Person:George Jones (76)

Research Notes

• United States Senator from Georgia in 1807
• Member of the Georgia State House of Representatives,
• Member of the Georgia State Senate,
• State Court Judge in 1804,
• Mayor of Savannah, Georgia in 1812.

1. ↑ Family Recorded, in Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie. A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family: in connection with the history, genealogy and mention of the families of Clay, Stiles, Cumming, King, Elliott, Milledge, Maxwell, Adams, Houstoun, Screven, Owens, Demere, Footman, Ellis, Washington, Newell, deTreville, Davis, Barrington, Lewis, Warner, Cobb, Flournoy, Pratt, Nephew, Bolton, Bowers, Cuthbert, and many other names either as having a connection to some other family or showing of the name as related or connected to some family in this work. (Columbia, S.C.: The R. L. Bryant Co., 1901)
   p 38.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Family Recorded, in Harden, William. A history of Savannah and south Georgia. (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913)
   Vol 2, p 544.

   ... no fitter expression as to his life and work might be made than is embodied in a set of resolutions adopted at a meeting of the bar of the federal and state courts, at the court house in Savannah, on November 14, 1838, on the day following his death. Here is given entire the resolutions adopted on that sad occasion:
   "Dr. George Jones, a distinguished citizen of Savannah, died November 13, 1838. His career of public service began in early youth. He endured, the last two years of the Revolutionary war, the hardships of a soldier, and manifested, in confinement on board an English prison ship, the fortitude and constancy of a youthful patriot. When the war was concluded, though still a very young man, he received strong proofs of public confidence by being placed in official relations to his fellow citizens, the duties of which required the ability, discretion and industry of matured manhood. He was subsequently one of Georgia's prominent legislators, and in the convention which framed our present constitution, was a leading member as a delegate from Chatham county. He was frequently afterward a member of the general assembly in both branches. Its history shows him to have been pure and disinterested, at all times inflexible in support of correct principles and in opposition to those schemes of personal aggrandizement which were unfortunately corruptly consummated by the alienation of the most valuable portion of the state's territory. The estimation in which his character and attainments were held induced the legislature, though he was not a lawyer, to elect him judge of the superior court for the eastern circuit. His demeanor as a judge was dignified, courteous and patient, and when he voluntarily retired from the appointment it was regretted by the bar, the officers of the court and the public. From the bench he was transferred to the senate of the United States. His services in that capacity being terminated, he was called by the general consent to other stations of usefulness."
   "It was truly said of him that he took office from a sense of obligation rather than from any desire for distinction. He was for many years one of the members of the superior court, and its record showed that he was a faithful administrator of its duties, vigilant in all that regarded the rights of the widow and orphan. He served efficiently as mayor of Savannah for two years, from September, 1812, to September, 1814.["]
   "He was amiable, philanthropic, considerate, firm, forbearing, delicate in his intercourse with society. He had a modesty in speech and manner, at all times and to all persons, worthy of remembrance and imitation, and to these graces were added the belief and humility of a Christian." ...

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.

   [Includes headstone photo.]