Soldier:  James Morris Jones

Regiment:  174th OVI                           

Company: A    

Age:  19                       

Date Entering Service:  7/22/1864

Period of Service:  11 months

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Mustered out with Company 6/28/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Overall’s Creek, Tennessee                                           12/4/1864

Battle of the Cedars, Tennessee                                     12/5/1864

Battle of Wyse Fork, North Carolina                                            3/7/1865

Other interesting information discovered:

James Morris Jones was born in Columbiana, Ohio on 10/28/1844. He married Hannah Evans in Morrow County, Ohio on 9/4/1873, four children were born of this union.  James lived in the Lincoln Township area of Cardington and was employed as a carriage maker.  Hannah collected a widow’s pension on 10/18/1887.

Date of Death:  8/8/1887                                   Place of burial:  Glendale Cemetery, Cardington, Ohio

Adopted By:  Brenda and Brian Skipworth                                   Researcher:  Velda L Montgomery