The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
The Genealogy of David L. Moody & Yvonne L. La Pointe. - Person Sheet
Misc. Notes
She was Charles' first wife and died of puerperal fever two weeks after the birth of their second child. ®3327
Spouses
Birth28 Oct 1831, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA ®3327
Burial1893, Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA
MemoSummerville Cemetery
OccupationLawyer, Historian
EducationCollege of New Jersey AB. 1852 A.M. 1855 Harvard Law School L.L.B. 1855
FatherREVEREND DOCTOR Charles Colcock JONES SR (1804-1863)
MotherMary ANDERSON (1808-1869)
Misc. Notes
He returned to Savannah, Georgia in 1855 as a lawyer and was the Mayor from 1860 to 1861. He joined the Confederate Army in the fall of 1861, ascending to the rank of Colonel and surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army on 26 April 1865. In 1865 he moved to New York, living in New York City near Central Park, and engaged in the practice of Law. ®3327 In the spring of 1877 he returned with his family from New York City to Georgia and fixed his residence at Montrose, a fine antebellum mansion in Summerville, (now part of Augusta, Georgia) where he lived until his death in 1893. ®3327
Family ID1495
Marriage9 Nov 1858 ®3327
ChildrenJulia Berrien (Died as Child) (1859-1861)
Mary Ruth (1861-1934)