J. T. Jones Ledger

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Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Newman Library
Virginia Tech
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Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], J. T. Jones Ledger, Ms1990-018, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Cubic Feet 1 folder
Creator:
Jones, J. T.
Abstract:
Ledger of James Taswell Jones (1890-1945), a Blacksburg, Virginia meat cutter, containing payment transactions on accounts of customers, including C. W. Black, C. E. Bodell, F. B. Eames, J. K. Groseclose, Y. B. Keister, and H. L. Price.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], J. T. Jones Ledger, Ms1990-018, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of a single ledger maintained by J. T. Jones of Blacksburg, Virginia, containing entries relating to customer payment transactions, probably connected to a meat market operated by Jones. Among the names of customers are those of C. W. Black, F. B. Eames, J. K. Groseclose, Y. B. Keister, W. M. Lybrook, and H. L. Price. A few of the entries indicate payments made in goods (chickens, eggs, cherries) rather than cash.

Biographical / historical:

James Taswell Jones, the son of Darius M. and Amanda Lee "Mattie" Palmer Jones, was born in Floyd County, Virginia on December 14, 1890. The 1900 census lists 10-year-old James T. Jones among the four Jones children living in the Christiansburg (Montgomery County), Virginia home of D. M. and Mattie Jones. On May 10, 1916, Jones married Rose Drouillard (1893-1916) in Wayne County, Michigan. In the 1930 federal census, James T. Jones appears as a 39-year-old meat cutter, living in Blacksburg (Montgomery County), Virginia with 37-year-old wife Rose W. Jones and five children, ranging in age from 2 to 13 years, all of them having been born in Virginia, with the exception of the youngest, born in West Virginia. By 1935, the Joneses were living in Durham, North Carolina; the 1940 census records them as residents of Wayne (Wyandotte County), Michigan, with James Jones still employed as a meat cutter. The Joneses divorced on March 30, 1944; James Jones returned to Virginia, where he continued working as a meat cutter for Star Market in Christiansburg. James T. Jones died in Pulaski, Virginia on November 20, 1945, and was buried in Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg.

Acquisition information:
The J. T. Jones Ledger was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in 1990.
Processing information:

The processing and description of the J. T. Jones Ledger commenced and was completed in August, 2022.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard