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Reuben R. Jones (Meade Co, Ky, sheriff and major)

b. 1811?

Meade County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Cora Lenora Jones. Father of Mary A. Jones, Cora Eveline Jones, Maria Louisa Jones, Samuel R. Jones, Kate Jones, William B. Jones, and Ida Jones. Sheriff of Meade County in 1860. Served in the Kentucky Volunteers (U.S.A.) as a major in December 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 124.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860 (Frankfort: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 169.

KYR-0002-222-0137.

Citation

Jones, Reuben R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202495 (November 12, 2026).

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