OBIT: Benjamin JONES, 1940, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Meyersdale Library. Transcribed and proofread by: Richard Boyer. Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ ________________________________________________ BENJAMIN JONES Benjamin Jones, for many years a citizen of Elk Lick Township, died at the home of his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones, of West Salisbury, Oct. 18, 1940, of coronary thrombosis. He had been in feeble health for some months. He was born in Schuylkill County, Pa., in 1861, according to an old baptismal certificate, on which his exact birth date was not noted. Mr. Jones, however, always contended that he was born in 1864. His baptismal certificate was signed by a Catholic priest, but Mr. Jones never considered himself a member of any church. His parents were Reese and Mary (Wiles) Jones, who died many years ago. Benjamin Jones and his late brother, William Jones, came to Elk Lick Township soon after the late Thomas S. Williams opened the first coal mine in that township, from which coal was shipped by rail. That was in 1878, and the two Jones brothers worked in that mine as early as 1882, and perhaps earlier. It was while Benjamin Jones was employed there that he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Williams, his employer's only daughter, who preceded her husband in death. They were the parents of five children: Herbert, Robert, Charlotte, Florence and Lizzie. All are deceased, except Robert, of West Salisbury, and Mrs. Lizzie Beal of Lewistown, Pa. Eleven grandchildren and two great- grandchildren also survive. Mr. Jones, from the time he was a young lad, worked at coal mining until too old to longer follow that occupation; first in the anthracite mines in the county where he was born, and later in the mines of the Meyersdale and Salisbury region. The funeral was held last Sunday at 2:30 p.m., at the home of his son, Robert, in West Salisbury. The service was conducted by Rev. H. Carl Buterbaugh, pastor of the Meyersdale and Salisbury Methodist congregations. The burial arrangement was in charge of Stanley M. Thomas, Salisbury mortician, and burial was in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Meyersdale Republican, October 24, 1940