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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2793nah and a fine farm in Chatham County. In politics He is a democrat but sofar has not been exceedingly active in public affairs as the demands of hisprofession largely occupy his time and attention. Self-reliant and successful,Mr. Cobb has every reason to take pride'in what he has accomplished and theexample he has set for others who may find themselves similarly situated intheir early manhood.ENOCH CALLAWAY JONES. Some of Georgia's most prominent families ofthe planter class are represented in the above name. Enoch Callaway Jones,now a retired business man of Atlanta, has the distinction of being a veteranof the Confederate army, was for a number of years a farmer, successful bothas a corn and cotton raiser and for more than twenty-five years a resident ofAtlanta.Enoch Callaway Jones was born in Meriwether County, Georgia, February 4, 1838, a son of John and Elizabeth (Strozier) Jones. The family isdescended from one of those Welsh families of Jones which settled in Virginia about 16207' About that time there came to this country five youngmjgn: Anthony, Cadwallader, Peter, John and Philip Jones, the first threefrom Wales and the last two from England. John perished in the Indianmassacre of 1622, Philip was dead in 1623, though it is not known whetheror no>*Te was killed in the Indian massacre, while Anthony, Cadwallader andPeter reared families, of which the descendants of Peter are far the mostnumerous. One of Peter's descendants, known as Col. Peter Jones, foundedthe Qity of Petersburg, Virginia. He was also known as "Sweat-house Peter,"from a system of curing tobacco of which he was the inventor, and was oneof the prominent men of his day. Willis Jones, grandfather of Enoch C.,was suppled to be a native of Wilkes County, Georgia, but a greater probability is that he was born in Virginia and came to Wilkes County as a youthin that great tide of emigration which flowed in from Virginia and NorthCarolina between 1784 and 1800. The Strozier family was founded inGeorgia by Reuben Strozier, a Dutchman, who came direct from the Netherlands to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he married Margaret Callaway, andhad seven children. Reuben Strozier was the maternal grandfather ofEnoch C. Jones. .Through these lines there is a very extended relationship,and branches of the family stock are found in many of the Southern states.Enoch C. Jones had two uncles, Madison Jones and Early Jones, who wentto Texas while that country was a republic. Another uncle, Willis Jones,died in Harris County, Georgia. One of his aunts, Matilda, married SimeonPoteat of Texas; his aunt Arthie married a Mr. Floyd, and another auntmarried a Mr. McKenzie.John Jones, 'father of Enoch C., was in his generation one of the largestplanters in Georgia, and during the high tide of his activities grew as highas a thousand bales of cotton a year. His various plantations included onein Dougherty County of 2,500 acres, two in Baker County of 3,000 acres ormore each, two in Meriwether County aggregating 3,000 acres, while his totalland holdings approximated more than 12,000 acres. At the close of the war,when negroes were freed, he was the owner of 337 slaves. He marketed hiscotton at Griffin, then a market for the wagon trade for a hundred milesaround, and it was at Griffin that he acquired the sobriquet which stuck tohim through life as "Cotton Jones," a title which distinguished him as oneof the most extensive cotton raisers in all Georgia. By his marriage to Elizabeth Strozier there was a large .family. The son Reuben, who died suddenlyon the street in Atlanta and left four children, was a farmer, represented hissenatorial district in the General Assembly, was active as a Mason, and hisdevotion to Sunday School work is indicated in the fact that he taught inSunday School for thirty-five-years without missing a Sunday. John, thesecond child, died at the age of twenty-one. Willis was a farmer, and his