Honey Grove, Texas

Horace P. Jones

Published in the Honey Grove Signal-Citizen about 1938
Written by H. P. Allen, assisted by W. J. Erwin

Horace P. Jones was born in Cumberland County, Ky., in 1847. His father was Frank Jones and his mother's maiden name was Julia Allen, an aunt of the writer. After the Civil War was over and his negroes freed. Mr. Jones sold his farm and moved to Missouri. Horace chose to remain in Kentucky for a while. He spent two years with his grandmother in Warren County, then migrated to Missouri and joined his father's family, where he spent two or three years, after which he came to Honey Grove, where he farmed a few years, then acquired an interest in the cotton yard, then was made cotton weigher and sampler. He worked in cotton several years. In the meantime he married Miss Nannie Wall and established a home and reared a family of sons and daughters, and lived to be 80 odd years of age, then passed away. He was an excellent man, a member of the Presbyterian church. His descendants are a son, Joe, and two daughters, Helen and Ruth. Mrs. Jones passed away a few years ago.

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