Author: Jones, Charles L. S.
Biography:
JONES, Charles L. S. (c. 1796-1872: ancestry.com)
Originally from Connecticut, he arrived in Mobile AL some time before Alabama achieved statehood in 1817. In 1828-30 he was teaching school and had a wife and preschool children. His two books of 1834--a verse translation of Voltaire and a volume of poetry celebrating the area-- were the first literary publications produced in Mobile. There are brief glimpses of his later life: he established a successful private academy in Montgomery TX, assisted by his son and daughter, but was obliged to close it when his son and other young men of the district enlisted during the Civil War. In the 1870 Census he is registered as living in Montgomery in a household that included three younger adults (two women, one man) and two young children. He died in Montgomery. (ancestry.com 25 June 2019; William Harley Gandy, "A History of Montgomery County, Texas," MA Thesis, University of Houston, 1952, Ch. 8; alabamapioneers.com 25 June 2019) HJ