Earls Jones

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farm worker living with his parents and 3 siblings on their small farm at Mt Olive in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted on 2 July 1861 at Weogufka in Coosa County and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from 7 July 1863 to 14 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

By 1866 he was back in Coosa County and in 1870 was a farmer there. By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was farming at Gilpin in Fayette County, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, as Early Jones, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, as both Earls and Early Jones, and the Alabama State Census of 1866. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary E Perkins (1844-1905) in August 1865 and they had 10 children. He married again Sarah D. Newton (1857-1932) in 1905.

03/07/1844 in SC

09/30/1913; Fayette County, AL; burial in Sand Springs Cemetery, Fayette County, AL