However, they eventually had a falling out, with Hamilton remaining a "straightout" Republican, and Jones affiliating with the Readjuster Party led by former Confederate general turned railroad executive William Mahone.
[2] In the same month as his legislative service resumed, December 1885, Jones was accused of stealing a registered letter two years earlier whilst he was the Boydton postmaster.
He may be the 33 year old Black farmer James Jones who lived with his wife, son and daughter in Boydton, the Mecklenburg County seat in 1880.
[15] While James B. Jones shows in the 1900 census of Washington D.C. as living at 1716 E. Street NW, that man born in Virginia in 1847 was a servant to John Keane, a New Yorker who worked as a driver.
[16] and another James Jones who worked as a cart-driver and was born in Virginia circa 1854 lived with his wife and another Black couple in another ward.