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Sources consulted for the biography of:James Richard Jones ( –d. after 1902)
Biographical Information
- Marriage Register, Mecklenburg Co., 1869, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- United States Census Schedules, Mecklenburg Co., 1870 (with entries for James and Mary Jones in Flat Creek Township on Aug. 27 and Aug. 30), 1880, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Mecklenburg Co. Deed Books, 40:434–435, 41:594–595, 43:86–87, 46: 235–236, 305, 445–446, 451, 47:515, 61:171–172 (last record).
- Land Tax Returns, Mecklenburg Co., (1880–1903, last year listed), Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Records of Appointment of Postmasters, Virginia, Mecklenburg Co., Record Group 28, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C.
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 413 (1876), No. 9 (1877), No. 16 (1881), No. 19 (1885), Record Group 13, State Government Records Collections, Library of Virginia.
- 1876 election contest in Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1876–1877 sess.), 3–4, 401, 445.
- 1885 contested election majority and minority reports in Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1885–1886 sess.), 232–248, with vote on 263–264.
- Boydton Roanoke Valley, Nov. 3, 1876 (first quotation); Dec. 15, 1876 (second quotation).
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Nov. 10, 1881.
- Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 3, 1885, April 14, 1886, Oct. 10, 1886.
- Danville Weekly Register, Dec. 18, 1888.
- Britton Baskervill to William Mahone, Sept. 29, 1887, William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
Secondary Sources
- Misidentified as Joseph R. Jones, storekeeper and postmaster, in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 23.
- Harold S. Forsythe, "'But My Friends are Poor': Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869–1901," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (1997): 409–438 (described as J. Richard "Dick" Jones on 415n, 416, 418–419).
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