OBIT:  JONES, Milton; 1908; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA

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Cambria Freeman
Ebensburg, Pa. 
Friday, 27 Nov 1908
Volume 42, Number 46


Milton Jones, Civil War Veteran and Prominent Churchman, 
Passes Away at Ebensburg Home at Ripe Age of Seventy-Eight

Milton Jones, one of Ebensburg's oldest citizens, died 
Thursday morning at his home on Mary Ann Street after an 
illness of a month of diseases incident to old age.

Milton Jones was born December 6, 1829, on the Evan Evans 
(Sawyer) farm, three miles north of Ebensburg.  He was a 
son of Thomas and Amy Jones. He resided there for many 
years and when the Civil War broke out, enlisted in Company 
F, One Hundred and Thirty-three Pennsylvania Volunteers.  
Mr. Jones was wounded in the battle of Fredericksburg and 
was discharged from service May 26, 1863.  He was a member 
of John M. Jones Post, No. 556 G. A. R. of Ebensburg.  He 
was also a member, clerk and Trustee of the Ebensburg First 
Baptist Church.

Soon after his return from the Civil War or on the 5th of 
July in 1864 he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Davis 
of Jackson Township.  She was a sister of the late Thomas 
Davis and of David Davis of Ebensburg. The ceremony was 
performed in Johnstown and Mr. and Mrs. Jones went to 
Jackson Township to reside.  Mrs. Jones and the following 
children survive:  William R.; C. R.; Miss Alice and Walter 
Jones, Esq.; all of Ebensburg. He is also survived by four 
grandchildren and the following brothers and sisters:  
Elizabeth, wife of David Davis of Grove Avenue, Johnstown; 
Mrs. Harriet Hepting of Pittsburg; Martha, wife of Harrison 
Burkett of Sell Street, Johnstown and Lemuel Jones of 
Salix.  A brother died recently in the West.

The funeral cortege will leave the Jones residence at 1:30 
o'clock Saturday afternoon.  Services will be held in the 
First Baptist Church at 2 o'clock, the Rev. F. I. Sigmund 
to preach the sermon. The members of the G. A. R. and I. O. 
O. F. will attend in a body.