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Stephen Edward Jones (provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky)

b. 1833-04-23 d. 1914-07-28

Louisville, Kentucky, provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky. Harrodsburg, Kentucky native. Son of Stephen E. Jones and Ann M. Barclay Jones. Attended Bacon College in Harrodsburg. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Graduated from Amherst College in 1853. Law student at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, from 1854-1856. Married to Martha (Mattie) McKee on November 12, 1856. Father of Alice Jones, Hugh Jones, and Annie Jones. Practiced law in Keokuk, Iowa from 1856-1858. Lawyer in Jessamine County, Kentucky in 1860. Provost marshal general of the Military District of Kentucky in 1863 and 1864.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 144.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Sixth Ward Louisville, p. 594B.
KYR-0001-004-0165.
Amherst College Bulletin: Obituary Record, Vol. IV, No. 6 (June 1915), 163-164.
Find A Grave, “Stephen Edward Jones (1833-1914)," Memorial #120616639, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120616639 (accessed May 23, 2018).

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Jones, Stephen Edward. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213235 (November 12, 2026).

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