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JONES, J. W. Was born in Missouri February 27, 1836. When but a child his parents moved to Arkansas. In 1856
the subject of this sketch crossed the plains to California. He spent the first seven years of his California life
in Plumas County, following different occupations. We next find him in Marysville, Yuba County, where he remained
but a sohrt time. He next went to San Joaquin Valley, where he spent one year, and then returned to Marysville
and spent two years, and again returned to Plumas County, where he spent about six months, and then came to Lake
County in the fall of 1867. Here he remained a short time and returned to Plumbs County, and in 1868 again returned
to Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, located about three
miles from Upper Lake, on the Bartlett Springs road. Mr. Jones married, in 1867, Miss Mary E. McCabe, by whom he
has seven living children: William, Edward, Franklin, Lucinda, Catherine, Phillip and Zeno; and have lost one:
Aaron.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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