Morgan Jones was born in North Wales, in the United Kingdom, September 17, 1811. He married Ann Hughes, who after her husband died came in May, 1852, to America, with her son John Byron Jones, and settled in Lewis County, New York.
John Byron Jones, son of Morgan Jones, was born in North Wales, September 26, 1846. He attended the public schools, and engaged in farming in Lewis County until the beginning of the Civil War. He enlisted in the summer of 1863 in Company F, Fourteenth New York Regiment of Heavy Artillery, which entered the service as infantry... After the war he returned to Lowville and resumed the occupation of farming. He continued until 1880 on the homestead, and then entered the employ of M. W. Van Amber. After four years he resigned. He was for three years with Danet & Pell, at Danetburg. Since then he had been in the employ of J. E. Haberer Furniture Company of Lowville, formerly the firm of Haberer Brothers. He is a member of the Baptist church of Lowville, and of G. D. Bailey Post, No. 200, G. A. R., Department of New York, and he has served as quartermaster for over seventeen years.
He married, December 30, 1869, at Copenhagen, New York, Emma Diana Allen, born November 5, 1851, daughter of Waters Allen (see Allen).
