Hiram King Jones was a son of Robert Jones and Elizabeth McGuffey Jones. He was named for his uncle, Hiram King.
He married Mary Caroline Justus in 1839. The couple had 13 children. He was a farmer. The family also had a saw mill and lumber business that furnished much of the lumber for 1800s homes in Flat Rock. He was also a trader and land speculator. He loaned people money and before the Civil War would sometimes take payment in slaves. He owned a large amount of land along the Green River and Big Hungry River and into the Upward community. Much of the land he once owned is now owned by the N.C. Game Lands and Duke Power Co. He owned land along the French Broad River which was sold to the Shipman family. He also owned land in the Pink Beds area of what is now Pisgah National Forest.He raised his family along land bordering the Big Hungry River. The log home is still in existence. His daughter, Emily Morrison, raised her family in it. It was later sold to the Upward Community Club and placed along U.S. 176 as a place for the club to sell plants and crafts. Later it was bought by a private individual and moved to where it is located at present near the intersection of U.S. 25 South and Shepherd Street. Hiram King Jones had three out-of-wedlock sons with Oney Caroline Johnson. He later lived with Sarah Elmina Stepp on his land in the Pink Beds section of today’s Pisgah National Forest. The couple married on Oct. 27, 1887, in Transylvania County after the death of his wife.

(Please note that his first wife, Mary Caroline Justus Jones, does not have a grave site in this cemetery, despite what a recently placed new head stone implies).

Bio by Jennie Jones Giles (#48363002)gr gr granddaughter