William Jones
William Jones was the first member of the Jones family that settled in Wayne Township. He came in 1802, at the same time with his father, Henry Jones, who settled in Curtis Township, Preble County. William Jones was born in 1774, and died in 1851. He owned at one time twenty-three hundred acres of land. His wife was Elizabeth Culbertson. She was born about 1775 and died in 1846. They were both natives of North Carolina, and were buried together in Preble County. They had eight children, five of whom, all girls survive them. Andrew Jones his son, was born in North Carolina, in 1799, and was a mere infant when brought to Butler County. Susan was born in 1794, dying in Indiana, Keziah, in 1797; Amy, widow of John Fox, 1802, lives in Preble County; Jemima, 1805; John, 1808; Mary, 1810; Elizabeth, 1813; Sarah, 1820; and Rebecca, 1823. The last, the wife Barzillai Inman, lives in Wayne Township.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.