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Charles Colcock Jones Jr. (Chatham County, Georgia, student, attorney, mayor of Savannah, first lieutenant and lieutenant colonel (C.S.A))

b. 1831-10-28 d. 1893-07-19

Chatham County, Georgia, student, attorney, mayor, and soldier. Savannah, Georgia native. Son of Charles Colcock Jones Sr. and Mary Jones. Married to Ruth Berrien Whitehead Jones in Richmond County, Georgia, on November 9, 1858. Father of Julia B. Jones and Ruth Berrien Jones. Married to Eva Berrien Eve Jones in Richmond County on October 28, 1863. Father of Edworth Jones. Attended South Carolina College in Columbia, South Carolina. Graduate of the College of New Jersey in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1852. Graduate of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1855. Resident of Liberty County, Georgia, in 1850. Household owned eighty-five enslaved persons in Liberty County in 1850. Attorney in Chatham County in 1859. Attorney in Chatham County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Chatham County in 1860. Mayor of Savannah in 1860. Served in the Chatham Artillery (C.S.A.) as first lieutenant and lieutenant colonel from 1861 to 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Liberty County, District 17, p. 331B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Liberty County, District 15, p. 58-59.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah District 3, p. 259.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, District 3, p. 72.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, New York, Kings County, Brooklyn, Ward 6, p. 167B.

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”The City Election Yesterday,” The Daily Constitutionalist and Republic (Augusta, GA), Oct. 11, 1860.

City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1859, Research Library & Municipal Archives, City of Savannah, GA, Film #0223139.

City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1863, Research Library & Municipal Archives, City of Savannah, GA, Film #0223141.

Confederate Applications for Pardon and Amnesty, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll #0020.

"Colonel Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. (1831-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #71922720, accessed August 6, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71922720.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

Georgia County Marriages (1854-1863), Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, GA. Richmond County Marriages, p. 156.

Georgia County Marriages (1863-1864), Georgia Department of Archives and History, Morrow, GA. Richmond County Marriages, p. 56.

Georgia Death Certificates, 1914-1927, Georgia Department of Public Health, Georgia Department of Health and Bureau of Vital Statistics, Atlanta, GA Certificate #19677.

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Jones Charles Colcock, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204002 (November 12, 2026).

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