Owen Jones Collection

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Diaries (1863-1887, 1918-1920), reflecting Jones's 100 days spent in the Civil War, serving with Company F, 171st Ohio Volunteers (partially on guard duty at Johnson Island Prison), building and carpentry work, deaths of relatives and friends, banking, farming, participation in church and community affairs, reunions of the Jones and Evans families and other Welsh Americans, social life, and the weather; political memorabilia, including handbill on the 1867 election of Rutherford B. Hayes as governor and clippings concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; advertisements, clippings, photographs, and other enclosures from the diaries; materials relating to First National Bank, Newton Falls, Ohio and other local banks; deeds, contracts, certificates, and other documents of the Jones, Evans, and Davis families; pension papers; several artifacts; and records of G.A.R. Post #310, Newton Falls, of which Jones was last surviving member, including speeches made to the local Woman's Relief Corps.