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Source: Memoirs of Georgia Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People. Vol. 2. Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Historical Association, 1895. pp. 690. Contributed by Lori Thornton.

A. R. JONES, physician and surgeon, Lavonia, Franklin Co., Ga., son of Charles A. and Sarah N. (Aderhold) Jones, was born in Gordon county, Ga., in 1859. His paternal grandfather was a native of Floyd county. His father was born in what is now Gordon county, and was a well-to-do farmer. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate service, and was taken sick at Calhoun, where he died. Dr. Jones' mother was the daughter of Isaac Aderhold. Dr. Jones was reared on the farm and received a very limited education. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Drs. Osborn and Tucker, and afterward attended lectures at the Southern Medical college, Atlanta, from which he graduated in 1882. He earned teh money with which to defray the expenses of his professional education. He at once located near Lavonia, and after practicing there with excellent success five years moved to Lavonia, where he has practicied for the last eight years, had all the patronage he could reasonably serve, and has enjoyed professional and financial prosperity. He owns and operates a quite larger farm and conducts a general merchandise store and canning establishment. He is not only skilled as a physician, but is generally enterprising and possesses fine business qualifications. Dr. Jones was married in 1884 to Miss Mary M., born in Gwinnett county, Ga., in 1866, daughter of Jessee and Mary M. (Caldwell) McGee. He was a native of South Carolina, was a farmer, moved to Georgia and settled in Gwinnett county, where he died. He was a Confederate soldier during the war. Two of the children born to them—William O. and Charles D.—are still living. The mother of these, a devout member of the Presbyterian church, died in 1891. The following year he married Miss Gertrude, born in Hart county in 1874, daughter of Pruett and Eliza (Holbrook) Gulley. He was born in what is now Hart county, and served in the Confederate army during the late civil war. He has been a merchant, but is now a farmer in his native county. Dr. Jones is a member of the masonic fraternity and of the Presbyterian church.

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