Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin,
2nd ed., 1885, Hopkins Co.

REV. SOLOMON W. JONES was born in Granville County, N. C., and is 
the eldest of five living children born to Henry W. and Sarah 
(Parker) Jones, both natives of Granville County, N. C., and of 
English descent.  Henry W. Jones was educated and married in his 
native county, where he was all his life extensively engaged in 
planting.  He enlisted near the close of the war of 1812, and was 
taken to Norfolk, Va., but saw no active service.  He was for many 
years a magistrate in his native county.  He died in the early 
part of 1874, in his seventy-sixth year.  Solomon W. was employed 
on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years old.  His 
father then deeded him a small farm near the old homestead, where 
he engaged in farming until the fall of 1840, when he came to 
Hopkins County, Ky., and bought wild land four miles west of 
Madisonville.  Here he commenced to improve a farm; after one year 
he sold the place and bought a partially improved farm near Hanson 
in the same county, where he engaged in farming and stock raising 
until 1877.  He then sold the farm and moved to Madisonville, 
where he owns a handsome residence in the suburbs of the city, 
where he has since lived a retired life.  He was married December 
19, 1838, to Miss, Mary B. Gooch, a native of Granville County, 
N. C. Seven children blessed their union; five sons and one 
daughter are yet living.  Mr. Jones and wife are devoted members 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, he having been a member 
of that church for more than forty years, and a minister in the 
same for some thirty-five years.  In politics he is a Democrat.

Jones Parker Gooch
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Granville-NC VA 

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