John Jones was born in Lincoln County, Georgia on November 19, 1802. A plantation owner and cotton merchant, in 1824 he married Elizabeth Strozier, the granddaughter of Peter and Margaret Strozier. In 1842 he made a sworn affidavit in support of Margaret Strozier's pension claim. He attested that he believed her to be a widow of the a soldier who had served in the American Revolution. He died in Fulton County, Georgia on February 17, 1874.