Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Jones, Robert Wilson May 1918
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, May 17, 1918
R. W. Jones Killed In Automobile Accident

News was received in Cairo last Tuesday afternoon of the death of Mr. R. W. 
Jones, who was killed in an automobile accident near Macon Tuesday morning.  
Mr. Jones owns one of the largest and best farms in the county, it being 
located in the Spence district.  He was one of the county's most prominent 
citizens and had many friends, who will regret to learn of his sudden demise.  
The funeral services were held Thursday morning at ten o'clock at the Methodist 
church in Pelham, Rev. Etheridge, of Baconton, conducting the last sad rites.  
The church was filled to its capacity with sorrowing relatives and friends, 
many being unable to enter.  He was laid to rest with Masonic honors, Pine 
Forest Lodge participating with Pelham Lodge.  Interment was in the Pelham 
cemetery.  Many from Cairo and Grady County were present.  Wednesday's 
Telegraph carried the following story of the unfortunate accident which 
resulted in Mr. Jones death and the injury to his children who were with him at 
the time of the accident.

"Robert Wilson Jones, aged 55 years, a well-known Grady County planter, was 
instantly killed yesterday morning near Seven Bridges, six miles south of 
Macon, when a car backing away from a gasoline filling station ran into one he 
was driving, turning it over and pinning him beneath.

Mr. Jones had been in Macon visiting his sister, Mrs. H. G. Bell, 215 First 
Street, and was returning to his home when the accident occured.  Three of Mr. 
Jones' children were in the car with him at the time, as well as his niece, 
Mrs. I. M. Marchant, and William Carter of Richland.  They escaped with slight 
bruises.

The accident occured on the Houston road, near Whiteside & Nash's store.

Mr. Jones is survived by four children, three sons, William, Robert and George 
Jones, and Miss Sara Jones, of near Pelham; brothers, Charles W. and Walter B. 
Jones of Doerun; J. M. Jones of Tifton; A. T. and H. H. Jones of Sale City; 
sisters, Mrs. Fannie Reese of Preston; Mrs. Gillie Daniel of Fitzgerald; Mrs. 
Mary Bell and Miss Anna Jones of Macon.  The body will be taken this 
(Wednesday) morning at 11:50 to Pelham where the funeral services and interment 
will take place Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. 

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