Legacy
Jones then began a long retirement in Dubuque. In 1892, he was granted a pension by special act of Congress for his services in the Black Hawk War. On his ninetieth birthday in 1894, Governor Frank D. Jackson and the Iowa General Assembly gave Jones a public reception in recognition of his valuable services in the formative periods of the Territory and State. He died in Dubuque on July 22, 1896.
Jones County, Iowa was named in his honor. In 1912, the State Historical Society of Iowa published the biography George Wallace Jones, by John Carl Parish.
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