C. C. JONES was born October 27, 1847, near the village of Scottsburg, in Caldwell Co., Ky. His father, Noflet, a native of North Carolina, was born in 1816, and came to Tennessee when quite young. His mother, Harriet (Bowers) Jones (deceased) was a native of Tennessee. They were the parents of eight children, of whom our subject is the fourth. C. C. Jones has spent the greater part of his life in farm pursuits. He enlisted in Company C, Seventeenth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, United States army, September 20, 1864, and served just one year, when he was honorably discharged at Louisville. While in the service and sick at Bowling Green of varioloid and typhus fever, he lay in a stable in preference to going to the hospital, for nearly a week, living on hazel nuts. He is now suffering from the effects of his exposure in the war. In 1872 he opened a small store in Scottsburg, which he still controls. January 2, 1873, he was united in marriage to Miss Martha E. Howard, daughter of Franklin and Martha E. Howard. This union has been blessed with the following named children: Hugh, born December 17, 1873, died November 25, 1876; Harmon, born September 17, 1875; Ires May, born September 29, 1877; Mattie M., born October 31, 1879; Artilia F., born January 8, 1882; Firman, born January 16, 1883. Mr. Jones is an enthusiastic Republican.
Source: J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky. A History of the State. Louisville, KY, Chicago, IL: Battey, 1885. Pages 704-705.