Israel Isaac Jones

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From http://www.isjl.org/alabama-mobile-encyclopedia.html

Many of these early Mobile Jews played an important role in civic and political affairs. In 1830, Solomon Jones moved to Mobile and became a very successful merchant.  Jones was quite active in the town’s civic affairs, serving as a volunteer fireman, an alderman, port warden, and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Alabama State Militia.  Solomon’s brother, Israel Jones, also served on the city council and was briefly the acting mayor of Mobile.

From http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/alabama-al/mobile.html

The first interment took place December 28, 1876. This was Israel I. Jones, one of Mobile's most prominent early Jewish citizens and president of the congregation for thirty years

From http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Alabama.html

Israel I. Jones (1810–1877), a London Jew who arrived early in the 1830s, was president of the congregation for most of his life; one of his daughters [Emily] married the well-known New Orleans rabbi, James Koppel Gutheim (1817–1886). An auctioneer and tobacco merchant, Jones was active in politics, served as an alderman, was president of the Mobile Musical Association, and introduced streetcars to Mobile.

Sarah Woolf was his sister in law

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