Clay County GA Archives Obituaries Mr. Joshua Jones 1903

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Fort Gaines Sentinel 3 July 1903 [Fort Gaines, Clay Co GA]
"Our Editor Dead.

On Wednesday night of last seek, June 28th, at 11 o'clock, Mr. Joshua Jones, editor 
of the Fort Gaines Sentinel, passed away from earth at his home here, surrounded 
by a sorrowing family and a number of devoted friends. For more than eighteen months 
his hold on life had been most precarious, and his sufferings sometimes of the most 
terrible character; his immediate friends expecting death to end his suffering at 
almost any time......To know Josh Jones personally, was to love him...........

Below we publish an editorial utterance from the Calhoun County Courier, of which 
paper he was editor and manager at the time of his death."

"EDITOR JONES DEAD. The Press of the State Looses One of its Prominent Members.

Mr. Joshua Jones, editor of The Courier, after an illness of several days died at 
his home in Fort Gaines, surrounded by his family last Wednesday night at 
10:55 o'clock.

His death was the result of the illness (Bright's disease) which had been at work 
undermining his constitution for a number of years, which had become too much 
impaired to recuperated and he gradually sank until the end came to relieve him of 
his worldly cares.

Mr. Jones was a native Georgian born in this state in 1858, and was perhaps one of 
the best known newspaper men in the state, having been more or less in that calling 
all his life, during which time he was thrown in contact with the men who have made 
the history of the state for the past half century. He had been in the newspaper 
business nearly all his mature years, having founded a paper at Phoenix City, Ala, 
one at Leary, this county, The Bluffton Springs at Bluffton, The Fort Gaines 
Sentinel at Fort Gaines and The Calhoun County Courier in this city, the latter 
two being under his able management at the time of his death. Mr Jones leaves a 
wife and six children, a mother, two sisters and a brother to mourn his demise.

The remains were interred in Park Cemetery in Fort Gaines with Masonic honors 
Thursday afternoon at five o'clock.
In the death of Editor Joshua Jones the state press looses one of its most prominent 
members and also leaves a vacancy in the editorial sanctums then occupied by him which
will be hard to fill.
His numerous friends all over the state deeply sympathize with the bereaved 
family.--Calhoun County Courier."