Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 2.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 179.
 
J. C. JONES
 
     An expert worker in stone and marble, J. C Jones has developed one of
Salem's leading industries and his ability and enterprise have won for him more
than local prominence. A native of Virginia, he was born in the city of Richmond
in 1873 and is a son of George and Ellen (Birch) Jones. His father has passed
away and the mother now resides in Atlanta, Georgia.
 
     J. C. Jones received a public school education and afterward learned the
trade of a stone cutter. In 1900, when a young man of twenty-seven, he responded
to the call of the west and spent a year in California. In 1901 he located at
Portland, Oregon, and later purchased stock in the Shannon-Blair Company, stone
cutters and makers of monuments. At the end of a year he severed his relations
with the firm and moved to McMinnville, Oregon, where he embarked in the same
line of business in association with Henry Gee. They afterward transferred their
activities to Forest Grove, Oregon, and in 1914 allied their interests with
those of Salem. The firm of Gee & Jones secured a desirable site at No. 2210
South Commercial street and erected a fine building two hundred by one hundred
feet in dimensions, affording ample space for manufacturing and for the display
of their products. The senior partner died in 1920 and Mr. Jones has since
continued the industry alone. He is the only monument maker in Salem and also
deals in building stone, catering to both the wholesale and retail trades. His
plant is completely equipped and a well merited reputation for artistic work has
brought him a business which extends throughout the Willamette valley. He has
two traveling salesmen and employs six stone cutters, all of whom are thoroughly
experienced.
 
     In 1903 Mr. Jones married Miss Bertha Freeman, who died in 1923. In 1924 he
was joined in wedlock to Miss Pearl Parkhill, a native of Duluth, Minnesota, and
they have become the parents of two children, James Cotney and Daryl. Mr. Jones
gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and is one of the
energetic members of the Salem Chamber of Commerce. His fraternal connections
are with the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the
World and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He lends the weight of his
support to all worthy civic projects and owes his success to concentrated effort
and honorable dealing.

     
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above.