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2794 GEORGIA AND GEORGIANSgrandson is Dr. Willis B. Jones of Atlanta. Anne V. married Oarlton B.Callaway at Macon. Dr. Chandler D. Jones died at Atlanta leaving threechildren. The next child is Enoch C. Morgiana married Raeburn Phillipsof Macon. Piamus W. was the owner of 2,500 acres of land in Baker County,and though not so large an operator was almost as famous a cotton groweras his father, having the reputation for years of putting the first bale ofcotton on the market and growing more cotton to the plow than any man inGeorgia; he represented Baker County for years in the General Assembly,and never married. Otis was a farmer and lawyer of Coweta County, andhis son Otis also took up the law and practiced at Newnan. The youngestchild, Orrie, married William Flanders of Macon, and was the mother offour children.Enoch Callaway Jones during his youth attended Irvin College in Tennessee. At the age of twenty-one, in 1859, he married Indiana Callaway,daughter of Parker and Susan Callaway of Wilkes County, where her father'was a large farmer and money lender. After his marriage Mr. Jones settledin Wilkes County with his father-in-law. His career had hardly begun whenthe war between the states broke out, and he enlisted in Company A, FirstRegiment, First Brigade of Georgia State Troops, one of those commandsknown as "Joe Brown's Pets." He went through the siege of Savannah, andthen followed the fortunes of that remnant known as Hardee's Command,among other engagements participating in the battle at Honey Hill, SouthCarolina. After the war Mr. Jones settled on a 1,600-aere plantation ownedby his father in Baker County, and in its management laid the foundationof his prosperity. He was a farmer and planter there twenty years, andwas noted as the largest corn grower in the county and also produced about150 bales of cotton annually. In 1887 Mr. Jones removed to Atlanta. Hisforesight enabled him to perceive to some degree at least the future destinyof the metropolis of the southeastern.states, and in 1890 he sold his farm andbegan investing his money in central property in Atlanta. It is needless tosay that his judgment has been well justified, and the properties which hehas owned and some of which he still holds represent a considerable fortune.Mr. Jones has spent a long and active life, has accepted every responsibilitywith determination and courage, has prospered in material circumstances, atthe same time rendering an adequate service in return, and has thus comeinto a green old age, surrounded by children and the comforts of life, oneof the most esteemed of the older residents of Atlanta. His chief interestnow lies in the Trinity Methodist Church, of -which he has long been an activemember.His first wife died in 1869, and in 1871 he was married in Baker Countyto Amelia Jones, daughter of Col. Augustus and Mary Jones, her fatherhaving been killed in the second battle of Manassas while leading a Confederate regiment. Mrs. Jones died in 1895, and in 1897 he was married atNevada, Missouri, to Adra Davis, daughter of Dr. Joseph and Susan(Kuykendall) Davis. By his first marriage there were two children: Callie,who died in childhood; and Elizabeth, who died after her marriage to GideonFleming of Albany. The children of the second wife are: Edgar Jones, whowas educated in the Neal School and then took up the real estate business inAtlanta; Hugh A., who was educated in the Georgia School of Technologyand the Eastman Business College, has extensive interests as a farmer butresides in Atlanta; Julian J., a resident of Atlanta and engaged in the realestate business, was educated in the School of Technology and by his marriage to Myrtie Barge of Atlanta has three children.SIDNEY LANIEB. It seems incredible, when one stops to consider SidneyLanier's reputation in this year of 1911, that his work could have been donein less than forty years of life. Poet, linguist, mathematician, lawyer, and