History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 474.
[Bourbon County]  [Paris City and Precinct]

THOMAS JONES, retired farmer: P. O. Paris; one among the oldest citizens
now living in Bourbon County; is Uncle Thomas Jones, who has lived under
every administration; from Washington down to the present; he was born
Jan. 19, 1792, on Baughman's Creek, near Athens, in Fayette County, this
State; his father was James Jones, who was born about the year 1758, in
Spottsylvania [sic] County, Va., son of Thomas Jones, a Virginian; James
Jones was a Revolutionary soldier, also his brother, William, who was
present at the surrender of Cornwallis; he emigrated to Kentucky, locating
in Fayette County, in 1789; his wife was Sallie Schooler, also a native of
the Old Dominion; she had three brothers, who served in the Continental
army, viz: Horton, Benjamin and William; the father of our subject was a
farmer and raised a family of ten children--eleven being born; the
educational advantages afforded with his father for a time, then
volunteered as a soldier in the war of 1812, and was a member of Colonel
Johnson's regiment of cavalry, and was at the battle of Thames, after
which he was discharged and returned home; January 11, 1814, he was married
in North Middletown, to Patsey Ashurst, who was born in 1787, in that
precinct; she was a daughter of Josiah and Rebecca (Kennedy) Ashurst; he
was a native of Georgia; Mr. Jones came to Bourbon County with his father
in 1800; after the marriage of our subject, he located upon a piece of
land, which he had leased near Thomas Station in Clintonville Precinct; he
had but little to commence with, his entire property amounting to about
$300; he began with his naked hands in the words to make his start, and
from this small beginning, he after years of hard toil; accumulated about
1100 acres of choice land; being a man of iron constitution, of
indomitable perseverance and a tireless worker, he made a success at last,
and accumulated a handsome property; he gave his attention strictly to
farming pursuits; in 1833, he began raising some thoroughbred cattle, of
the short horn class, which he continued in a moderate way, until he
abandoned farming and retired, and removed to Paris during the war, where
he has since resided; his wife died, leaving six children, viz: Josiah A.,
John I., Rebecca K., Sarah D., Thomas D., and Perlina A.--but three now
living: Rebecca, now Mrs. Hildreth; Thomas D., and John I.; Thomas resides
in Tennessee; his present wife was Lucy A. Monday, a native of Madison
County, a daughter of Edmond and Mollie Monday, both natives of Kentucky;
he of Madison, she of Clark county; by last wife has one child, Lillie;
he has been a member of the church over sixty years; in 1819, joined the
Old Baptist Church; later he joined the Reformed, and now stands like a
shock of corn, fully ripe and fit for his Master's use.

Jones Schooler Kennedy Ashurst Hildreth Monday
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Fayette-KY Madison-KY Clark-KY Spotsylvania-VA TN

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