City: McMinnville
JONES, Richard Edwin, insurance man; born McMinnville, Tenn., April 29, 1872; English descent; son of W.E.B. and Ann L. (Page) JONES; father’s occupation, attorney-at-law; educated McMinnville (Tenn.) city schools, and Burritt College, Spencer, Tenn.; in early life he was a printer and publisher; married Nannie Lena WADE, Sept. 25, 1893; member I.O.O.F. (P.C.P. and P.G.), K.P., and A.O.U.W.; has passed the chairs and represented the A.O.U.W. in the Grand Lodge; Democrat; former deputy sheriff of Warren Co., Tenn., four years, and coroner of same twenty-four years; formerly superintendent of the McMinnivlle [sic] (Tenn.) district for the National Life and Accident Insurance Co., which position he held for eleven years at present he is special agent for Tennessee and Kentucky for the Southern Insurance Co., of Tennessee, in which company he is a stockholder; member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
