Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Emeline Dexter 1888
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Ionia Co. MIGenWeb
The Ionia Standard
Friday, February 3, 1888 
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Don Jones died very unexpectedly at her home on Sunday evening last, after
a brief illness of only a week. The announcement was a sad surprise to her many
friends, as even her relatives did not realize she was so seriously ill until
the day of her death.

Mrs. Jones was 59 years old on the 22nd of October last. She was a daughter of
Samuel Dexter, who made the original entry of the land where Ionia now stands
and who came here in 1833 from the state of New York. She was one of nine
children: five daughters and four sons. Three sisters and one brother survive
her, viz: Mrs. Alonzo Sessions and Mrs. Jonathan Tibbits, of Ionia; Mrs.
Prudence Tower, of Grand Rapids, and Stephen F. Dexter, of Evart. Three brothers
and one sister died before her, viz: Horace, Lorenzo and John C. Dexter, and
Mrs. Elwood, of Sycamore, Ill. She has had three children, all of whom, besides
her husband, survive her. They are Mrs. S. F. Smead, of Caro, and Mrs. H. E.
Kidd and D. Percy Jones, of Ionia.

Mrs. Jones was an affectionate wife, a devoted mother, and a kind and hospitable
neighbor. She had lived in Ionia most of the time since the very first
settlement of the village site, and in all her wide acquaintance in the
community there is not one who will not hear the announcement of her death with
deep regret. While she was devoted to her home, she was not neglectful of
society duties, and her pleasant manner, her charitable opinions and her
excellent common sense made her welcome in every home, and made her own home a
delightful resort for her many friends. She was a spiritualist in religion, and
her belief in that doctrine was unshaken to the last. Her whole life was a
bright example of pure womanhood, and its whole influence for good. She had a
profound belief in the immortality of the soul, and in the happiness to be
enjoyed by freed spirits in the world to come, but her catholic mind had no
censure for those of the more orthodox faiths who differed with her. It will be
a bold theologian who, knowing her, can venture to doubt that her reward is sure
and ever with the blest.


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