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The Early Years (1858-1898) - Israel Lafayette Jones was born in 1858 in Raleigh, North Carolina. His father was Arter Jones, a farm laborer from North Carolina. Israel had a younger brother named Samuel, born in 1861. By 1880, Arter was married again to Caroline Jones, who was just one year younger than Israel. Israel's biological mother remains a mystery. While slave schedules cannot affirm whether or not Jones or his parents were born into slavery, in North Carolina around 1830, only one percent of the black population were freemen. By 1860 there were less than 40,000 freed blacks. In addition, in 1850, when his father would have been 23 years of age, seventy-five percent of all slaves were farm laborers.