Sarah Rebecca Taylor Jones, a daughter of Union General Joseph Pannell Taylor, brother of President Zachary Taylor, married David Rumph Jones, a Civil War Confederate major general.
DAVID RUMPH JONES
BIRTH: 5 April 1825, Orangeburg County, South Carolina
DEATH: 20 January 1863 (aged 37), Richmond, Virginia
BURIAL: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Born in South Carolina, but family moved to Georgia from where he was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy on July 1, 1842. He graduated in 1846, placing 46th out of a class of 59. Among his classmates were future Confederate general Stonewall Jackson and Union general George B. McClellan.
--Old Secesh
