When Thomas Jefferson Jones was born on 3 April 1855, in Corinth, Howard, Arkansas, United States, his father, Charles Wesley Jones, was 23 and his mother, Mary Jane Copeland, was 16. He married Melinda Jane Clingan on 6 December 1877, in Pike, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Ratliffe Township, Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 11 April 1946, in Hugo, Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States.