Category: JA Jones Construction

James Addison Jones I: birth and parentage

February 1, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

I want to start writing more about my life and background. One of the things I want to share is on my family history. Since Saturday’s are typically low-traffic days anyway, I feel like this day is the best for these posts. The first several posts with relate to a family history written in December […]

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Duke University, J. A. Jones Construction, and some family history

March 18, 2012.Reading time 8 minutes.

My great-great Grandfather with three of his sons, including my great-grandfather Raymond Jones, Sr., and Edwin L. Jones, Sr. which the below story involves. This photo may have been taken at the launching of a Liberty ship, when we ran the Brunswick and Panama City shipyards during WWII. For the 1912 Commencement, a father writes […]

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