The Fayette Journal from Fayetteville, West Virginia • Page 49

48 THE FAYETTE JOURNAL. November 2,1911 THE JONES FAMILY The late Charles Tandy 'Jones of Oak Hill, W. and his brother, George W. Jones, of Red Star, W. have been identified with much of the industrial development of Fayette County for the past thirty years and more, and any narrative of the county's progress would be incomplete without some mention of them and their activities.

Va. He married May L. Rice of Milton, Cabel County, W. Va. They had two children, George Milton and Herbert Erskine.

Mr. Jones was one of the niost substantial citizens of the county. He was engaged i mercantile business at Oak Hill and other places in the county during his business career; he bought in any movement for the betterment facilities. Last winter when the proposition of relocating the Concord Normal school was he offered ten thousand dollars and a free sixty- five acre tract'as an inducement to locate the school at his home town, Oak Hill. The large concourse of distinguished persons THE JONES RESIDENCE (Unfinished as it appears today) Their father, Llewellen Wills Jones, came to Fayette County from Amhurst County, in 1849, locating at Medow Fork.

He was marired to Martha Jane Massie in 1840. They had nine, children, three boys and six girls, of whom the late Charles Tandy Jones was the oldest son. Llewellen Jones' father, Tandy Jones, of Am- Inirst, 'married Sallie Thurmond, daughter of William Thurmond, also of Amhurst. Tandy Jones fought in the war of 1812 and his father, Captain Porter Jones, fought under Washington in the Revolutionary war. Captain Porter Jones was of Welsh descent, though his father lived at Edenburg, Scotland, before he moved to Virginia.

The late Charles Tandy Jones was born.Novem- ber 15, 1849, at Meadow Fork, Fayette County, W. and sold coal lands and real estate; and with his brother, George W. Jones, developed a large mining operations at Red Star. In these ventures he was successful and had amassed a large estate at the time of his death. He was essentially a man of large affairs and though he was sometimes dar- i i his business ventures, he was always regarded as conservative and calculating.

At the time of his death he was the Star Coal and Coke Company of Red Star, W. president of the Merchants' and Miners' Bank of Oak Hill, W. besides being interested in numerous other business enterprises. In religion he was a Baptist; fraternally, a Shriner Mason, and in politics a Democrat. He was public spirited and was always a leader who were when the last sad rites at his grave were said was evidence of how large was his circle of friends.

He departed this life at Jacksonville, March 26, 1911, sixty-one years old. His remains rest in the family cemetery on the home farm. His two sons, George M. and Herbert live with their mother at Oak Hill. Their new dwelling, one of the very best in the State, is Hearing completion and will be ready for occupancy possibly by holiday time A cut of this mansion appears above.

Both sons prepared for college at Lawrencc- ville school, N. George M. graduating from Princeton University, and H. E. from the University of Virginia.

George M. afterwards spent one year at Trinity College doing post-graduate work..