This is the family cemetery of Mathias Jones (1779-1829), a planter, merchant, and state representative from 1814 to 1817, who moved from Virginia to Ridge Spring, then in Edgefield District, about 1800. He, his wife Clara Perry Jones (1786-1841), and four of their twelve children are buried here, and the 1887 will of their daughter Elizabeth Watson created an endowment for perpetual maintenance. Gen. James Jones (1805-1865), son of Mathias and Clara Jones, is also buried here. A partner in textile mills at Graniteville and Vaucluse, he was chairman of commissioners to build the State House from 1855 to 1861, served as adjutant and inspector general from 1836 to 1841, chairman of the board of visitors of the Citadel and the Arsenal Academy from 1842 to 1865, and state quartermaster general from 1863 to 1865.