... On June 30, 1858, in Mobile, Ala., he married Mary Henry, daughter of James G. and Lavinia C. Lyon, of that city, and a niece of the late Francis Strother Lyon, a distinguished citizen of Alabama, of which he was a representative in the congress of the United States before that state seceded, and afterward in the congress of the Confederate States; but who was perhaps most distinguished as manager of the finances of the state of Alabama during its trouble in the forties. For nearly twenty-eight years this lovely woman adorned his house and charmed his life. She died March 30, 1886, leaving an only child, Mary Morris Jones, who survives to cheer the evening of his days, inheriting the sweetness of her mother's nature, and her active benevolence and charities.
