Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

WILLIAM M. JONES was born in the State of Indiana, County of
Tippecanoe, on July 31, 1826, and came within four miles of where
Ashland now is, in the spring of 1847; has seen, where Ashland
now stands, growing in wild prairie grass, and has seen it also
in a farm, growing grain, and now sees it in a beautiful little
town.  Commenced the practice of law in 1857, was admitted to the
bar as an attorney to practice law by the Supreme Court of the
State, on October 20, 1871; came to the village of Ashland in the
spring of 1870.  Never studied law in attorney's office, except
his own.  Never was in college a day in his life; came here as
soon as he was discharged from the Mexican war at Newport
Barracks, Kentucky, and was mustered out at New Orleans.  He also
served in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion.  He
was a private in Co. D, 26th Ill. Infantry, and was mustered out
at Louisville, Kentucky, and discharged at Springfield, Illinois.
He was wounded in Mexico, and carried the bullet for thirty-six
years, and then had it taken out, and yet he has received no
pension, for he has never asked Uncle Sam for any help.

Jones
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Tippecanoe-IN KY Mexico