ALMON H. JONES, farmer and stock raiser. Sec. 21; P. O. Havana; was boro in Geauga Co., Ohio, June 25,1828; he is a son of Julius and Elvira (Wilcox) Jones; the former born in Massachusetts, the latter in New York; in 1837, the family removed to Illinois, locating in Menard in the fall of that year; in the spring of 1842, they came to Mason Co. and settled in Havana Township, where his father, with Charles Howell and William Pollard, built a saw mill on the opposite side of the stream from the mill now owned by Hugh McHarry. The subject of this sketch worked on his father's farm till about 24 years of age, and then became a tiller of the soil on his own account; he has resided on his present farm since 1856; owns about 380 acres of land in Havana and Quiver Townships; he has served as School Director about seventeen years, and, in 1852, was married to Miss Elizabath Pugh, who was born in Luzerne Co., Penn.; seven children by this union, four of whom are living:  Julius P., Iris L. (wife of Sheldon Atwater), Fannie M. and Florence A.; the three deceased are Orilla, Arthur D. and Charles C.



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