... James B. Jones, of the county of Mecklenburg, Va., and Judith Bailey, his wife ...
... [James B Jones] leading, on his country seat, a life of retirement, illustrated the independence of the farmer, and the hospitalities of the Virginia gentleman, in the palmy days in which he lived. With no taste for public station, he was yet a man of mark and influence in his county, and as a delegate from it he rendered service to his state in its legislative halls; and was from an early age, nearly to the close of his life, an active and leading magistrate on the bench of the county court of his county, in its olden dignity and usefulness. He died in 1834, his wife long surviving him to rear their four sons, of which she proved herself as capable as she had been fortunate in making happy his home and life. James B. Jones was the son of Tingnal Jones, of Warwick county, Va., descendant of Matthew Jones, whose mansion now stands in that county, with the inscription of the date 1727.
Tingnal Jones married Martha Anderson, the daughter of Major Thomas Anderson, who removed from Charles City county, Va., to Mecklenburg county, prior to the Revolutionary war. ...
