Henry Clay Jones

    Henry Clay Jones, of Madison, Indiana, is the son of Joshua E. and Rachel (Coons) Jones, natives of Ross and Hamilton Counties, Ohio. He was born September 26, 1837, in Cincinnati. When he was only two years of age his mother moved to Jeffersonville, Indiana, his father having died previous to this time; there she remained for about two years, and moved to Madison, Indiana, in 1841.

    Mr. Jones afterward went back to Jeffersonville, to his grandfather Coons, and attended school. In 1858, he engaged in the grain and produce business in Madison, Indiana, in which he continued till 1866. At this time he engaged ins team and flat-boating in New Orleans and up the Kentucky River, and followed this business up to 1876, since which time he has been engaged in the log and lumber business. He has furnished large lots of lumber for the Government work upon the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers. He, with Mr. Wm. Kirk, took the contact and built the rising Sun Dike, and he was one of the contractors to furnish the lumber for Dam No. 1, on the Kentucky River, and for the Portland Dike at Louisville, Kentucky. Is now in sawmill at Madison, Indiana.

    Mr. Jones was married on December 18, 1859, to Miss Margaret Bishop, and has three living children: Elmer, G., Richard J. and Ruth P. His Grandmother Jones lived to the very old age of 97 years, died near Chillicothe, Ohio. His mother died in Madison in 1871, at 63 years.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.