"AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF ANDREW JONES"
by Dwight McWhorter"

"Late one November afternoon in 1864, two men came to the Andrew Jones farm asking for food and shelter for the night. At that time in Pickens County, very few people would refuse anyone who asked for help. Andrew, gave them food and allowed them to sleep in the little room on the end of the porch.
The two men were later arrested as army deserters and confessed that Andrew had given them food and shelter. When a gang of unofficial Home Guards came to arrest Andrew , they built a big fire in the yard and camped overnight. They tied Andrew with a rope, then drank moonshine, sang and danced around the fire all night. One old man with a pegleg who played the fiddle, laughed and taunted Andrew telling him how they were going to hang him.
After that night, Andrew's family could never bear the sound of a fiddle. Two or three days went by before the family learned that he had been taken to a spot several miles Southwest of Canton on the Etowah river.
Andrew's daughter-in-law, Lydia Striplin Jones, and his daughter Piety made the trip in an oxcart. When they arrived, they found Andrew's body still hanging by a rope. The two women could not lift his body and there was no one to help. They backed the oxcart under the body and cut it down into the cart.
The round trip took five days

HERE IS ANOTHER ACCOUNT
written by Effie Poole:




This is the story my grandmother, Elizabeth Dunnegan Mullins. told me. She was about 16 years old when the Civil War was on. One day, her granny sent her to the house to churn. The milk was too cold, so Elizabeth called for her granny to bring some hot water.
Suddenly, some members of an outlaw gang appeared, dragging two men behind them. She recognized one of them as Andrew Jones, but could not identify the other man. The hands of both men were bound behind their backs. They were dragged by a rope tied to the saddle horn of one of the horses.
The outlaws demanded food and some of the milk being used for churning. While they were eating, Elizabeth took some of the cold milk to Andrew Jones and the other man to drink. One of the outlaws saw her and cursed her for trying to give them milk.
Elizabeth always remembered and always told how Andrew and the other man looked with their tongues swollen almost out of their mouths and the horrible expressions they had on their faces.

Source for the two preceding stories: Debbie Allen






The maiden name for his second wife Permelia is "Moss"