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  • Jones County, Iowa

    Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Iowa. Official Website The county was founded in 1837 and named after George Wallace Jones, a United States Senator and member of Congress. Adjacent Counties Delaware County Dubuque County Jackson County Clinton County Cedar County Linn County Cities Anamosa (County Seat) Cascade Martelle Mon...

  • Jones County, Texas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Texas. The county was created in 1858 and organized in 1881. Both the county and its county seat are named for Anson Jones, the fifth president of the Republic of Texas. Adjacent Counties Haskell County Shackelford County Stonewall County Fisher County Taylor County Callahan County Cities & Communit...

  • Jones County, North Carolina

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, North Carolina. Official Website The county was formed in 1779 from the southwestern part of Craven County. It was named for Willie Jones, a planter and Revolutionary leader and president of the North Carolina Committee of Safety during the war. Adjacent Counties Craven County Carteret County Onslow County Le...

  • Jones County, Mississippi

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was created in 1826 and named after John Paul Jones, the early American Naval hero who rose from humble Scottish origin to military success during the American Revolution. The Free State of Jones During the American Civil War, Jones County and Covington County, to its west, ...

  • Jones County, South Dakota

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, South Dakota. Named after George Wallace Jones, an American frontiersman, entrepreneur, attorney, and judge, the county was created in 1916 and organized in 1917, . Adjacent Counties Jackson County Haakon County Stanley County Mellette County Lyman County Cities, Towns, Townships, Territories & Commun...

  • Jones County, Georgia

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jones County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 10, 1807 and named after U.S. Representative James Jones. Before the American Civil War a few factories sprang up in the county including a cotton gin factory at Griswoldville in the southern portion of the county and a woolen factory at Wallace. Griswoldvil...

  • Highland Cemetery, Stamford, Texas

    Highland Memorial Cemetery was opened in 1900 after Stamford was organized in Feb 1900. The earliest known burial was in Oct 1900 with two more in Dec of 1900. There are about 6000 burials with over 250 unmarked and unknown. There is currently a small red block building in the old section that is used to locate graves in the cemetery, with a list of interments, locations & maps. It is always un...

  • Highland Grove Cemetery, Morley, Iowa

    This project is for those buried in Highland Grove Cemetery, Morley, Jones County, Iowa. Find a Grave

  • Abilene, Texas

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Abilene, Texas . Official Website Abilene is the county seat of Taylor County and is located in Taylor and Jones counties. It is named after Abilene, Kansas . It is located 150 miles west of Fort Worth at the junction of Interstate 20 and U.S. Highways 277 and 83. It was one of many towns that came into existence as the Texas and ...

  • Dyess Air Force Base

    Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located approximately 7 miles southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and approximately 150 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas. The host unit at Dyess is the 7th Bomb Wing (7 BW) assigned to the Global Strike Command Eighth Air Force. The 7 BW is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bomber win...

  • Abilene Christian University

    Wikipedia Abilene Christian University (ACU) is a private, non-profit university in Abilene, Texas , affiliated with Churches of Christ. ACU was founded in 1906, as Childers Classical Institute. Abilene Christian University's fall 2014 enrollment was 4,427 students of which 777 were graduate students. Abilene Christian University Alumni

  • Battle of Griswoldville (November 22, 1864), US Civil War

    The Battle of Griswoldville was the first battle of Sherman's March to the Sea , fought November 22, 1864, during the American Civil War . A Union Army brigade under Brig. Gen. Charles C. Walcutt fought three brigades of Georgia militia under Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Philips , at Griswoldville (an industrial town), near Macon, Georgia , and continued its march toward Savannah .

  • Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa, Iowa

    The cemetery is located on the west side of Elm Street in Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 460662 (Riverside Cemetery). Find a Grave IA GenWeb Iowa Gravestones