Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 613.
 
SHERMAN JONES

     is one of the industrious tillers of the soil in Gilliam county and is also
one of the enterprising citizens who is ever alert to bring his county to the
front in proper ways. He was born in Henderson county, North Carolina, on
December 26, 1867, the son of James and Caroline J. (Ward) Jones, natives of
North and South Carolina, respectively. The father followed farming and
participated in the Civil War. In 1882, he went to Texas, taking his family, and
ten years later he removed thence to the Willamette valley and made settlement
on a farm in Yamhill county. His ancestors were from Welsh ancestry and settled
in North Carolina among the very first colonists. The mother was born of a
prominent and old family and is still living in the Willamette valley. Our
subject accompanied his parents in their various journeys and received his
education from the schools in the places where he lived. He remained in the
Willamette valley until 1897, when he came east of the mountains and sought out
a homestead for himself. This place is about eighteen miles west from Condon,
where Mr. Jones makes his home at the present time. He gives his attention to
farming and stock raising and is doing well. His brother, Burns Jones, is with
him and they have been associated together much of their life. He was born in
Henderson county, North Carolina, on February 22, 1868. In 1885, he married Miss
Annie Miller, a native of Nebraska. To them have been born four children, James
and Joey, twins, Martha, and Bryan.  Besides the brother mentioned, our subject
has four other brothers, Webb, Butler, Alfred, and Hood, all living in the
Willamette valley.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.