The above picture shows a group at the Lucinda Chapel Baptist Church, Lawrence Co., Ohio, ca. in the late 1890s. The lower left, home of John and Lucinda (Webb) Jones on Wolf Creek (built ca.1810). Bottom right, raising the bell ca. 1920 at Lucinda Chapel Baptist Church, named in honor of Lucinda (Webb) Jones.
Lucinda and John were of Virginian ancestry. They had nine children born to them while living in the log house on Wolf Creek, Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio. This cabin stood for more than 120 years. For many years, the Wolf Creek Regular Baptist Church had services in John and Lucinda's cabin home.
After John's death, the congregation moved to a new log building, the Lucinda Chapel. Around 1915, the log church was dismantled, the logs were sawed into lumber, and a new frame church building was built. That building burned in the 1970s, and a brick one replaced it. The log house finally served as a chicken house.
Lucinda, John, and the children were very religious and lived as a typical frontier family. They were farmers, carpenters, blacksmiths, and coopers and are believed to have had the first undertaker’s business in Athalia. One son was a doctor, and another was a minister. John and Lucinda were also land speculators. They once owned land from the Ohio River, across Tick Ridge, and Wolf Creek to the Windsor Township line. They built and owned several houses at Chili Point, near Athalia, some of which washed away in the 1913 flood.
Lucinda died ca. 27 Mar 1894 and is buried in the Jones Cemetery on Tick Ridge, Rome Township.
Source: Webb Family of Bearwallow Ridge, Compiled by David G. Webb, Jr.
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