City: Cornersville
JONES, Alfred, physician and farmer; born Duckriver, Tenn., May 15, 1839; Welch, English, Irish and French Huguenot descent; son of John Ridley and Martha (Lane) JONES; father’s occupation, physician and planter; paternal grandfather Redding JONES, paternal grandmother Martha (Bustin) JONES, maternal grandfather John LANE, maternal grandmother Sara E. (Jones) LANE; graduated University of Nashville, Tenn.) M. D. 1858; married Maxie M. HARRIS July 8, 1862; member of Dibrell’s Bivouac Confederate Veterans; served in the Confederate Army four years, member of Third Tenn., captured at Fort Donelson, escaped later from Camp Chase and was assigned duty in the medical department 17th Tenn., where he served until the close of the war; was in the bloody campaign with Longstreet over the mountains of East Tennessee, where the barefoot soldiers could be tracked with blood; served during siege of Richmond; after surrender in company with Samuel ORR rode 1,100 miles on horseback to Marshall Co.; Democrat; former member lower house Tenn. general assembly; three times member of state senate Tenn. general assembly; now engaged in farming; president of Farmers Bank, Cornersville (Tenn.); member of M. E. Church, South.
