Beverly Jones, physician and planter, son of Gabriel de Remi Jones and Mary Bryant Jones of Martinsville, Va., was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He practiced first in Germantown, N.C., and later in Bethania, N.C. Jones built Oak Grove in Bethania after his marriage (ca. 1843) to Julia Amelia Conrad, daughter of Phillipina Lash and her second husband, Abram Conrad. The couple had ten children: Abraham G. (Abram), physician and druggist in Walnut Grove, N.C.; James B. (1846-1911), a minister of the Disciples of Christ and president of William Woods College in Missouri; Alexander C.; Robert H., a dentist; Erastus B., a lawyer in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Virginia, who married a Mr. Sullivan; Ella, Julia, Kate, and Lucien, all unmarried, who remained at Oak Grove, where Lucien ran the farming operations.
From the guide to the Jones Family Papers, 1801-1932, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
