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Henry Clay Jones

Early life
Henry Clay Jones was born on November 25, 1845 in Griffin, Georgia. His father was John William Jones, an American politician and physician who Representative Georgia in the United States Congress. His father was also Confederate surgeon during the American Civil War. Jones' mother was Charlotte Pratt Rogers, who was from Athens, Georgia and the first cousin of Walter T. Colquitt. In 1855, Henry Clay Jones' parents moved to Atlanta, Georgia.

Career
In 1861, Jones enlisted in Col. Robert J. Cowart's regiment of State troops. After six months, he enlisted as a private in Company B in the Seventh Georgia infantry. He was later made color bearer of his regiment. He traveled to Virginia, where he took part in the Maryland Campaign, fighting at the Battle of South Mountain and the Battle of Sharpsburg in September 1862. Jones also took part in Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862), Battle of Suffolk (April/May 1863), and the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863). After the Pennsylvania campaign, Jones was transferred to the West. Jones served as commissary of Robert E. Lee's battalion in Camp Preston, Atlanta. There, he was elected second lieutenant under Bass Douglas' company in the Georgia Reserves. As second lieutenant, he served in Georgia and in the The Carolinas. He was in charge of his company at the Battle of Bentonville in March 1865 and later the surrender near Greensboro, North Carolina.

After the war, Jones studied law. He graduated in 1871 from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. After graduating, Jones moved to Decatur, Georgia and began to practice law. Jones served as a judge in a city court of DeKalb County for four years. He was judge in a county court of DeKalb County for one year. From 1885 to 1887, Jones served as DeKalb County District Attorney, at the time called solicitor-general of the Stone Mountain circuit.

Personal life
In 1872, Jones married Mary M. Ramspeck of Petersburg, Virginia. They had five daughters and one son.

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