ROBERT E. JONES.
Mr. Jones has been a resident of Suffolk since 1884, engaged in business
with a brother there, the firm name and style, Jones & Bro.,
wholesale and retail dealers in coal, ice, hay, grain, and agricultural
lime. He was born in Charlton county, Georgia, March 16, 1864, but
is of a Virginia family.
His father, William Henry Jones, born in Nansemond county, Virginia,
and now again a resident in the county, was in service in the
Confederate States Army during the late war. His mother, whose
maiden name was Emma C. Copeland, died in 1883.
At Tarboro, North Carolina, October 12, 1887, Robert E. Jones
married Sue W., daughter of Frank S. Wilkinson and Annie Wilkinson,
nee Stronach, of Charlton.
