Selected Families and Individuals

Notes


CLARK

1.  This son fell @ Seven Pines.


CLARK

1.  This son fell @ Seven Pines.


Capt. Francis Iredell JONES "I"

1.  Iredell Jones entered the Confederate Army as private in Washington Light Infantry in June 1861, and was wounded at first battle of Manassas.  
  
2.  Iredell Jones was Second Lieutenant South Carolina College Company, and was at the surrender of Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861.

3.  He was First Lieutenant and commanded a section of a battery in Fort Sumter, doing gallant service in the fight with monitors in April 1861, and all engagements around Charleston.

4.  He served from Fort Sumter to Bentonville - the first and last battles of war.

5.  In 1870 he was Intendant of Rock Hill.   

6.  In 1880 he was a member of the South Carolina Legislature.

7.  He was engaged in farming at his home in Rock Hill, where he was President of the Board of Trustees for that school district, and Regent of South Carolina Hospital for the insane.


Capt. Cadwallader JONES "IV"

1.  Cadwallader Jones joined the Washington Light Infantry, June 1861, at Richmond, Virginia.

2.  He was transferred to Twelfth South Carolina Regiment where he rose to rank of Captain of Company "H".

3.  He shared the fortunes of this gallant and renowned command through twenty seven hard fought battles of the war with marked distinction for cool bravery.

4.  He was wounded once in battles around Petersburg.

5.  He moved to Greensboro, Alabama.


Capt. Allen JONES "Sr"

1.  Allen Jones enlisted as a private in the Confederate War at the age of 16, Company "H", Twelfth South Carolina Regiment;  was afterwards in several important battles in Virginia, one of which he was wounded.  

2.  He moved to Rock Hill in 1888.

3.  He became Secretary and Treasurer of the Lexingvton Manufacturing Company and of Saxe Gotha Mills;  President and Treasurer of the Palmetto ills, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Carolina Land and Investment Company.


Marion Porcher JONES

1.  The sweetest flower that ever bloomed along the waters of old Catawba;  the town with one voice named it first fire engine "Marion Jones" in her honor.