Rev John Cargill Jones (1795-1863) - Find a Grave Memorial

Rev John Cargill Jones

Birth

9 Jun 1795

Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia, USA

Death

11 May 1863 (aged 67)

Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, USA

Burial

Camden Cemetery

Camden, Wilcox County, Alabama, USA Add to Map

Plot

Lot 96 Block 2B

Memorial ID

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Rev. John Cargill Jones
Baptist Minister

John Cargill Jones was born June 9th 1795, a son Capt. John and Lucy Binns (née Cargill) Jones (a soldier of the Revolution) and the grandson of Col. John Jones, of Brunswick County, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, 1772 to 1775, and president of the Virginia senate, 1787-1788, the great-grandson of John Jones, son of Peter Jones, the founder of Petersburg, Va. The Jones family were prominent early settlers in Prince George and Brunswick counties.

Rev. Jones married Miss Mary Ann Walker on the 26th of September 1822. This union was blessed with the following known children:
Lucy Cargill {m. Matheson}(1824-1880)
Martha "Mattie" Binns (1825-1879)
Mary Eliza (1827-1883)
Thomas Warburton (1829-1855)
John Walker (1831-1848)
Catherine Cole (1833-1911)
Sarah "Sallie" Cargill (1835-1908)
John Paul (1837-1903)
Edward Nathaniel (1839-1917)
Richard Channing (1841-1903)
Virginius Walker (1844-1864)
Charles Binns (1846-1846)

Around 1844, Rev. Jones, Mary and children emigrated west and settled in Wilcox County, Alabama. Here he supplied several baptist churches and later became of pastor of Camden Baptist Church.

Alabama Baptist churches Rev. John C. Jones, served
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Rock West ~ minister
Black's Bluff - supply
Gravel Creek ~ supply
Camden ~ minister

Inscription

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Sacred
to the memory of
Rev. John Cargill Jones
Who was born in Brunswick County, Va.
June 9, 1795,
And died in Camden, Alabama
May 11, 1863
At the time of his death he was Pastor of the Camden Baptist Church.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; they rest from their labors; And their works do follow them."

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