★★★ Jones, Jospeh Pickett Sr.

Joseph Pickett Jones Sr.
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Born: May 8, 1833

Birthplace: Wadesboro, North Carolina

Father: Walter Gaither Jones 1799 – 1859

Mother: Evalina Pickett 1814 – 1833

Wife: Victoria Cecelia Calder Moreno 1841 – 1883

(Buried: Saint Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida)​

Children:

Captain Celestino Moreno Jones 1865 – 1938​

(Buried: Saint Michael's Cemetery Pensacola Florida)​

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Joseph Pickett Jones Jr. 1870 – 1955​

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery Beaumont Texas)​

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Martin Paul Jones 1879 – 1948​

(Buried: Grand View Memorial Park Glendale California)​

Education:

1849 – 1850: Attended West Point Military Academy​

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Graduated from University of North Carolina​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Anson County, North Carolina​

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1856 – 1861: Served in the United States Army rising to the rank of Lt.​

Civil War Career:

1861: 1st​ Lt. Confederate States Regular Army​

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1861: Assistant Adjutant General on General Bragg's Staff​

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1861: Lt. Colonel of 5th​ North Carolina Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Resigned as Lt. Colonel in Confederate Army on October 24th​​

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1862: Temporary Colonel of 17th​ Alabama Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Assistant Inspector General Army of Tennessee​

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1862 – 1865: Served on General Braxton Bragg's Staff​

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1864 – 1865: Roving inspector in the Confederate Army​

Occupation after War:

1865: Fled to Mexico after the end of the war​

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Served as an officer in Maximilian's Army in Mexico​

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1867: Returned to the United States​

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1867 – 1895: Attorney in Monticello and Pensacola, Florida​

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1875 – 1877: Mayor of Pensacola, Florida​

Died: March 4, 1895

Place of Death: Pensacola, Florida

Age at time of Death: 61 years old

Burial Place: Saint Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida

 

[Bruce Allardice]

His wife was related to Mrs. Stephen Mallory. Jones had "connections."

 

[Pollaco]

Wrong Joseph Jones, I was reading the biography of the Jones who was the doctor at Andersonville.

 

[Pollaco]

What was the date of Jones taking over the 17th. Alabama? It was the 17th Alabama in which Jones became temporary colonel by filling a vacancy.The vacancy may have been the result of the resignation of its original Colonel, Thomas Watts.On March 18, 1862 Col.Watts was named as the 3rd Attorney General of the Confederate States.

 

[ErnieMac]

From the 4 March 1895 edition of the Pensacola News.