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The couple had several children, including Harrison, Saunders, Lula Dean, and Bolling H. Jones.","In 1898, Jones became Vice President of Atlanta Stove Works, and the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Jones became the president of the company the next year, and the he and his brother Bolling Jones later founded what became the Birmingham Stove \u0026 Range Company in Birmingham, Alabama. Jones died on April 6, 1930, and is buried in the Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.","External Sources:","U.S. Federal Census, 1870-1880, 1900-1920.","University Catalogs, 1876-1878.","\"Mr. S.D. Jones,\" Box 18, Virginia Tech Alumni Association Alumni Cards, RG 29e, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.,  https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_3335.xml , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Samuel Dewes Jones\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109068797/samuel-dewes-jones , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Elizabeth Harrison Jones\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109068923/elizabeth_jones , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Saml D. Jones\" in the Virginia, U.S., Birth Registers, 1853-1911, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/343248:62153 , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Sam D Jones\" in the Fulton and Campbell Counties, Georgia, Cemetery Records, 1857-1933, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/322420:61953 , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Forgotten Foundry: Birmingham Stove \u0026 Range\", Southern Cast Iron, November 17, 2021,  https://southerncastiron.com/forgotten-foundry-birmingham-stove-range/ , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Samuel D. Jones\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1853-1935, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/430245:62154 , accessed April 26, 2024.","Henry C. Wysor was born to George Washington and Margaret Ann Wysor in October 21, 1847, in Washington County, Virginia. During the American Civil War, Henry enlisted with the Confederacy at the age of 16 in 1864 with the 45th Infantry and later transferred to Company F of the 54th Infantry. He married Mary Elizabeth Shipp (1846-1922) in 1873, and the couple had six children, Mary S., William W., Henry, Cora R., Rufus J., and Davidson C. ","Wysor primarily worked as a Life Insurance Agent who ran his own branch of the New-York Life Insurance Company in southwestern Virginia. He also owned an apple orchard and sold apples to people throughout southwestern Virginia and West Virginia. He died on August 7, 1927, in Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia.","\nSources:","U.S. Federal Census, 1880, 1900-1920.","\"Henry Crockett Wysor\", FindAGrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38066024/henry-crockett-wysor , accessed April 26, 2024.","\"Mary Elizabeth Shipp Wysor\", FindAGrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38064279/mary_elizabeth_wysor , accessed April 26, 2026.","\"Henry C Wysor\" in the U.S., Civil War Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/676433:1555 , accessed April 26, 2024.","The guide to the Samuel D. Jones Letter to Henry C. Wysor by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Samuel D. Jones Letter to Henry C. Wysor was completed in April 2024.","Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives maintains several related Wysor family papers:","Rufus J. Wysor Papers, Ms1968-008","James M. Wysor Letter, Ms2013-035","Henry Wysor Family Papers, Ms2015-026","Henry C. Wysor Family Papers, Ms2023-012","F. P. Miles Letter to Henry C. Wysor, Ms2024-052","John C. Wysor Letter, Ms2024-056","Robert E. Wysor Account Book, Ms2024-057","The Samuel D. Jones Letter to Henry C. Wysor is a letter written on March 10, 1893, from Jones in Glade Spring, Virginia, to Wysor in Dublin, Virginia. The letter details a payment for an insurance policy and is written on Southwest Virginia Institute for Young Ladies letterhead.","The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions\nmay apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for\nassistance in determining the use of these materials. 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Jones became the president of the company the next year, and the he and his brother Bolling Jones later founded what became the Birmingham Stove \u0026 Range Company in Birmingham, Alabama. Jones died on April 6, 1930, and is buried in the Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.","External Sources:","U.S. Federal Census, 1870-1880, 1900-1920.","University Catalogs, 1876-1878.","\"Mr. S.D. Jones,\" Box 18, Virginia Tech Alumni Association Alumni Cards, RG 29e, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.,  https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/VT/repositories_2_resources_3335.xml , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Samuel Dewes Jones\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109068797/samuel-dewes-jones , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Elizabeth Harrison Jones\", Findagrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109068923/elizabeth_jones , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Saml D. Jones\" in the Virginia, U.S., Birth Registers, 1853-1911, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/343248:62153 , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Sam D Jones\" in the Fulton and Campbell Counties, Georgia, Cemetery Records, 1857-1933, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/322420:61953 , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Forgotten Foundry: Birmingham Stove \u0026 Range\", Southern Cast Iron, November 17, 2021,  https://southerncastiron.com/forgotten-foundry-birmingham-stove-range/ , accessed May 15, 2024.","\"Samuel D. Jones\" in the Virginia, U.S., Marriage Registers, 1853-1935, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/430245:62154 , accessed April 26, 2024.","Henry C. Wysor was born to George Washington and Margaret Ann Wysor in October 21, 1847, in Washington County, Virginia. 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He died on August 7, 1927, in Dublin, Pulaski County, Virginia.","\nSources:","U.S. Federal Census, 1880, 1900-1920.","\"Henry Crockett Wysor\", FindAGrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38066024/henry-crockett-wysor , accessed April 26, 2024.","\"Mary Elizabeth Shipp Wysor\", FindAGrave.com,  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38064279/mary_elizabeth_wysor , accessed April 26, 2026.","\"Henry C Wysor\" in the U.S., Civil War Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Ancestry.com,  https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/676433:1555 , accessed April 26, 2024."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe guide to the Samuel D. Jones Letter to Henry C. 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Please contact Special Collections and University Archives (specref@vt.edu or 540-231-6308) if you need assistance with forms or to submit a completed form.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions\nmay apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for\nassistance in determining the use of these materials. ","Reproduction or\ndigitization of materials for personal or research use can be requested using\nour reproduction/digitization form:  http://bit.ly/scuareproduction .","Reproduction or digitization of materials for publication or exhibit use can\nbe requested using our publication/exhibition form:\n http://bit.ly/scuapublication . 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