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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	393
1840 brought to near Carrolltown, Cambria county, where Mr. Williams died the following year. The death of this protector resulted in his being apprenticed to Evan H. Roberts, of near Ebensburg, with whom he remained until he was eighteen years of age. He then commenced the battle of life for himself, with nothing but strong hands and fixed determination to succeed as his stock in trade. He accepted any kind of work that came to his hands until he had saved enough to invest in a team. He rented a farm, in 1857, which he tilled up to August 31, 1864, when he enlisted in Company C, Two Hundred and Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry. He saw service off the coast of the Bermuda Islands, and was then transferred to the Ninth Corps of the Army of the Potomac, where he was a teamster until the surrender of Lee. Shortly after this he was sent north, and was honorably discharged at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June, 1865.     Returning from the army, he was employed in driving a team for Hon. A. A. Barker for nearly twenty years, then rented a farm from the same gentleman, which, in association with his son William G., he purchased a year later, and on which he lived until his death, October, 1904. This farm is a little distance southwest from Ebensburg, is well improved, and contains at the present time seventy-six acres. He was a general farmer, and was successful in every line of his business, from grazing to raising cereals. He was a member of the First Congregational Church of Ebensburg, and had served as deacon for very many years. He was a stanch Republican in his political principles, and served for nine years as a member of the borough council of Ebensburg. At the time of his death he was serving his third term as director of the poor for Cambria county. Active in his political party, useful in his church, and efficient in the fraternal organizations with which he affiliated, Mr. Jones was appreciated as a public official, and respected and esteemed as a man and neighbor. He was a member of the following organizations: Past grand of Highland Lodge. No. 428, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Ebensburg, in which he enjoyed the distinction of being the eldest initiate member, having joined in 1854, soon after its organization; member of Dr. John M. Jones Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ebensburg.     He married, December 31, 1857, Martha Williams, daughter of William G. Williams, one of the early Welsh settlers of this community, of near Ebensburg, and they had children: 1. Chalmers C., formerly bookkeeper for the firm of J. T. & W. Griffith, of Kane, McKean county, Pennsylvania, now hardware merchant at same place; 2. Elizabeth, married Hershel J. James, of Kane, McKean county, Pennsylvania; 3. Dr. Fremont C., of whom later; 4. William G., a farmer in Cambria township, Cambria county, Pennsylvania; 5. Anna M., teacher in Ebensburg public schools; 6. Professor Herman T., county superintendent of Ebensburg public schools; 7. Leonard S., educated at the Millersville (Pennsylvania) State Normal school, is principal of Hastings schools; 8 and 9, Frederick and Ruth (twins), the former a steam fitter in Ebensburg, the latter deceased.     Fremont C. Jones, M. D., second son and third child of Thomas L. and Martha (Williams) Jones, was born in Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1861. His youth was spent under the parental roof, and he obtained his earlier education in the public schools of Ebensburg and under the private tutelage of Rev. Thomas R. Jones, of Ebensburg. He commenced teaching at the age of eighteen years, and continued this for two terms. In the spring of 1881, he

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