{"id":46262,"date":"2016-03-27T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46262"},"modified":"2016-03-27T01:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T01:58:02","slug":"w-t-jones-carthages-best-kept-secret-from-slave-to-industrialist-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46262","title":{"rendered":"W.T. Jones \u2014 Carthage\u2019s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South"},"content":{"rendered":"

W.T. Jones \u2014 Carthage\u2019s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Courier-Tribune<\/a>
\nAshboro, North Carolina
\n2016-03-15<\/p>\n

Judi Brinegar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n(Contributed photo)<\/small><\/p>\n

He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners in Carthage<\/a>. He rubbed elbows with the elite, white, upper class in Moore County<\/a> during the 1880s, dined with them, threw elaborate holiday parties where most of the guests were white, and even attended church with them. Both of his wives, Sophia Isabella McLean and Florence Dockery were white. Dockery was the daughter of a well-to-do Apex family.<\/p>\n

Yet, until a decade ago, few in this small Moore County town acknowledged out loud that Jones was not a white man.<\/p>\n

Then, Pat Motz-Frazier entered the scene in 2005. She purchased Jones home, built in 1880 for his wife, Florence, and today runs it as a bed and breakfast, aptly named \u201cThe Old Buggy Inn<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe built this huge elaborate house because he and his wife wanted to fill it with children,\u201d Motz-Frazier says. \u201cUnfortunately, they never had any.\u201d<\/p>\n

Motz-Frazier ran into many brick walls while trying to research the history of her historic Victorian home. Many of those she asked, declined to acknowledge that Jones, president of the Tyson & Jones Buggy Company<\/a>, was anything but a white man, she says. Slowly and methodically, she finally put together the pieces of the puzzle of what was a remarkable story of Jones, one man who, in the 19th century, never let the color of his skin define him…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

W.T. Jones \u2014 Carthage\u2019s best-kept secret: From slave to industrialist in the South The Courier-Tribune Ashboro, North Carolina 2016-03-15 Judi Brinegar (Contributed photo) He was born the son of a slave and her white owner in 1833. By time time of his death in 1910, William T. Jones was one of the prominent business owners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,6462,6940,20],"tags":[9617,23328,23329,879,23330,23326,23331,23327,23325,9618],"class_list":["post-46262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-carthage","tag-courier-tribune","tag-judi-brinegar","tag-north-carolina","tag-pat-motz-frazier","tag-the-courier-tribune","tag-the-old-buggy-inn","tag-tyson-jones-buggy-company","tag-w-t-jones","tag-william-t-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46264,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46262\/revisions\/46264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}