Jr. (Charles Colcock) Charles C. Jones

Born in 1831, he became known as an attorney, writer, and civic leader in Georgia. He served as mayor of Savannah during the Civil War era and later built a reputation as a careful researcher of Southern history, especially the colonial and early state periods.

His books and essays focused on Georgia and the wider Southeast, including local history, biography, and Native American antiquities. He was especially valued for gathering documents, inscriptions, and historical details from scattered sources and turning them into readable studies.

He died in 1893, but his writing remained useful to later historians because of the amount of material he preserved. For listeners interested in older regional history, his work offers a window into how nineteenth-century scholars recorded the past of the South.