MR. THOMAS JONES. COLUMBUS, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Farmer, Secs. 23 and 26; P. O. Columbus; was born in Merionethshire, North Wales, October 20th, 1833; his father, Thomas Jones, was born in Merionethshire, and died in the town of Columbus, Columbia County, Wisconsin, November 7th, 1849; his mother, Elizabeth Gittings, was also a native of that shire, and died in Wisconsin in August, 1862.Thomas our present subject, is the oldest of five children, with whom his parents landed in New York, as emigrants to America, July 8th, 1845; they settled in the town of Macy, Oneida County, New York, for nearly a year, and then removed to the town of Columbus, Columbia County, Wisconsin, where they arrived June 3rd, 1846, where they located on a farm on Sec. 27; Mr. Jones made his home o n the farm till his marriage in 1861, to Miss Mary J., daughter of Dan and Hannah M. Tompkins, a native of Yates County, New York, but an emigrant with parents to Wisconsin, in 1854, and located in the town of Otsego, Columbia County; where her father died in 1876; her mother still resides in that town.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones located soon after marriage on a farm of 170 acres, on Sec. 22, and made that their home till February 8th, 1876, whence he removed to his present farm of 135 acres, on Secs. 23,25 and 26. He has been a member of the Town Board for two terms.