From JONES OF JONESVILLE by Vivian Lyon Moore Elkanah Jones came to Painesville and made his home with relatives there for the remained of his life. He was a great favorite with them all and a most interesting personality. His diaries kept through the Revolution and later are still in exictence and offer fascinating reading. They are too voluminous to reproduce. but we may dip into them and acquaint ourselves with his generosity, Popularity and all around likeableness. He was a cabinet maker by trade "Still the wonder grew how one small head could harbor all he knew " As a mariner, veterinary, carpenter, nurse, stone mason, tailor and store keeper. He served during the Revolution as a private in the Conneticut troops. ( more of his diary and history in Jones of Jonesville by Moore pg 9-10 ) ---------------------------------------------------------------HI STORY OF GUILDFORD AND MADISON, CONN He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was living with his brother in Mid. in 1790 ---------------------------------------------------------------- From notes by R.M.Powers Jr. in 1849 Uncle Elkanah dies after living in an honored place in the home of his niece, Abigail. He was a general-do-it-all type and was considered the Medicine man of the area and concocted medicines for man or beast.
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He never married, received a pension as a Revolutionary War veteran in 1840 He lived his last years with Jonathan Goldsmith and wife Abigail ( his neice )..
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Another sourse of material on Elkanah Jones which duplicaded the above materials in great part is SOLDIERS AND WIDOWS O F THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WHO LIVED IN LAKE COUNTY OHIO by Mildred E. Hoyes Steed published by the New Conneticut Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Painesville, Ohio in 1985.