Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and used with permission of Fred Smoot ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== The Goodspeed Publishing Company, History of Tennessee, 1887 Dr. W. E. JONES was born on April 22, 1832, in Franklin County, Ga., and was educated at Dahlonega, Lumpkin Co., Ga. He began the study of medicine in 1852, and in 1860 completed a course at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and received his diploma. He had practiced from 1854, in Georgia, as a local physician, but after this he turned his attention, and practiced a specialty in chronic diseases, and has had very wide patronage in Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Kentucky, and with marked success. He is one of the leading citizens of Kingsport. He is the son of BARTLETT and DICEY JONES, who were the son and daughter of TIGNAL JONES and WILLIAM MANGUM, the former an Englishman and the latter of Dutch descent. TIGNAL JONES was a sol- dier in the Revolutionary war, and after the establishment of peace was a farmer, and lived in Virginia for several years; then moved to North Carolina, and finally to Georgia. He had only one son and one daughter. The father was born in North Carolina in 1817, and the mother in 1815. He was by occupation a school teacher, and, for a few years of the latter part of his life, was a gold miner in Georgia, County of Lumpkin. He raised five sons and four daughters, and died in 1863, and the mother in 1864. Our subject married SARAH LOGAN in 1850, and has three sons and four daughters. She was born in Hall County, Ga. in 1831. The entire family are members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and are most exemplary and excellent people. ===========================================================================