Josiah A. Jones was born on 16. Mar. 1826 at Bourbon County, Kentucky. He was the son of
William Schooler Jones Sr. and
Nancy Ashurst. Josiah A. Jones married
Leoma Talbott on 15. Apr. 1847. Josiah A. Jones died on 6. Dec. 1889 at age 63.
JOSIAH A. JONES, farmer; P. O. North Middletown; is a native of Bourbon County, and was born March the 16th, 1826. His grandfather, James Jones, was a native of Virginia, and emigrated at an early day to Kentucky, and settled near Clintonville. William S., his second son, was born in 1784 and died in 1844. Was married about the year 1818 to Nancy Ashurst, of Bourbon County, by whom he raised four children, one daughter, Nancy R., who is now the widow of Charles Howerton, and three sons : John W., Benjamin and Josiah A., the latter of whom is th subject of this sketch. He was married April the 13th, 1847, to Leoma Talbott, of Bourbon, who was born August the 7th, 1830. This union was blessed with four children, two sons : Wm. Mason and Allen Gano, and two daughters, Susan A., wife, of Alex. K. Young, and Mary L., wife of John G. Redmon. Mr. Jones owns 210 acres of land northwest of North Middletown, Ky. He and wife, also his two daughters, are members of the Christian Church. He is a Democrat in politics.
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & County, Chicago, 1882, p. 542.