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Jones of Morgantown, W. Va. Prof. Jones is the family historian and authority for most of the foregoing facts concerning the Jones family.

Peter and Rebecca Jones Current.

Peter Current, son of James and Margaret Johnson Current, was born in Monongahela coun- ty, Va., January 27, 1797. He married Rebecca Jones Feb. 6, 1817. She was born in the same county July 4, 1797. Her father was Samuel Jones son of Jacob and Dinah Jones. With the teach- ing and example of such parents Peter and Re- becca Current, made their start in the Christian life and they had daily worship in their home. After going to Indiana there was no church near them and they opened their home for religious meetings and for a few years it was the place for the regular class, prayer meetings and preaching services for the Methodists and each of the nine children were converted, married Christians and erected family altars.

In 1833 Peter with his brother James, then un- married, and sister, Nellie Jones, severed the ten- der ties that bound them to the place of their