Book excerpt from: "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Sandusky and Ottawa, Ohio, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Settled Families" Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1896.
"...At about the age of sixteen years, Samuel F. Jones left the home farm in Seneca county and came to Sandusky, where for ten years he engaged in farming. He then began railroading at Sandusky City, and for ten years ran an express train engine on the Baltimore & Ohio road (then the old Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark railroad). From the locomotive, Mr Jones stepped down to the farm in Green Creek township, which he has ever since operated. On October 30, 1854, he was married to Miss Ellen M. Almond, who was born in New Jersey August 3, 1832, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Lachlison) Almond. To Mr. and Mrs. Jones four children have come, as follows: Alice, born in May, 1860, wife of W.B. Lay; Lawrence, senior member of the Cutlery Works Col, who married Miss Jessie Russel, a cousin of Gen. McPherson, and has three children–Lamar, Margaret and Maurine; Nellie, at home; and Robert, engaged in the cutlery business at Clyde, who on October 18, 1894, wedded Miss Ione Smith, and has one child–Dorothy. Mr Jones has ninety-eight and one-half acres of fertile, well improved and very productive land, well tilled and laid out in fine fruits, and is engaged in general farming and fruit growing, raising wheat, oats, potatoes, etc.; and all the buildings and improvements that now are upon the place were put there by his own hands."
NOTE: Ellen M. Almond is the niece of Edward and Ann Salisbury. Mary (Lachlison) Almond is the sister of Ann Salisbury.
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