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Company A, 5th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment
HON. R. H. JONES, attorney and legislator, Jackson, Ohio, was born in North Wales, May 26, 1841, and is the son of Evan R. and Catharine (Hugh) Jones, both of whom were also natives of that country. Mr. Evans Jones with his wife and two children, R. H. and Jane, emigrated to America in the fall of 1844, and located at Akron, Ohio; subsequently in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he followed mining. During the great lead excitement i Wisconsin, in 1849, he moved to Dodgeville, in that State; but, becoming dissatisfied, returned East the same fall, settling near Sharon, Pa., and later in Jackson County, Ohio. After a brief residence here he, in 1852, became a land owner in Lawrence County and engaged in farming. In 1854 he returned to Wisconsin, settling at La Crosse, but soon returned. On his way East by steamer his wife died of cholera, and was interred on the Kentucky shore, fifteen miles below Louisville. He pressed on with his five motherless children to Jackson County, where he found foster families for all save R. H., whom he apprenticed to learn the saddler's trade at Oak Hill. After the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked at Ironton and Portsmouth until the Southern States threatened the destruction of the Union, when
he offered his services on the first call for troops, enlisting in three months' service in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, to suppress the threatening disaster. In July of the same year his term expired, but eight days later (on the 6th of August) he re-entered the service under General Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio Independent Battery, for three years. Owing to his physical disability he was discharged in October 1862, having been engaged on the 3d and 4th of the same month in the battle of Corinth. Preceding the battle of Corinth on April 6 and 7, engaged in battle of Shiloh. During his stay at home, in the summer of 1863, his health improved, and Sept. 9, of the same year he again entered the military service as Second Lieutenant of Company A, Fifth United States Colored Troops, at Camp Delaware, Ohio, serving in actual duty until the close of the Rebellion, having been commissioned as Captain in May, 1865. While in the battle of Shiloh his horse was shot from under him. In December, 1863, he was in the foraging expedition under General Wild from Norfolk at Elizabeth City, N. C. Subsequently he was transferred and landed at City Point, May 4, 1864, after which he was in nearly all the battles that took place in and about Petersburg and Richmond. His regiment, composed of parts of forces, engaged in both expeditions against Fort Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865, taking part in the sanguinary battle that resulted in the fall of this next to impregnable fort or fortress.
He returned home after his final muster out, October, 1865, and located in Jackson and in December, 1866, in Oak Hill, Ohio, and resumed his trade, and at the same time commenced the reading of law. He conducted his trade until 1873, when he relinquished it for the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in April, 1872. He practiced in Oak Hill until April, 1883, when he located in Jackson, Ohio. The early education of Mr. Jones was very limited, having never had but three months' schooling. Yet by his unflinching energy and determination he has acquired a good practical knowledge of the various branches outside of his profession. His political affiliations are in accordance with the Republican party, which, in the fall of 1881, elected him to the Sixty-Fifth General Assembly of Ohio, from Jackson County, and he is now renominated for election in the fall of 1883. He was married Apr. 28, 1868, to Maria S. Hanna, of Jackson County, Ohio, by whom he has had six children, all now living.
