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John Bascom Jones
Born: 08 Feb 1849 Lafayette, Floyd, IN
Married: Abt. 1876
Died: 27 Mar 1942 Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY	Death Record Jefferson Co., KY Informant Alpheus Jones
Buried: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY SECTION A, Lot 591, Part , Range , Grave 7-A

 FATHER

Jesse H. Jones

MOTHER

 Susan C. Powers

WIFE

Martha Jane Hambrick
b.  Jul 1855 KY

CHILDREN

1. Frederick Bascom Jones    b. 19 Jul 1877    d. 04 May 1939     married: Lena Brooks		death record for Frederick Bascom Jones
2. Alpheus M Jones        b. Nov 1878
3. John Clarence Jones     b. 06 Jun 1881    d. 27 Dec 1935    married: Demetria I Skiles on 08 Jun 1904		death record for John Clarence Jones informant Stephen J. Jones, son
4. Chester Paul Jones     b. 04 Apr 1886     d. 08 Sep 1918		death record for Chester Paul Jones informant Fred. B. Jones
5. Stephen S. Jones     b. 09 Feb 1887     d. 10 Jul 1960	Judge Jones played key roles in the life of the Louisville community and the church. A native of Louisville, he attended Male High School, the University of Louisville School of Law and also University of Virginia. He was a lawyer from 1908 until he left the practice upon his appointment as Judge of the Fourth Common Pleas Division of Circuit Court by then Gov. Lawrence Wetherby in 1954. He served on the Board of Education from 1934 to 1946 and was president for three terms. Jones was a deacon at CHBC and taught the Men's Bible Class for 30 years. The annual Wigginton-Jones banquet honored his service. He played a legendary role in spearheading the giving campaigns to save the church during the Depression, even mortgaging his own house. Like many of his generation he was active with the Masons holding nearly every office including head of the State Scottish Rite Masons; his official title was "deputy of the Supreme Council of the Thirty-Third Degree, Southern Jurisdiction, Orient of Kentucky." An ardent supporter of humanitarian causes he served as vice president and board member of Kosair Crippled Children Hospital (which later merged with Norton to become Norton-Kosair Children's Hospital.) A Democrat, he served as campaign chairman in 1951. In WWI, Jones served with the Army Signal Corps in France (one of many CHBC youth to serve there) and on his return helped to organize the American Legion in Kentucky, serving as state adjutant general from 1919 to 1921. During WWII he was a member of the Selective Service Board in Louisville. Virginia Johnston served as a clerk in Judg Jones law office for many years.
6. James H. Jones     b. Aug 1889
7. Eloise Thelma  Jones     b. Nov 1899

8. Jesse D Jones
    b. 25 Sep 1892

Comment by granddaughter, Jo Hanson.  "My grandfather would be called an "entrepreneur." He bought real estate and for a time owned a fertilizer factory which he sold when he was between 40 and 45 and didn't work after that."

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