Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Sallie Cargill Jones November 8 1908
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, November 12, 1908 
Sallie Cargill Jones died at her home in Camden, at 11 o'clock Sunday night 
November 8th, 1908. Miss Jones was a member of one of Camden's first and most 
highly esteemed families. She was born in Virginia, Oct. 13, 1835, but most of 
her life was spent here, her father John Cargill Jones Jones moving here in 
1845. She is survived by a brother, Col. Ed N. Jones of Camden and a sister, 
Mrs. Kate Jones Richardson of Tuscaloosa. Reared in a christian home she gave 
promise early in life of the woman of noble worth and influential force and 
grace which in after years she became.
  At the time of her death she was an Honorary President of the Daughters of 
the Confederacy, and had always taken a prominent part in advancing and keeping 
alive the memory of the "Lost Cause." She was a prime mover in erecting the 
monument in Camden cemetery to the Confederate dead who gave their lives a 
willing sacrifice on the alter of their country and native land. She organized 
the first Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, and in the state 
organization hers was the charter Chapter and she was chosen its first 
president.
  She was a life time member of the Baptist church, an untiring church worker 
and zealous for every cause for good. In the absence of the Baptist minister 
her funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. P. Sanders and were largely 
attended. The interment occurred in Camden cemetery Monday afternoon at 3 
o'clock.
  In the early dawn of her life there were marks and evidences that hers was no 
ordinary mind, but of that incisiveness and strength and mental brightness that 
placed her in the higher ranks and made her foremost among her sex. Her natural 
gifts and tastes were cultivated and in polish and finish she was so equipped 
that the product of her pen and brush were used with intelligence and skill, 
her mind, with readiness and aptitude moving along the higher altitudes and in 
the broader spheres of thought and knowledge.
  Alike also, was she possessed of a grace, strength and modesty which easily 
won for her position in society and made her the equal always of the ready and 
skillful, the wise and tactful in the promotion of any worthy cause, yet 
modestly feminine and possessed of the graces and refinements of true womanhood 
and withal, so brave and courageous as to never tire nor to abandon what she 
undertook to do. Her life was truly one of sacrifice: the poor, the suffering 
and needy had a large share in the labors of her hands and heart. The 
friendless and the orphans elicited from her, the deepest concern and her long 
and useful life was spent largely for others.
  But it was in another sphere that her beautiful life was particularly 
conspicuous. This was as a lover and heroine of the "Lost Cause," a cause 
sacred and dear to every Southern heart. For more than forty years she has 
striven with untiring energy to bind in indisoluble bonds the memory of deeds 
of love and heroism.
  With womanly grace Miss Sallie Jones fostered, led and sustained to her dying 
day the fame of men who sleep in honored graves and whose memory ...... to her 
but the gateway unto the "Better Land." 


Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, November 26, 1908
Tribute to Miss Sallie Jones.
Tuscaloosa Times Gazette.
  In the death of Miss Sallie Jones the State has lost a lovely character. A 
teacher for several years, a writer of meritorious verse, a daughter of the 
Confederacy whom all daughters delighted to honor, she was a rare, sweet woman, 
one who exerted a wide influence along the best lines and there are many who 
will grieve at her death. The world is better for such women as Miss Sallie 
Jones.

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Wilcox Progressive Era article from November 12, 1908. Missing lines are 
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