Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-11-05
Tazcwcll's Oldest Citizen Celebrates
10th Birthday.
(Communicated.)

NCoHlinunlcatcd.)
Mr.. Jubal Jones, who resides with
his son, William Jones, near Five
Oaks, recently celebrated his 1O6th
birthday. He was born in 1909. the
closing year of President Jefferson's
second administration. Mr.. Jones is
Il temperate man avoiding the use of
DRINKS. 1t is safe to say he has made
more rails and cleared more land than
any man who ever lived in Ameri-
ca. Uncle Jubal has lived pure
life, he is called Il good man by his
neighbors. At his birth the Unit
ed States was beginning to take pos
session of the Louisiana territory.
When he was born practically all of
the immense region west of the Miss
lssippi was Il wilderness. Then St.
Louis was only Il cluster of log hous-
es, the present site of the populous
city of Chicago II dreary swamp.
Mr.. Jones was three years of age
when the war of 1912 began, and a
school boy of six when General An
drew jackson gained the brilliant vic
tory of New Orleans. lie was a lad of
three when the United States war
snip, commanded by Captain Isaac
Hull, defeated and destroyed the
British ship, Guerrero Within his
memory the captain of the Chesapeake
uttered the inspiring words, "Don't
give up the ship; fight her till she
sinks" Our aged citizen was a two
year old boy when General VIM.
Henry HARRISON gained the victory
OF Tlppacanoe on the Wabash river in
Indiana. He was three years old
when Louisiana became Il State. i'm
1872. When General VIM. IL. Har-
risson defeated the British and In
dians on the Thames River in Canada.
where the Indian chief, Tecumseh was
killed, Mr.. Jones was ii ruddy lad of
Tour The next year we heard of
Commodore Peary's decisive victory
on Lake Eric. In this eventful wear
1913, came the tidings of the Indian
massacre ut Fort Minis in Alabama,
and General Jackson's victory over
the Indians at Horseshoe bend.
When Mr.. Jones was five years OLD
General Jacob Brown and Winfield
Scott gained the victory of Chime
wa and Lundy' Lane in Canada.
In the same year, 1911, Comodoro
McDonnough defeated British fleet
at Plattsburg on Lake Champagne.
The burning of Washington by the
British, the defeat of the British ar
my near Baltimore and the repulso
Of the British fleet at Fort McHenr,
were battles Mr.. Jones heard of il
1914.
When he was born the United
States consisted of seventeen states
If Mr.. Jones had spent his entire
life in Washington he could have
seen every President of the United
States, from President Madison tc
President Wilson.
All OF the wars the United States
has engaged in, except the revolution
have occurred within the memory nj
this aged Virginian. Mr.. Jones wa.
seventeen when Thomas Jefferson an,
John Adams died on July 4, 1896.
lie has witnessed the Introduction
of the railroad, the telegraph, the tele.
phone, percussion caps, matches. the
introduction of electric railways, cleo.
trio motors, the invention of the au-
tomobile, the bicycle, the motor cycle
noiseless firearms the aeropanes.
the airship, the use of painless surg
cry, the introduction of the steam
printing press, the electric printing
press, the introduction of coal, nat
ural gas, radium, electric lights, X
Kay, dynamite, the submarine, the
power loom, sewing machine, cook
stove, wireless telegraphy and the
wirless telephone.
AT this writing, Mr.. Jones health
is excellent for one of his age. Even
now he can walk several miles a dav.
When Mr.. Jones was five years of
age, Napoleon Bonaparte was at the
height of his glory. Mr.. Jones mem
DRY runs back to Napoleons Russian
campaign; the defeat of Napoleon
IN the battle of the Nations in 1914:
his miniature kingdom in Elba. his
defeat at Waterloo in 1915; his ban
ishment to st. Helena and the death
OF Napoleon Bonaparte.
MIR. Jones would be pleased to re-
ceive greeting from the President