Grace married Laurence C. Jones in
Iowa City in 1912, becoming an Executive Secretary and teacher of English Jones recalled his first impression of Grace in
Piney Woods and Its Story (1922), writing that he 'thought her the brightest and most enthusiastic little woman of my race that I had ever met. I saw in her my ideal and felt sure that we should meet again some day—and we did.
The Crisis described her as having 'proved her fitness to share in his ambitions by a number of years' service in successful teaching' and Jones himself noted in 1922 that it was:...largely by reason of her energy and skill, her devotion and enthusiasm, that we have been able to accomplish more within the last few years than in any previous years in the history of the school. Building on her earlier fundraising experience, and dismayed by the situation of students without money for tuition, Jones sought to raise money for Piney Woods through lecture tours throughout the US. Performances by the group were followed by telling the Piney Woods story, after which donations were collected. She was also a President of the Women's Christian Union, and, in 1925, served as a statistician for the
National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Jones worked actively to improve the lives of women and children of color, using the women's clubs to promote education, provide resources, and improve child care. She was also active in efforts for prison reform in Mississippi, and was instrumental in the building of a reform school to prevent black youth being incarcerated in adult facilities with hardened criminals. This was the
Margaret Murray Washington Home for Delinquent Youths. Grace Jones also worked, with success, for the Mississippi Board of Education to include African American history in the teaching of state and national history. She was also instrumental in achieving State provision of libraries for African American public schools, and in establishing a school for blind black students. == Death and legacy ==