OBED KING JONES, Sec. 1; P. O. Platteville; born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan. 17, 1833; son of Chauncy and Elizabeth (Brown) Jones; has 240 acres of which or part of which his father settled in 1840. His wife was Miss Susie, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Janney, of Washington Co., Mo.; they have two children - Nellie and Frank. Mr. Jones has two children - De Forrest and Lottie, by a former marriage. He is a Republican, and belongs to the M. E. Church. In the spring of 1877, he began the manufacture of cheese, and, in the spring of 1880, built the only cheese factory in his town. Chauncy Jones came from Hancock Co., Ill., to Harrison in the summer of 1837; he was accompanied by a cousin, Obed King, and they built a small log cabin near where O. S. Jones now lives. Mr. Jones was by trade a stone-mason, and was one of the workmen on the old Platteville M. E. Church. Mr. King settled permanently in the town in the fall of 1873, and Mr. Jones in March, 1840; Chauncy Jones, Sr., grandfather of O. S. and O. K., came in 1839, and located on Sec. 12, in Harrison. Mr. King met a tragic death in June, 1840, being killed by the falling of a tub full of rocks while in the bottom of an unfinished well. O. S. Jones was Chairman of Harrison in 1879; was Town Superintendent of Schools many years, and is an old-time teacher in the town.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.