Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 506-508 [Caldwell]

     WYLIE JONES, the efficient sheriff of Caldwell county, was born
upon a farm in this county on the 20th of October, 1869, and is a
son of Loften and Lucretia (Gray) Jones.  His father was born in
Trigg county, Kentucky, but was reared in Caldwell county, in which
place he met and married Miss Gray, who was born in Caldwell county. 
Her death occurred in 1886, when she was forty-two years of age, and
she left the following children: James D., who died in 1887 when
twenty years of age; Wylie; Icie, the wife of W. H. Burnham, of
Trigg county, Kentucky; Curtis, a resident farmer of Caldwell
county; and Gus, who is living with his father upon the home farm.
     In the usual manner of farmer lads Wylie Jones spent his
boyhood days, attending the public schools and devoting much of his
leisure time to the work of field and meadow.  He continued with his
father until sixteen years of age, at which time he entered upon his
business career as a salesman in a country store owned by Major M.
J. Groom, by whom he was employed for nearly four years.  He then
resumed the occupation to which he had been reared, and continued to
engage in farming with fair success until the 1st of January, 1895,
when he was appointed to the position of deputy sheriff under Major
Groom, his former employer.  When John H. Steven became sheriff Mr.
Jones continued as deputy for four years, making seven years in all
in which he served in that capacity.  In November, 1901, he was
elected sheriff on the Democratic ticket, and is now filing that
position in a most acceptable manner, being prompt and fearless in
the discharge of his duties and standing as a strong protector of
law and order in this community.
     In 1892 Mr. Jones was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Ella
White, a daughter of W. H. White, a resident farmer of Caldwell
county.  Five children have blessed this union: Walter, Eugene,
William Loften, Frank Wylie and Burnard.  In his social relations
Mr. Jones is a Mason and has attained the Royal Arch degree. 
Courteous, genial, well informed, alert and enterprising, he stands
to-day [sic] as one of the leading representative men of his county,
and enjoys in high measure the good will of those who have known him
from his boyhood days down to the present time.

Jones Gray Burnham Groom Steven White
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Trigg-KY

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