​Dr. Samuel J. and Charlotte H. Jones

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Marker No: 12600

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.937067, -97.532166

Location: ​Salado Cemetery (Old Salado Graveyard) on Baines Street, Salado

Marker Text: ​Educators Samuel Jackson (1858-1918) and Charlotte Hallaran (d. 1904) Jones taught at Salado College in 1884-1885. In 1890, the Jones opened Thomas Arnold High School in the former Salado College buildings, Charlotte died in 1904, leaving five young children, but S.J. Jones remained as head of the private school until 1913. In 1915, Gov. James E. Ferguson, a former student at Salado College, appointed Jones to the University of Texas Board of Regents. Embroiled in the governor's controversy with that board early in Ferguson's second term of office, Jones was removed from his position as regent in 1917. He died the following year at his daughter's home in Virginia. (2001)