California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


JONES, C. W. Was born in Carroll County, Arkansas, April 26, 1840. In 1857 he, with his parents, crossed 
the plains with ox-teams, and arrived in Stanislaus County in October of the last mentioned year. Here 
they spent one year farming, and then moved to Sutter County, and after spending one winter they 
moved to Plumas County. After a residence here of about seven years the subject of this sketch came 
to Lake County and settled in Scotts Valley, where he has since resided, being engaged in farming. He 
settled on his present place, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, in October, 1868. Mr. Jones 
married, October 24, 1867, Miss Narcissus A. McCabe, a native of Texas. They have four living children 
Mary C, Charles W., James H. and Herbert M.; and have lost three: Thomas C, Walter M. and Annie B.