The Jonesville Community on Old Pike Road in Mathews, named for wealthy landowner George Mathews from Olgethorp County, Ga., was designated by the Montgomery County Commission on October 16th, 2007 to honor the life and legacy of Prince Albert Jones Sr. and his family to the community. Born on April 25, 1916, and reared in the area, Jones devoted much of his nearly 92 years to helping people in Mathews and the surrounding communities of Cecil, Waugh, Pike Road, and Mt. Meigs. A farmer by trade, he supported his family and many of his neighbors with the crops he planted, and he used his tractors, balers, trucks, other farm equipment, and transportation to help others cultivate their crops and get them to market. He also voluntarily cared for several local cemeteries, including New Jerusalem on the grounds of the old Margaret Beard Elementary School and Gilmer Cemetery in nearby Pike Road, where he and many family members and former residents are buried. Jones was concerned about the common man and believed deeply in civil and voting rights. According to Morris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Jones was one of rural Montgomery's first registered black voters, at a time when fewer than 1 percent of the county's black residents were registered, and he used his good reputation with the white farming elite to help black neighbors and church members obtain the right to vote decades before the enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Jones was one of 15 children, and he and his wife Essie also reared 15 children while teaching their children and others in the community the importance of Christian living, education, hard work, and working with their minds as well as their hands.