C.S. Legislative Branch -Jones, Henry Cox - C.S. Delegate, AL

Henry Cox Jones:​

Born: January 23, 1821

Birthplace: Jones Family Plantation near Russellville Alabama
Father: William Stratton Jones Sr. 1796 – 1870
(Buried: Jones Cemetery No. 2 Franklin County Alabama)
Mother: Ann Harris Cox 1800 – 1864
(Buried: Jones Cemetery No. 2 Franklin County Alabama)
Wife: Martha Louisa Keyes 1822 – 1887
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
Children:
Private William Stratton Jones 1845 – 1864
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
Bertha Jones Allen 1847 – 1933
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
George Presley Jones 1850 – 1916
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
Ellen Rivers Jones 1852 – 1917
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
John Rather Jones 1856 – 1911
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
Jennie Jones Kernachan 1858 – 1927
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)
Martha Bolling “Mattie” Jones Jordan 1861 – 1932
(Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery Birmingham Alabama)
Wade Keyes Jones 1868 – 1888
(Buried: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama)


Political Party: Democratic Party

Education:
1840: Graduated from LaGrange College

Occupation before War:
Attorney in Franklin County Alabama
1841: Franklin County Alabama Probate Judge
1842: Alabama State Representative
1853: Alabama State Senator
1856 – 1861: Attorney in Florence Alabama
1860: Douglas Democratic Party Presidential Elector

Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Alabama State Secession Convention
1861: Chosen to succeed David Peter Lewis in Confederate Congress
1861 – 1862: Alabama Delegate to Confederate Provisional Congress
1861: Took office in Montgomery Alabama on April 19th​
1861 – 1862: Believed only emergency extra powers should be assign
1861 – 1862: Opposed new taxes, new loans, new executive powers
1861 – 1862: Opposed new uses of militia, and everything novelty
1861 – 1862: Made only three Suggestions from floor of Congress
1861 – 1862: Advocate for exempting carriages from taxation
1861 – 1862: Advocate for settling claims against the Confederacy
1862: Defeated narrowly for Regular Congressional Office
1862 – 1865: Confederate Contractor of cotton and woolens

Occupation after War:
1865 – 1876: Attorney in Florence Alabama
Associate of Josiah Patterson Campbell
1865 – 1870: Chairman of Alabama Democratic Central Committee
1876: Democratic Party Presidential Elector for Samuel J. Tilden ticket
1877 – 1895: Solicitor for his district in Alabama



Died: June 20, 1913
Place of Death: Florence Alabama
Age at time of Death: 93 years old
Burial Place: Florence Cemetery Florence Alabama

 

[Polloco]

Gonna have to do a little research, this biography states he succeeded David Peter Lewis in the Confederate Congress. Another states it was a Thomas Fearn that he replaced.My guess it was Fearn who died on January 16, 1863 but was born in 1789 and did resign from the Confederate Congress in April 1861.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Gonna have to do a little research, this biography states he succeeded David Peter Lewis in the Confederate Congress. Another states it was a Thomas Fearn that he replaced.My guess it was Fearn who died on January 16, 1863 but was born in 1789 and did resign from the Confederate Congress in April 1861.

This came from Confederate congress by Ezra Warner

 

[Polloco]

His first son ,William Stratton, was killed at Pulaski fighting under Forrest.