Jones Cemetery

By the 1840’s, a group of local Methodists were

meeting nearby in Jones School. Desiring a permanent

place of worship, the congregation built a

church in 1857

at a site one-half mile west of here. In 1861,

Jacob Jones and his ...

Jones Cemetery / General James Jones

[Front]

This is the family cemetery of Mathias Jones (1779-1829), planter, merchant, and state representative 1814-17. Jones moved from Virginia to Ridge Spring, in what was then Edgefield District, about 1800. He, his wife Clara Perry Jones (1786-1841), and 4 of ...

Merritt Jones/Wayside Tavern / Jones Tavern/CSA Cemetery

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A log tavern down this lane was by 1830s an overnight stop on the Old State Road from Cumberland Gap to Lexington. The older half of building dates back to ca. 1800. During Civil War, Jones Tavern was alternately ...