City: Cornersville<\/p>\n
JONES, Alfred<\/strong>, physician and farmer; born Duckriver, Tenn., May 15, 1839; Welch, English, Irish and French Huguenot descent; son of John Ridley and Martha (Lane) JONES<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, physician and planter; paternal grandfather Redding JONES<\/strong>, paternal grandmother Martha (Bustin) JONES<\/strong>, maternal grandfather John LANE<\/strong>, maternal grandmother Sara E. (Jones) LANE<\/strong>; graduated University of Nashville, Tenn.) M. D. 1858; married Maxie M. HARRIS<\/strong> July 8, 1862; member of Dibrell\u2019s 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<\/sup> 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<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[613,79,541,4419],"tags":[1349,994,263,1006,1350],"class_list":{"0":"post-1658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marshall","7":"category-surname-j","8":"category-university-of-nashville","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bustin","11":"tag-harris","12":"tag-jones","13":"tag-lane","14":"tag-orr","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15511,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/15511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}