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ANDREW JONES was born in Culpepper county, Virginia, January 10, 1783. His parents died when he was a child. About 1808, he went to Bath county, Kentucky. There he married Eleanor Goodan, in 1812, who was born March 16, 1793, in Pennsylvania, and was taken by her parents to Kentucky when she was quite young. They had five children in Bath county, after which the family moved to this county, in 1825, and settled at Round Prairie, in Rochester township, locating on government land, where a son, John, was born, October 4, 1829. They made a home, and resided there until their death. The father died in 1854, and the mother in 1859, leaving five children, who settled in the immediate vicinity.

DANIEL G. JONES, the subject of this sketch, was born November 15, 1822, in Bath county, Kentucky, where he was raised on a farm, and received an elementary education in the schools of the neighborhood. He remained at home until he was twenty-seven years old, then married Amanda J. Brunk, in 1849. She died September 28, 1865, leaving two children, Laura and George. Her parents were George and Mary Brunk, who came to this county in 1821, and entered land in Ball township, where they remained many years. She was born January 1, 1830. Mr. Jones moved to the place where he is now living in 1855, and has a farm of seven hundred and ten acres, valued at $50 an acre; has a fine residence, and is one of the solid men of the township. His father came to the township in limited circumstances. Their first house was a log cabin about high enough for a man to stand in, sixteen feet in size, covered, and a puncheon floor. The family consisted of nine persons.