Source #2 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 561
Company A, 5th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment
HON. R. H. JONES, attorney and legislator, Jackson, Ohio, was born in North Wales, May 26, 1841, and is the son of Evan R. and Catharine (Hugh) Jones, both of whom were also natives of that country. Mr. Evans Jones with his wife and two children, R. H. and Jane, emigrated to America in the fall of 1844, and located at Akron, Ohio; subsequently in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he followed mining. During the great lead excitement i Wisconsin, in 1849, he moved to Dodgeville, in that State; but, becoming dissatisfied, returned East the same fall, settling near Sharon, Pa., and later in Jackson County, Ohio. After a brief residence here he, in 1852, became a land owner in Lawrence County and engaged in farming. In 1854 he returned to Wisconsin, settling at La Crosse, but soon returned. On his way East by steamer his wife died of cholera, and was interred on the Kentucky shore, fifteen miles below Louisville. He pressed on with his five motherless children to Jackson County, where he found foster families for all save R. H., whom he apprenticed to learn the saddler's trade at Oak Hill. After the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked at Ironton and Portsmouth until the Southern States threatened the destruction of the Union, when
he offered his services on the first call for troops, enlisting in three months' service in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, to suppress the threatening disaster. In July of the same year his term expired, but eight days later (on the 6th of August) he re-entered the service under General Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio Independent Battery, for three years. Owing to his physical disability he was discharged in October 1862, having been engaged on the 3d and 4th of the same month in the battle of Corinth. Preceding the battle of Corinth on April 6 and 7, engaged in battle of Shiloh. During his stay at home, in the summer of 1863, his health improved, and Sept. 9, of the same year he again entered the military service as Second Lieutenant of Company A, Fifth United States Colored Troops, at Camp Delaware, Ohio, serving in actual duty until the close of the Rebellion, having been commissioned as Captain in May, 1865. While in the battle of Shiloh his horse was shot from under him. In December, 1863, he was in the foraging expedition under General Wild from Norfolk at Elizabeth City, N. C. Subsequently he was transferred and landed at City Point, May 4, 1864, after which he was in nearly all the battles that took place in and about Petersburg and Richmond. His regiment, composed of parts of forces, engaged in both expeditions against Fort Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865, taking part in the sanguinary battle that resulted in the fall of this next to impregnable fort or fortress.
He returned home after his final muster out, October, 1865, and located in Jackson and in December, 1866, in Oak Hill, Ohio, and resumed his trade, and at the same time commenced the reading of law. He conducted his trade until 1873, when he relinquished it for the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in April, 1872. He practiced in Oak Hill until April, 1883, when he located in Jackson, Ohio. The early education of Mr. Jones was very limited, having never had but three months' schooling. Yet by his unflinching energy and determination he has acquired a good practical knowledge of the various branches outside of his profession. His political affiliations are in accordance with the Republican party, which, in the fall of 1881, elected him to the Sixty-Fifth General Assembly of Ohio, from Jackson County, and he is now renominated for election in the fall of 1883. He was married Apr. 28, 1868, to Maria S. Hanna, of Jackson County, Ohio, by whom he has had six children, all now living.
Source #2 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 561
*******USCT Virtual Cemetery*******
Company A, 5th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment
HON. R. H. JONES, attorney and legislator, Jackson, Ohio, was born in North Wales, May 26, 1841, and is the son of Evan R. and Catharine (Hugh) Jones, both of whom were also natives of that country. Mr. Evans Jones with his wife and two children, R. H. and Jane, emigrated to America in the fall of 1844, and located at Akron, Ohio; subsequently in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he followed mining. During the great lead excitement i Wisconsin, in 1849, he moved to Dodgeville, in that State; but, becoming dissatisfied, returned East the same fall, settling near Sharon, Pa., and later in Jackson County, Ohio. After a brief residence here he, in 1852, became a land owner in Lawrence County and engaged in farming. In 1854 he returned to Wisconsin, settling at La Crosse, but soon returned. On his way East by steamer his wife died of cholera, and was interred on the Kentucky shore, fifteen miles below Louisville. He pressed on with his five motherless children to Jackson County, where he found foster families for all save R. H., whom he apprenticed to learn the saddler's trade at Oak Hill. After the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked at Ironton and Portsmouth until the Southern States threatened the destruction of the Union, when
he offered his services on the first call for troops, enlisting in three months' service in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, to suppress the threatening disaster. In July of the same year his term expired, but eight days later (on the 6th of August) he re-entered the service under General Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio Independent Battery, for three years. Owing to his physical disability he was discharged in October 1862, having been engaged on the 3d and 4th of the same month in the battle of Corinth. Preceding the battle of Corinth on April 6 and 7, engaged in battle of Shiloh. During his stay at home, in the summer of 1863, his health improved, and Sept. 9, of the same year he again entered the military service as Second Lieutenant of Company A, Fifth United States Colored Troops, at Camp Delaware, Ohio, serving in actual duty until the close of the Rebellion, having been commissioned as Captain in May, 1865. While in the battle of Shiloh his horse was shot from under him. In December, 1863, he was in the foraging expedition under General Wild from Norfolk at Elizabeth City, N. C. Subsequently he was transferred and landed at City Point, May 4, 1864, after which he was in nearly all the battles that took place in and about Petersburg and Richmond. His regiment, composed of parts of forces, engaged in both expeditions against Fort Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865, taking part in the sanguinary battle that resulted in the fall of this next to impregnable fort or fortress.
