California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 JOHN W. JONES. � There is a picturesque bit of country in the Bartlett Springs precinct, in the northern part of Lake county, known as Twin valleys, so called because it consists practically of two small valleys of about equal area separated by a low range. About all the good farming land in both sec- tions is owned by John W. Jones, who has lived there since 1907. He has ac- quired valuable interests in agriculture and stock, and is engaged to some extent in dairying, supplying Bartlett Springs and other nearby resorts with choice milk. Mr. Jones belongs to a pioneer family of Lake county, being a son of the late John W. Jones, who came to California in young manhood, in 1856, and to Upper Lake about 1866. He was born in 1836 in Pulaski county. Mo., and died in June, 1911, on the old Jones homestead, in his seventy-sixth year. When he came to this state he first settled in Plumas county, where he engaged in teaming, also doing business as a stock buyer. Buying cattle in Lake and Mendocino counties, he would drive them over to Colusa county, and thus he became familiar with this region. In 1866 he settled in Lake county, and here engaged in ranching throughout his active years in what is now the Clover precinct, becoming one of the well-to-do men of that section. In 1867 he married Miss Mary E. McCabe, who was born in Josephine county, Mo., and is still living on the old Jones homestead. Nine children were born to this union : John W. ; Edward, who died unmarried, when twenty-two years old ; Franklin, who died when twenty years old ; Lucinda, who died at the age of thirty-two years, unmarried ; Andrew and A. Zeno, both of whom are stockmen in Burns valley. Lake county ; Catherine, wife of A. A. Pluth, and living with her mother at the old Jones homestead ; Aaron, who died in infancy ; and Narcissa, who died when seventeen years old. John W. Jones, Jr., was born June 20, 1869, on the old homestead in What is now the Clover precinct, and received his education in the public schools of the locality. He has always followed agricultural work, and when he com- menced ranching on his own account he rented land in the Upper Lake country, in 1897, remaining there until 1907. Then he bought his present place, which lies about five miles northwest of Bartlett Springs, his first purchase being the Mrs. Clark tract of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he subsequently added three hundred and sixty acres which he bought from Mrs. Ford. On this place he has eighty head of stock cattle, and consid- erable poultry, and during the resort season he keeps seventeen milk cows. Physically Mr. Jones is well fitted for his chosen calling, being tall and broad shouldered, and his industry has won him universal respect, while his optim- istic disposition and dry humor have won him friendly welcome in many cir- cles. He has kept out of active association with public affairs, his growing interests occupying all his time. His success has been creditable from every standpoint. Politically he votes with the Democratic party. On December 15, 1897, Mr. Jones married Miss Keziah T. Williams, of Stonington, Ill. They have had two children, Lester and Thyra. Mrs. Jones's religious connection is with the Baptist Church.