Baker-Dougherty County GaArchives News.....Death of Col. John Jones June 18 1845 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lindy Hard ssautyvalleyfarm@worldnet.att.net December 4, 2003, 9:29 am Albany Patriot [newspaper] microfilm Apr 16 1845-Nov 1847 It becomes our painful duty this week to announce the death of our friend and neighbor, Col. JOHN JONES, late Editor and Proprietor of the Albany Courier. He died at his residence on the morning of the 11th inst., between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock. His disease was congestion of the brain.—The death of Col. Jones has produced a general feeling of sorrow and gloom thro’- out our whold community. Our town had been remarkably healthy for more than a year.—No alarming case of sickness existed any where in our vicinity. His sudden and unexpected death has most forcibly demonstrated to us the uncertainty of all earthly prospects. He had been married little more than a year to a very interesting and accomplished lady, and had as fair prospects for a long and happy life as any man in the circle of our acquaintance; but the destroyer came, and behold the change. His devoted wife, once so happy, is now a disconsolate widow—his child, the object of his fondest care, is left an orphan, and his large circle of friends feel that there is a blank in their society which will not be easily filled. In his intercourse with society, Col. Jones was kind and agreeable, and had many warm friends. If he had one personal enemy, we do not know it. We have extracted the following account of his funeral from the last Courier. “When such friends part, ‘tis the survivor dies.” The late Editor of this paper is no more. He expired at his family residence on Pine street, Wednesday morning last, between the hours of 1 and 2 o’clock, after a short, but severe attack of inflamation of the brain. His remains were interred in the burial ground of this place, at six o’clock on the evening of the same day, and his best eulogy is to be found in the honors which were paid to his memory. At four o’clock, on the evening of Wednesday, Albany Lodge, No. 24, and a larger concourse of citizens of both sexes than ever convened in our town on a similar occasion, assembled at the residence of the deceased, to attend the prepatory obituary services. Those solemn rites were performed by the Rev. E. L. T. BLAKE, the Preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church of our city, in a manner peculiarly suited to the occasion. His eloquent discourse was listened to with the most profound attention, and as he depicted, in gospel language, the many virtues of the deceased, and emphatically pointed out to the living, the fearful isthinus upon which they stood—that “Narrow isthmus that divides Time from Eternity,” there was not one of the large assembly present, insensible to the divine truths that fell from his lips. This deeply impressive ceremony having closed, the funeral pocession moved in the following order of arrangement: ALBANY LODGE, No. 24. The Clergy and attending Physicians, THE HEARSE: SUPPORTED BY PALL-BEARERS; The Lady of the deceased, relatives and friends, Ex-Mayor and Members of Council, Editorial and Typographical Corps of the Patriot and Courier, CITIZENS, AND STRANGERS, GENERALLY, Having reached the burying ground, the beautiful and impressive ceremonies of the Lodge, of which Col. JONES was a bright and worthy brother, closed the melancholy duties of the day—and as the last prayer was pronounced, and the last hymn died away amid the mournful murmers of the majestic Pinery that overshadows our Cemetery, many a silent and heartfelt tear exhaled its sympathy and went to Heaven. Additional Comments: There were two newspapers being published in Albany June 1845. John Jones was editor & proprietor of the Albany Patriot. Nelson Tift & Seth N Boughton were editors & proprietors of The Albany Patriot. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb