Obit of Jones, Mrs. Oscar (j520) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell   <wpurc25758@aol.com>  14 Feb 2004
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Surnames: Jones

Originally posted at:
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Mrs. Oscar Jones, 50 years old, who resided nine miles northeast of Strong 
City, on the old Bert Welty fqarm, committed suicide Tuesday evening, 
September 22, 1932 by hanging self in garden, to limb of apple tree with 
chain.

Mrs. Jones was in Cheyenne last Saturday circulating a petition asking a 
parole of her son, Ray, who is serving a term in the penitentary.  Mrs. 
Jones told friends in Cheyenne that she and her family were in destitue 
circumstances and that she needed Ray to help make a living for the 
family.  Her husband is an invalid, suffering from paralysis.  There are 
four children at home ranging from 17 to about 6 years of age.

Mrs. Jones told the children she was going to the garden after vegetables, 
taking a bucket from the kitchen.  She then went into another room and 
secured a tablet and a pencil and went to the garden, but instead of 
gathering vegetables she wrote two notes, one to the children and the 
other a business note, giving directions as to how she wanted business 
affairs managed.  After she had written the notes she placed a trace chain 
aroung her neck and fastened the other end around a limb of an apple tree 
and thus suspended her body from the tree.

After a while the family became alarmed by her prolonged absence and Mr. 
Jones went to look for her.  He found her body hanging and at once 
notified H.V. Jobe, deputy sheriff at Strong City who called County 
Attorney Mouser who directed Mr. Jobe to take Justice of the Peace, J.P. 
Johnson, to the Jones home to hold an inquest.

Mrs. Jones carried a thousang dollars insurance.
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