He returned home after his final muster out, October, 1865, and located in Jackson and in December, 1866, in Oak Hill, Ohio, and resumed his trade, and at the same time commenced the reading of law. He conducted his trade until 1873, when he relinquished it for the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in April, 1872. He practiced in Oak Hill until April, 1883, when he located in Jackson, Ohio. The early education of Mr. Jones was very limited, having never had but three months' schooling. Yet by his unflinching energy and determination he has acquired a good practical knowledge of the various branches outside of his profession. His political affiliations are in accordance with the Republican party, which, in the fall of 1881, elected him to the Sixty-Fifth General Assembly of Ohio, from Jackson County, and he is now renominated for election in the fall of 1883. He was married Apr. 28, 1868, to Maria S. Hanna, of Jackson County, Ohio, by whom he has had six children, all now living.
Source #2 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 561
Company A, 5th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment
HON. R. H. JONES, attorney and legislator, Jackson, Ohio, was born in North Wales, May 26, 1841, and is the son of Evan R. and Catharine (Hugh) Jones, both of whom were also natives of that country. Mr. Evans Jones with his wife and two children, R. H. and Jane, emigrated to America in the fall of 1844, and located at Akron, Ohio; subsequently in Mahoning County, Ohio, where he followed mining. During the great lead excitement i Wisconsin, in 1849, he moved to Dodgeville, in that State; but, becoming dissatisfied, returned East the same fall, settling near Sharon, Pa., and later in Jackson County, Ohio. After a brief residence here he, in 1852, became a land owner in Lawrence County and engaged in farming. In 1854 he returned to Wisconsin, settling at La Crosse, but soon returned. On his way East by steamer his wife died of cholera, and was interred on the Kentucky shore, fifteen miles below Louisville. He pressed on with his five motherless children to Jackson County, where he found foster families for all save R. H., whom he apprenticed to learn the saddler's trade at Oak Hill. After the expiration of his apprenticeship he worked at Ironton and Portsmouth until the Southern States threatened the destruction of the Union, when
he offered his services on the first call for troops, enlisting in three months' service in Company A, Eighteenth Ohio Infantry, to suppress the threatening disaster. In July of the same year his term expired, but eight days later (on the 6th of August) he re-entered the service under General Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio Independent Battery, for three years. Owing to his physical disability he was discharged in October 1862, having been engaged on the 3d and 4th of the same month in the battle of Corinth. Preceding the battle of Corinth on April 6 and 7, engaged in battle of Shiloh. During his stay at home, in the summer of 1863, his health improved, and Sept. 9, of the same year he again entered the military service as Second Lieutenant of Company A, Fifth United States Colored Troops, at Camp Delaware, Ohio, serving in actual duty until the close of the Rebellion, having been commissioned as Captain in May, 1865. While in the battle of Shiloh his horse was shot from under him. In December, 1863, he was in the foraging expedition under General Wild from Norfolk at Elizabeth City, N. C. Subsequently he was transferred and landed at City Point, May 4, 1864, after which he was in nearly all the battles that took place in and about Petersburg and Richmond. His regiment, composed of parts of forces, engaged in both expeditions against Fort Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865, taking part in the sanguinary battle that resulted in the fall of this next to impregnable fort or fortress.
He returned home after his final muster out, October, 1865, and located in Jackson and in December, 1866, in Oak Hill, Ohio, and resumed his trade, and at the same time commenced the reading of law. He conducted his trade until 1873, when he relinquished it for the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in April, 1872. He practiced in Oak Hill until April, 1883, when he located in Jackson, Ohio. The early education of Mr. Jones was very limited, having never had but three months' schooling. Yet by his unflinching energy and determination he has acquired a good practical knowledge of the various branches outside of his profession. His political affiliations are in accordance with the Republican party, which, in the fall of 1881, elected him to the Sixty-Fifth General Assembly of Ohio, from Jackson County, and he is now renominated for election in the fall of 1883. He was married Apr. 28, 1868, to Maria S. Hanna, of Jackson County, Ohio, by whom he has had six children, all now living.
Source #2 - History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 561
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