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Note: 1796 - 1887. Or maybe he was born in 1797. One typewritten sheet byParke Jones says he was born August 28, 1796.
Son of Judge John Rice Jones and Mary Barger. Brother of JohnRice Jones, Myers Fisher Jones, George Wallace Jones. Uncle of AmeliaScott Jones Fariss.
He was denied membership in an Indiana company organized for the warof 1812 because he was only 16, so he organized his own company of boyswho fought the British without authority. Augustus was given thecomplimentary title of General.
Later his company was admitted into the army of the United States, andhe was officially appointed a Captain.
Theodore Augustus Jones age 16, John Rice Jones age 20, George WallaceJones, drummer boy at age 12, Andrew Scott, and John Scott served in theWar of 1812 under Gen. (or Capt.) Henry Dodge.
His first wife Mary Polly Reyburn Jones was carrying girl twins in1824. During a severe thunderstorm, a sudden gust of wind slammed thekitchen door into her stomach. Premature labor started; the first twindied the first day, and mother and second twin died the next day. Allthree were buried in the same casket.
Being left with a 2-year-old boy now, he married his wife's sister,Agnes Woods Reyburn (the widow Mrs. Samuel Hunter) in 1826, and thisbrought him five step-children. The two then had seven children oftheir own.
Augustus was U. S. Marshal of Missouri under President Andrew Jackson,1828-1838. He broke up a band of skilled counterfeiters in 1836 byacting a bit outside the law in arresting the offenders without legalevidence and without due process, the only way he could break up thegang. He was congratulated for the act and reprimanded for the method.
His mother made her home with him after his father died in 1824, andshe died at his home in 1839. He came to Texas in 1838.
Anson Jones, the Texas Secretary of State, is no relation.
He served as a private in the Mexican War in 1849.
After Agnes died in 1853, he married Hannah Elizabeth Elson in 1854,and they had seven children of their own. Counting Cornelia and thetwins who had died young, he had responsibility for 23 children. He had18 children of his own by three wives, and 5 step-children. PaulineJones, a daughter by his third wife, died in 1941, which is 145 yearsafter her father's birth. He was 64 when she was born, and she livedto be 81.
In 1861 he was refused service in the Confederate Army because he was65 years old.
He lived for a long time in Columbus, Texas, and is buried there. Wethink he was a farmer.
A Chapter of the Daughters of 1812 in San Antonio is named for him.
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