Andrew Jackson Jones

Home in 1880: Dry Lake, Brooks, Georgia

Home in 1900: Militia Districts 1230, 1402, Dry Lake, Dixie, Brooks, Georgia

Home in 1910: Militia District 1402, Brooks, Georgia

Born in Putnam county, Georgia, December 27, 1836, Andrew Jackson Jones was

reared amid pioneer scenes, when people lived in a very primitive manner, with

few modern conveniences. Travelling was mostly performed on horseback, by

private conveyance, or by stage, railways being nowhere in evidence, while wild

beasts and game of all kinds was abundant. But ten years old when his father

died, he spent the next eight years at the home of a relative, where he was well

drilled in the various branches of agriculture. Coming from there to Brooks

county, he was plantation overseer until the breaking out of the Civil war, when

he enlisted in the “Brooks Rifles,” a company which was sent to Virginia to join

the army of North Virginia. He continued with his command, taking part in its

various marches, campaigns and battles, serving under Generals Joseph M.

Johnston, Magruder and Longstreet. When the end came he was with other of his

comrades on detached duty, striving to keep the cattle away from the Federals.

Finding that he and his associates were nearly surrounded, with no chance of

further saving the cattle, and not wanting to surrender, he started on foot for

Georgia, and was fortunate to secure a ride a part of the way. At Macon, he and

his companions met an officer of the Confederate army who told them that it was

useless to continue their flight, and advised them to surrender, advice which

they heeded. Returning to his old home, Andrew J. Jones resumed farming on

rented land. A short time later he bought a tract of land in Dixie precinct, and

was there successfully employed as a tiller of the soil for many years.

From:

pages 939-940 of

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA

BY

WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II

ILLUSTRATED

THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK

1913