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Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) [1] was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II, and a number of his recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom.
A descendant of an old Long Island family, he was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York (then Queens, now Nassau County).He was the eldest son of Brig.-Gen. Thomas Floyd-Jones (1788–1851) and Cornelia Haring (née Jones) Floyd-Jones (1796–1839).
George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. [2]
A descendant of an old Long Island family, he was born at the family mansion on the Fort Neck estate in South Oyster Bay, New York (then Queens, now Nassau County). [1] He was the youngest son of Brig.-Gen. Thomas Floyd-Jones (1788–1851) and Cornelia Haring (née Jones) Floyd-Jones (1796–1839). [2]
Floyd-Jones is a surname. Notable people with the name include: David R. Floyd-Jones (1813–1871), American lawyer and politician; DeLancey Floyd-Jones (1826–1902), American brevet brigadier general in the U.S. Civil War; Edward Floyd-Jones (1823–1901), American politician; Elbert Floyd-Jones (1817–1901), American politician
Jones was taken by ambulance to Prisma Memorial Hospital in Greenville with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at 7:49 a.m., according to the Anderson County Coroner's Office.
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Jones was born to father Clinton Jones Sr., who renovated houses, and mother, Anita Banks, a guidance counselor, who died from cancer in 2006. [7] Jones' older brother, C. J. Jones, was a football player at University of Iowa and from 2003 to 2009 played as a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL).