Obituaries: Martha Ann Caroline McCarty Jones, 1932, Winn Parish, LA Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From: May 19, 1932 Winn Parish Enterprise Mrs. W. T. Jones, 98 Years, Buried At Zion Hill Deceased Was Known As "Grandma Jones," And Was Oldest Person In This Section The oldest person in this section, Mrs. W. T. Jones, age 98 years, 5 months, and 10 days, was buried in the presence of a host of sorrowing relatives and friends at the Zion Hill Cemetery, Monday, May 16, 1932. She held membership with the Zion Hill Church for 73 years, having joined this little Baptist Church when she and her husband moved to this state and settled in Winn Parish on Kyiche Creek, six miles west of Dodson. The old family home is still intact. Before her marriage to William Tunley Jones, in Jasper County, Miss., on Nov. 9, 1851, she was Miss Martha Ann Caroline McCarty, born December 5, 1833. They were married be a famous Mississippi Circuit rider Elder, Nathan L. Clark. Her husband answered the call for volunteers in the Civil War and Grandma Jones was left at home with five small children. She plowed, sheared sheep, attended the children, and struggled through the perilous Civil War days as did many brave souls. Then in the latter days her husband, who died February 14, 1905, she had the task of supervising the farm as he was an invalid for ten years previous to her death. Mr. Jones was born the year the first railroad train ran on this continent, 1828 (November 2). Mrs. Jones was the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom still survive. Her descendants number near 250. Her living children are Mrs. Martha Jordan, Hudson, La., T. L. Jones, Dodson, L. D. Jones, Natchitoches, W. W. Jones, Gaars Mill, Mrs. W. M. D. Gaar, Hudson; Mrs. W. M. Dickerson, Winnfield; Mrs. C. L. Hatten, Oak Grove; Miss Rosa Jones, Montgomery; Wiley R. Jones, Colfax, La.. Children preceding her in death were Berdette Jones, Mrs. F. T. Walker, Mrs. Lawrence Gisson and Charlie Jones. Grandma Jones had been making her home with a grandson, Harvey Jones, Montgomery, La., for the past twenty years. She raised Harvey from infancy. He is the son of Lee Jones. At the time of her death she was visiting her oldest child, who is now 80 years of age, Mrs. John Jordan at Hudson. The immediate death was caused from an injury sustained in a fall some ten days ago, but she was very active up to the time of the accident. Judge Wiley Jones, Colfax, La., one of the Judges of this judicial district, is Grandma Jones' youngest child. She was a benediction to her children. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Pardue of Louisiana College.