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 = Trigg-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/caldwell/jones.w.txt