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Welcome to the Official Website of Historical Author Jacquelyn Cook

"Jacquelyn Cook is one of today's most popular
and best selling Christian authors."
                                                                          -- Lenore Persons, Editor, Guideposts Books

Sweeping across the nineteenth Century, it tells the true story of Thomas P. Jones and his wife Lavinia Young Jones. Beginning in 1827, this multi-generational saga of love, marriage, births, deaths,  recounts the perils of the Seminole War, the rising to great wealth, the plunging to poverty after the Civil War, and ultimately the rising again. Rich in detail, true in character, The Greenwood Legacy is written by an author born and bred in the South who grew up hearing these stories. Jacquelyn Cook knows these people. 

Thomas P. Jones, fourth son of a  Coastal Georgia aristocrat who leaves his entire plantation to his first-born son, vows that none of his children will ever feel second best. He takes his meager inheritance and buys land nobody wants in the Pine Barren wilderness that lies in southwestern Georgia between Thomasville, Georgia, and Tallahassee, Florida.

Lavinia Young Jones, from a social Savannah family, is his sixteen -year-old bride. As he brings her to the wilderness, Thomas questions whether or not she will be strong enough to endure, but when they have fallen, it is Lavinia's courage that brings this real family to rise again.

Greenwood, their elegant Greek Revival mansion, is the centerpiece from which they build a community of charm and culture that today consists of seventy lived-in antebellum plantations on 300,000 acres, unequaled anywhere in the United States. Here, President Dwight Eisenhower hunted quail. Jacqueline Kennedy sought sanctuary on Greenwood after the assassination of President John Kennedy. 

 In the 21st Century, hidden in virgin pines and wild orchids, Greenwood endures as will the story of Thomas and Lavinia Jones. 

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Greenwood Chapter 1