[1][2] Born in Florida in 1833,[3] Jones served in the Louisiana State Legislature from 1864 to 1865, and was chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
[1] In 1867, Jones was arrested in Natchitoches, Louisiana, on a charge of having been implicated in the murder of one Cyrus W. Stauffer.
While confined in the military prison in the city, he fell ill with cholera, and was released.
[4][3] Jones had a brother who was a doctor who also died of cholera only a few days earlier.
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