JONES, JONATHAN F., was born in Caroline county, Virginia, July 21, 1833, son of Henry and Mary F. (Childs) Jones. He remained with his father until twenty-five years of age. He then married Martha E. Marshall, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, November 12, 1842, and daughter of John and Jane (Wyatt) Marshall, who came to this country in 1860, where they resided until the father's death, in 1880; her mother still resides in Salisbury township. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had four children: Charles H. and John Frederick are living; Jennie Bell and Herbert F. are deceased. In 1862, Mr. Jones purchased eighty-three acres of land, situated on the Sangamon river; this land he still owns. Politically, he is a Republican, and both are members of the Baptist Church at Bethel.