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JONES, Amos B.<\/strong>, minister of the gospel; educator; born Boydton Va., Dec. 4, 1841; Irish-Welsh-Dutch and English-French descent; son of Amos Wesley and Caroline Matilda (Blanch) JONES<\/strong>; fathers\u2019 \/sic\/<\/em> occupation, minister and president of Memphis Conference Female Institute; educated at Jackson, Tenn., and Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Auburn, Ala.; degrees of M. A., LL. D. was conferred upon him Southwestern Baptist University and D. D. by University of Ala.; married Mary Gordon GATES<\/strong> Feb. 6, 1868; member Masons, Royal Arch, Deputy Grand Master of Tenn., Knights Templar, Knights of Pythias, A. O. U. W., I. O. O. F. and Elks; Grand Capt.-Gen. K. T. and Dictator K. of H.; was Capt. in army of C. S. A. 1860-5; wounded Chicamauga Sept. 19, 1863, and Atlanta, 1864; ordained minister of the gospel M. E. church, South; elected president Huntsville Female College June 15, 1880, owned entire plant which was burned 1895; established college for young ladies Gadsden, Ala., May 31, 1859, and resigned July 31, 1896; was pastor of Talladega (Ala.) church 1896-7, and was elected president Memphis Conference Female Institute Sept. 25, 1897, which position he now holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Jackson JONES, Amos B., minister of the gospel; educator; born Boydton Va., Dec. 4, 1841; Irish-Welsh-Dutch and English-French descent; son of Amos Wesley and Caroline Matilda (Blanch) JONES; fathers\u2019 \/sic\/ occupation, minister and president of Memphis Conference Female Institute; educated at Jackson, Tenn., and Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Auburn, Ala.; degrees of M. A., LL. […]<\/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":[36,45,346,79,4419],"tags":[2065,1068,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-4531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-madison","7":"category-rutherford","8":"category-southwestern-baptist-university","9":"category-surname-j","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-blanch","12":"tag-gates","13":"tag-jones","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15512,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/15512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}