DRURY JONES was born January 12, 1830, in Ball township, and is the son of Robert Jones, who was born September 25, 1790, in Orange county, North Carolina. In 1816, he married Sabitha Lord, who was born June 18, 1795. They moved to this county May 13, 1828, in what is now Ball township, and he followed farming until his death, May 16, 1874. Mrs. Jones died September 22, 1861. Drury, the subject of this notice, was married June 11, 1850, to Amanda M. Porterfield, who was born in this county, 1831, and of their three children, only one, James Madison, is living. Robert Philemon and Minerva Jane are deceased. Mrs. Jones died April 22, 1855, and on September 11, 1856, Mr. Jones married Susannah Meridith, who was born May 4, 1837. By this marriage there have been nine children, of whom seven are now living, viz: Amanda Jane M., born November 13, 1857. She was married October 1, 1874, to Charles R. McClure; they have one child, Hattie A. McClure. Charles Calvin Lafayette, born November 21, 1859, married October 20, 1880, to Clara I. Vigal. Davis A. Washington, born March 8, 1862; William Arthur E., born November 28, 1864; Francis M. Josiah, September 26, 1867; Sarah Melissa Ann, born August 6, 1870, died May 22, 1871; Mary Ettie, born June 12, 1872; Samuel Christopher, born Jan. 11, 1875, died January 24, 1876; and Emma Louise born January 17, 1877. Mr. Jones received his education in the common schools. He now resides on his farm, of which there are eight hundred acres, in a good state of improvement, worth $50 per acre. He is a Democrat.