John Paul Jones Collection

Finding Aid


Box 1

Military/Veteran Affairs
- booklet - Cromwell's Soldier's Pocket Bible
- brochure re: National Guard - The Enlisted Man
- letters from Jones to his family during his service in the Spanish-American War [1898](1)
- information re: Jones' service in the Georgia State Troops and National Guard [1898-1908]
- information re: veterans' affairs - brochure and transcript of 1933 Congressional hearing

Military/Veteran Affairs (2)
- correspondence re: Jones' military pension [1916-1931]

Business Affairs
- bank records, correspondence, etc. re: Jones' painting and paperhanging business
- 2 ledgers from Jones' business

Photographs and Pictures
- 27 unidentified photographs
- 2 pictures - 1 of dog, 1 of barnyard scene

Note: The following four folders contain items having to do with Jones' membership in these organizations - by-laws, rules of conduct, etc. Listed after the folder title is the lodge to which Jones belonged.

Odd Fellows
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Georgia Lodge No. 167

Masons
- Ogeechee Lodge No. 213 F. & A. M.

Ku Klux Klan
- 2 rule books (no lodge or chapter specification given)

Knights of Pythias
- Statesboro Lodge No. 97

Miscellaneous
- miscellaneous correspondence
- 4 booklets
- Calendar and Useful Information: 1913-14
- Palmistry: Mysteries of the Hands
- By-Laws of the Statesboro Chapter No. 59 R. A. M. 1907
- The Sellars Tent and Awning Company
- small blue book labeled Senator - all other text is in cipher
- The Livestock Industry of the United States, U. S. Department of Agriculture publication [1915]
- leather folder labeled Bill of Fare: Planters Hotel, containing menus and wine list for Central Hotel on August 19, 1874
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1. Jones served in the Georgia Volunteers. The letters are mainly from Chickamauga, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee.