Biography of Charles O. Jones, pages 8 / 9.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford ... [et al], The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago and 
New York, 1920.


Charles O. Jones has been a member of the farming community of Millgrove 
Township for over thirty years, and his own work and interests have 
supplemented the record of a family that through its different branches 
have been a part of Steuben County history since earliest times.

Mr. Jones was born in Franklin Township of DeKalb County, Indiana, 
September 21, 1861, and has lived in Steuben County since early childhood. 
His father, Hiram S. Jones, was born in Vermont in January,1834, a son of 
Samuel and Jerusha Jones. In I843 the Jones family came to DeKalb County, 
Indiana. Samuel Jones spent the rest of his life there as a farmer. His 
children, included Julius, Sidney, Henry, Miller, William, Sarah, Hattie 
and two that died in infancy.

Hiram S. Jones had an eventful experience in California during six years 
of his early manhood. October 21, 1860, he married Nancy J. Clark, who was 
born at Lockport, New York, in 1836,a daugh-ter of Isaac and Jane M. Clark, 
natives of New York, who moved to Fulton County, Ohio, in 1857, in 1860 to 
DeKalb County, Indiana, and two years later to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Isaac 
Clark also spent some time in Steuben County. His children were named 
Nancy, William, Alice, Mary and James.

Hiram S. Jones farmed for a number of years in DeKalb County, also lived 
on the Clark farm in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, and in 1872 bought back 
his old homestead in Jackson Township of Steuben County. He died while 
attending the County Fair on October 18,1877. He and his wife had five 
children: Charles O., Frank B., Fred A., and Lillie and Leila, twins. The 
mother of these children was married in 1884 to Almon W. Thorpe.

Charles O. Jones acquired most of his education at Orland, also attended 
school at Flint, and in 1889 began farming his present place in Millgrove 
Town-ship. He has specialized in thoroughbred stock, breeding Poland China 
hogs of the big type and also Shropshire sheep. His farm comprises seventy 
acres situated in sections 33 and 28. Mr. Jones is a member of the Masonic 
Lodge at Orland.

November 27, 1883, he married Myrtia Turner, a daughter of William and 
Susan Turner. Her father was born in Connecticut in 1831 and her mother in 
Steuben County in 1839. Her mother was a Salisbury. Both the Turner and 
Salisbury fami-lies figure prominently in the history of Steuben County, 
as noted on other pages. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had four children: Murl, wife 
of Joseph Moffett and the mother of Helen and Florence; Urban, who married 
Vera Waters and has a daugh-ter, Martha; Bruce, who married May Nash; and 
Beulah, who was a trained nurse and died in a Chicago hospital.


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