Vinkler R. Jones
Vinkler R. Jones was born around 1827 in North Carolina to Tignal and Amelia Jones. His father was a county magistrate. The family lived in Wake County, North Carolina, and by 1850, they owned $1,250 of real estate. His father died on March 31, 1850, and the family moved to Texas by the mid-1850s. He married Laura J. Doxey on December 23, 1856, and they had at least one child. He enlisted in the Confederate army, and he mustered in as a corporal in Company A of the 9th Texas Infantry on October 19, 1861. He was promoted to sergeant in January 1862, and he mustered out on April 24, 1862. He probably died in July 1865.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4847) | Jones, Vinkler R. | 1827 | 1865-07 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Corporal
- Rank out: Sergeant
- Rank highest: Sergeant
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (4227) [writer] ~ Vinkler R. Jones to John P. Jones, undated
People - Records: 1
- (5488) Jones, John Pride is the [sibling of] (4847) Jones, Vinkler R.
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (1220) [enlisted] [A] ~ 9th Texas Infantry (6 months)
SOURCES
1850 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of V. R. Jones, available from Ancestry.com; Texas Marriage Index, 1824-2019, available from Ancestry.com; The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, NC), 10 April 1850; Bastrop (TX) Advertiser, 25 January 1879
