Ex-slave Wiley Jones of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) was the richest African American in the state at the time of his death in 1904. Shortly after the Civil War, he operated a saloon and invested the profits in real estate, eventually owning large tracts of land in several states. Jones, shown here in the 1880s, died of a heart attack and is buried in Jefferson County.
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