STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 108
At Coal Hollow, eight miles southeast of Winchester, engaged in the business of mining coal, merchandising and farming, lives Jackson Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones. He is a native of Scott county. He was born on the farm now owned by J. C. McDonald, March 4, 1836. Almost from childhood he was a hustler, and the knowing ones used to significantly refer to him as the "industrious lad." He lived in his home neighborhood, grew to be a young man, was educated and married there. The date of his marriage is October 13, 1856, and the lady of his choice, Miss Hannah Hodgkinson. Mr. Jones' father came to Illinois in 1829 and settled in what is now Scott county.
After his marriage Mr. and Mrs. Jones took up their abode in Greene county, and lived there for about three years, and then returned to Scott county, Coal Hollow, where they have since resided.
Jackson Jones and wife are the parents of ten children. Their names, in the order of their birth, are as follows: William Henry, who lives near Manchester; George R., Mrs. Anna Maria Frost, wife of Robert Frost; Andrew J., Charles P., Mrs. Mary Chance, wife of Matthew Chance; Mrs. Sadie Rhodes, wife of John Rhodes; Mrs. Fannie Sellers, wife of Thomas Sellers, James and David. David died in infancy.
Everybody, pretty nearly, between Winchester and Manchester enjoys a personal acquaintance with Uncle Jack Jones. They all know him and they like him, for it is known that his warm, generous heart beats in unison with the great heart of humanity and that his life is attuned to the hopes, the fears, the joys, the sorrows of his fellow mortals. He has lived in that vicinity - in fact where he is now living - from almost "a time when the memory of man goeth not to the contrary," and on more than one occasion has been a father to the fatherless and a friend to the friendless. He owns a coal mine out there, keeps store and conducts a farm. In all these undertakings he is meeting with success and is the dominant factor in the little world that revolves around Coal Hollow. Uncle Jack Jones is known for miles by reason of his charity, his benevolence and his kindness.
To the real history of Scott county he has added much. He has been a familiar figure in that part of the county for years and his dealings with the people have been of such nature as to redound to his credit as a gentleman. He is public spirited and liberal; has labored in season and out of season for the good of his home and his country and has witnessed the result of much of his labor. Politically he is a democrat. Socially he is a pleasant gentleman, endowed with lots of good chimney-corner sense and a nature filled with the milk of human kindness. Such men are the salt of the earth, and no country on the face of the globe can have too many of them.