Custis Parsons Jones (April 19, 1842 – January 1918), son of novelist John Beauchamp Jones, was ordained as an Episcopal clergyman in 1869. After serving in a number of dioceses on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., Jones spent the last years of his life in Baltimore, Maryland.
Custis Jones was the son of Confederate war department clerk John Beauchamp Jones. In 1864, Custis owned a mischievous pet parrot which was stealing from the family's meager ration of meat. General Robert E. Lee overheard the senior Jones telling another clerk about the animal, and thought of his daughter Mildred's troublesome pet Custis Morgan the squirrel. If the two animals met each other, it might solve both problems.[1]
