Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Campbell Co.

HON. THOMAS LAURENS JONES was born in Rutherford County, N. C., on the
21st of January, 1819.  His grandfather, George Jones was a native of 
Maryland; he was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and was at the 
siege of Yorktown when Lord Cornwallis surrendered.  After the 
Revolution he moved to Orange County, Va., and subsequently the family 
immigrated to North Carolina.  George, the second son, settled at 
Asheville, N. C. and there married Miss Elizabeth Mills, a daughter of 
Maj. William Mills, who was one of the earliest pioneers to that part 
of the country.  Mr. Jones moved from there to South Carolina, and was 
a prosperous merchant in Spartanburg, where his fifth son, the subject 
of this sketch, was born.  The early education of Thomas Laurens Jones 
was received at the best schools of the town, and at the District 
Academy of Spartanburg.  In 1839 he entered the College of Nassua Hall,
at Princeton, N. J., and graduated in 1840.  He next went to Harvard 
Law School at Cambridge, Mass., in 1842, and graduated in 1843. 
After traveling nearly two years in Europe, he went to Charleston, S.
C., and reviewed his law studies with the distinguished lawyer, James L.
Pettigrew, and in May, 1846, he was examined and admitted to the bar at
Columbia, S. C.  In 1848 he was married to Miss Mary Keturah Taylor. a
daughter of Col. James Taylor, and a granddaughter of Gen. James Taylor,
and also of the Hon. William T. Barry of Kentucky.  In 1849 Mr. Jones
left South Carolina to make his permanent home in Kentucky, and settled 
in Campbell County, near Newport.  In politics he was a Democrat, and
represented the county in the Legislature in 1853 and 1854.  When the
civil war began he was opposed to succession.  He was, however, arrested
as a Southern sympathizer, and in July, 1862, was placed in prison at
Newport Barracks for a short time, and was sent with many prominent
citizens to Camp Chase, Ohio.  He was kept a prisoner over three months,
and was finally released on parole, and thus continued to the end of the
war.  Mr. Jones was a member of the XL, XLI and XLIV Congresses from the
Sixth District of Kentucky.  He was a presidential elector for the State
at large in 1880, and canvassed the State for Hancock and English.  He
was also a delegate from the State at large to the convention at
Chicago, in 1884, which nominated Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. 
Hendricks for President and Vice-President.  In religion Mr. Jones was 
a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, but not prejudiced in his 
views.  He died July 20, of this year, 1887, at his residence near 
Newport.  His wife survives him, as do also three children.  His sons 
are James Taylor and Laurens, and his daughter, Elizabeth Mills, is the
wife of Mr. Brent Arnold, the general agent of the Louisville & 
Nashville Railroad. [See sketch of Mrs. Gen. James Taylor.]

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