Round Oak is an unincorporated community in Jones County, Georgia, United States.

His grandfather was John White, the emigrant from Leicestershire, England, whose death was recorded by his will, executed in 1788 in Virginia.

(The White Family Cemetery is 12.3 miles north on Highway 11 from the railroad intersection in Gray, on the left, 50 yards in.)

Only two sons of their 12 children survived--the first, Joseph Clark White (1808-1865), remained here and owned 3000 acres and 120 enslaved people; the second, Francis Marion White (1810-1887), went to Como, Panola county, in northwestern Mississippi, and owned more than 200 enslaved people.

She leaves children, Jackson, 83; Mary, 81; Tom, 80; John, 78; Henry, 72; and also seventy grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The day before her death Aunt Ca'line threaded her needle, without the aid of glasses, and quilted; she also helped whitewash the fireplace.

She became rather deaf in the last few years and her grandchildren persuaded her to stay off the highway, but before that she came to town every day and was as chipper as could be, liked by all, white and colored.

“She told her descendants of the time when they left after cessation of hostilities, and they never heard from them again.” Gen. Stoneman was said to have been taken here after his defeat; an upstairs bedroom was said to be papered with the “useless Confederate money.”[8] A post office called Round Oak was established in 1878, and remained in operation until 1906.

[3] Father and son Alonzo and James D. Green were innocent African-Americans lynched near Round Oak and Wayside, Jones County, Georgia in retaliation for the murder of popular white farmer Silas Hardin Turner on July 4, 1915.