Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society. C. F. JONES. Among the railroad agents of the Q. & C., in Grant County, C. F. Jones, of Blanchett, stands at the forefront. He is a product of Grant County, having been born at Corinth, August 28, 1867. He is a son of Henry and Willie Jane Jones and was educated at the Corinth Academy, and worked during his boyhood with his father at the blacksmith trade. July 3, 1888, he was married to Miss Francis Powell. Five children were born to this union, two of whom are still living, Harry Carlton, aged 11, and Mary Cecil May, aged 8. His first wife died Jun 12, 1894, and he was again married on August 7, 1895, to Mrs. Lizzie Booth. One child, a boy of 4, named Leo, is the result of his union. There are altogether four living children in this family, there being one by her first husband, a boy named Harry Booth, aged 14. Charley Jones learned telegraphy in 1889, with C. B. Skeggs as his tutor. He secured a position with the C.N.O.T.P.R.R., February 14, 1889, and worked at various places on the road until November, 1894, when he was transferred to the mechanical department and fired on a locomotive until December, 1895, when he was appointed agent at Donerail, Ky., and transferred to Blanchett, August 1, 1898, which position he has held since. He has never been suspended for a day since beginning work on the road. Charley Jones is of an inventive turn of mind. He has secured several patents on useful articles, mainly railroad facilities, for which he has realized considerable remuneration. He is industrious, and when off duty, always working at some invention or idea. He will no doubt be heard from in the patent world some day as an inventor of much repute. Jones Powell Booth Skeggs = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/grant/jones.cf.txt