United States, Georgia, Bartow County, Cartersville, 34.16533, -84.802311708/2022According to family lore, the Methodist evangelist Sam Jones, a frequent traveler, was buried close to the railroad tracks behind Cartersville's Oak Hill Cemetery so that his tall marker could be seen by the engineers and conductors he had befriended. Jones's wife, Laura McElwain Jones, is buried beside him.Photograph of the Jones family burial plot in Cartersville, Georgia. Samuel P. Jones, the Methodist evangelist, is buried here. Marble stairs lead to the plot, which is surrounded by a short marble border. A tall marble obelisk rises among several smaller headstones.According to family lore, Sam Jones, a frequent traveler, was buried close to the railroad tracks behind Cartersville's Oak Hill Cemetery so that his tall marker could be seen by the engineers and conductors he had befriended. Jones's wife, Laura McElwain Jones, is buried beside him.Jones, or "just plain 'Sam Jones,'" as he preferred to be called, reached the peak of his popularity as an evangelical Methodist minister in the early 1880s.Rarely spending time at his home in Cartersville, Georgia, Jones preached his "quit your meanness" theology in cities across the United States. He was famous for his distaste for religious doctrine, preferring instead the simple directive of living a good life that was as sin-free as possible. He preached against the theater, "dime" novels, playing cards, baseball, and dances. His biggest campaign, though, was against alcohol.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/sam-jones-1847-1906Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/sam-jones-1847-1906Forms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaClergy--Georgia--CartersvilleMethodists--United StatesEvangelists--Georgia--CartersvilleSepulchral monuments--Georgia--CartersvilleObelisks--Georgia--CartersvilleStairs--Georgia--CartersvilleCemeteries--Georgia--CartersvilleJones, Sam P. (Sam Porter), 1847-1906--TombsJones, Sam P. (Sam Porter), 1847-1906Jones, Sam P., Mrs.Jones Family PlotStillImage