LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Columbus W. Jones Taught School

COLUMBUS W. JONES, Muhlenberg County, was born September 25, 1883, in Coffee
County, TN, and is the 8th of five boys and three girls of Sherred and
Margaret (Carr) Jones, natives of North Carolina.  The father was a son of
John Jones who married Mary Osburn, both natives of North Carolina, and of
English descent; they immigrated to Tennessee in 1851; to Muhlenberg County in
1854.  Columbus W. was reared on a farm and received a common school
education.  After twenty years of age he attended five sessions at South
Carrollton Institute; and taught four terms.  In 1882 he engaged as salesman
in Madisonville for one year.  In April, with Evitts, he opened a general
store at Central City, where he is now engaged; he has made life a success by
his own efforts.

Jones Carr Evitts
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Coffee-TN NC

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