ALMOND JONES
Page 178

The subject of this sketch is a well-to-do, unostentatious farmer, residing in the vicinity of the well-known locality of McHarry's mill. Prominent among his neighbors are Peter Ringhouse, Aaron Pollard, Pollard Anno and Charles Howell. The McHarry mill site before referred to, was entered and improved by Julius Jones, the father of Almond, and some years deceased, and sold to McHarry about the year 1846. It is the purpose of this personal sketch to note the prominent characteristics of the individuals to which they refer, and to hand down to the future, those who now stand prominent as citizens our county, and representative men. To describe the character of the individual whose name is at the head of the notes, our first impress is set forth briefly in three words, to-wit: an honest man. Comment would be useless verbiage, superfluous and unmeaning. We will close this brief note by a quotation addressed to the subject of these remarks, ziz: "Pardon the freedom I have taken, And if impertinent I've been, Impute it not, good sir, to one Whose heart ne'er wronged you, But to his utmost would befriend Aught that belonged to you."

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