Bob Jones, Sr.


Robert Reynolds Bob Jones, Sr. was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.

By the time Jones was 17, both his father and mother were dead. In 1905, Jones married Bernice Sheffield, who contracted tuberculosis and died within ten months of their marriage. On June 17, 1908, he married Mary Gaston Stollenwerck, whom he had met as a choir member during a meeting he was conducting in Uniontown, Alabama. Their only child, Bob Jones, Jr. was born October 19, 1911 in Montgomery, where they made their home. Mary Gaston Jones died on May 12, 1989 in her 101st year83 years after the death of her husbands first wife.

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