John Craven Jones with his wife Almira (Scott) Jones (1885)

During a visit to Ohio, John met Almira Scott (1851 – 1923), a fellow graduate of Oberlin College, and a person of like mind. Almira Scott was widowed and had three children. In 1882, they were married.  John was 48. John and Almira settled in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their integrity flowed through the generations to come. Their grandson Waldo C. Faulkner was the second African American city councillor in Greensboro from 1951 to 1963, and his wife Margaret (Evans) Faulkner, who taught Jesse Jackson at North Carolina A&T in the early 1960s, was co-chair for Shirley Chisholm’s campaign for Presidency in 1972.