death_date death_place religion birth_place children parents birth_date spouse image article_title education name occupation
march 17,1909 columbus , georgia southern baptist louisa county , virginia 5 francis willian jones ann pendleton ashby jones september 25 , 1836 judith page helm john william jones dd.jpg j. william jones
 university of virginia the southern baptist theological seminary j. william jones preacher
j. william jones

j. william jones -lrb- 1836-1909 -rrb- was an american southern baptist preacher .
he served as a confederate chaplain during the american civil war of 1861-1865 .
later , he was campus minister at washington and lee university , the university of virginia and the university of north carolina at chapel hill .
he wrote many books about the lost cause and christianity .
