one unborn. They had been mar- ried less than twenty years before, on the 17th of January, 181 7. at Cedar Point. She died December 18, 1867, having survived him thirty-one years. Their children were as follows, all born at Pleasant \'iew. the home he built for her. and in which they lived all of their married life :

I. William Follis Jones, born November 17, 1817, married Catherine Price, of Page county, September 5. 1837, moved to Mis- souri, and died there September 12, 1857. There were ten children of this marriage : Cordelia Ann, married Galen Crow, of Aus- tin, Texas ; Emma, married George Rigdon ; Minerva, died in childhood; Martha, mar- ried William Aloore ; .\lice, married Robert Stockstill ; William Price, IsaacEdgar, Peter Lee ; Thomas Wood and George Herbert, all of whom made their homes in states west of the Mississippi. 2. Isaac Springer Jones, born January 23, 1819, settled in Missouri, and there married Anne Eliza Byrd, January 19. 1854. and died April 29, 1873, leaving eight children : Margaret, Edgar, Byrd. Xannie. George Lee, Mary- Ann, Martha and Isaac, all of whom made their homes in states west of the Missis- sippi. 3. Thomas Wood Jones, born Octo- ber 15, 1820, died unmarried, January 22,

1837. 4. Sarah Catherine Jones, born May 22, 1822, married Reuben Pendleton Bell, of the Rappahannock county family of that name. May 19, 1842, and died September 27, 1901, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. McKay, in Augusta county. There were seven children of this marriage : Erasmus Lee Bell, of Lynchburg, \'irginia, married Barbara, daughter of Colonel Mann Spitler, of Whitehall, Page county ; Martha Vir- ginia, married Dr. W'illiam E. Pitman, of Page county, both now dead ; Florence Ann, widow of George Buswell, of Indiana ; Mary Ella, wife of Charles E. Biedler, of Luray, Page county ; Sarah Elizabeth, wife of Antram McKay, of Augusta county, Vir- ginia ; Solon Lycurgus Bell, married Mat- tie Jones, and lives at his father's old home, "Bellvue," in Page county ; Nancy Wharton Bell, died in girlhood. 5. George Alorgan Jones, the subject of this sketch, was twelve years old when his father died. 6. Benjamin Franklin Jones, born June 26, 1826, died unmarried September 19' 1857. 7. Harrison Booton Jones, born July zj, 1828, married Laura Asenath Star- buck, of Nantucket and Massachusetts an- cestry, June 9, 1858, and died in Lynchburg, August 24, 1897. The children of this mar- riage were : Margaret Lee Jones, who died in early girlhood ; Anna Laura Jones, of Lynchburg; Mary Elizabeth, wife of John Ilurt Whitehead, of Chatham, Virginia ; and Sarah Starbuck, wife of Leon Alarley Jones, of Portsmouth, Virginia. 8. David Whar- ton Jones, born August 3, 1830, married Cyn- thia Anne Plummer, June 8, 1859, died June 24, 1884. in Austin, Texas. His children were : Mary Nancy Jones, of Austin, Texas ; David Galen Jones, of Texas ; Lula Ada, wife of Dr. John William Blattner, super- intendent of the state institution for deaf and dumb of North Dakota ; and Thomas, died in childhood. 9. Margaret Elizabeth Jones, born September 27, 1832; married December 26, 1889, John H. Newell ; died June 24. 1901. 10. Mary Ann Jones, born May S, 1834, married Ambrose Booton Shenk, March 23, 1854, died September 27, 1898, in Lynchburg. Her husband was kill- ed at the battle of Kearnstown, March 23, 1863, while serving as captain of Company H, of the Thirty-third Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade. Their children were: Ambrose Lee Shenk, of Lynchburg, married Alice Spitler, sister of Mrs. E. Lee Bell (see