Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 1109.
 
WILLIAM J. JONES

     an Oregon pioneer of 1847, and an Indian war veteran of 1855-56, was born
in Indiana May 13, 1833.  Of his life and ancestry we present the following
sketch:
     The Jones family originated in England and some of them settled in America
previous to the Revolutionary war.  His father, William Jones, was born in
Kentucky August 8, 1811, and his mother, nee Mary Davis, daughter of Isaac
Davis, was born in Indiana.  He is the oldest of their eight children, six of
whom are living.  In 1840 the family moved to Iowa, and seven years later Mr.
Jones brought his wife and six children across the plains to Oregon.  They
started at a point seven miles west of Burlington, Iowa, in March, and after a
journey of six months landed in the Chehalem valley in Yam Hill county.  Here
the father took a donation claim three miles and a  half north of where Newberg
now stands.  On it he lived and prospered the rest of his days, and here, in
1892, he passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-one years.
     The subject of our sketch remained on the farm, assisting his father, until
he reached his majority.  He then learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at
that for a number of years.  After the death of his mother, he inherited fifty
acres of her donation claim.  August 16, 1859, he married Miss Elizabeth Shuck,
daughter of  Martin Shuck, who came to Oregon in 1852.  After their marriage
they settled on the farm, and there resided eighteen years.  Mr. Jones purchased
a water-power and built a dam and sawmill, and subsequently a gristmill.  After
running the gristmill three years he sold it, but the sawmill he operated ten
years.  Since then he has retired from business.  He, however, does some
millwright work.  He owns twenty acres of land and the comfortable home in which
he resides.
     Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had thirteen children, namely:  Charles Edward,
Robert Lee, Martin J., Irene E. (who died in her twenty-fifth year), Willie F.,
Thomas B., Samuel T., David A., Anna M., Ellen, Jacob M., Isaac W. and Maggie.
     When the Indian war of 1855-56 broke out, he was one of the brave pioneers
who tendered their service to the government to protect the settlers and
chastise the Indians.  He furnished his own horse and outfit, and rendered
valuable service until the war closed, and he was honorable discharged.
     Politically, Mr. Jones affiliates with the Democratic party.  He and his
wife are both consistent members of the Christian Church, and are held in high
esteem by a large circle of friends.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in December 2006 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.