Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jones, Edgar S., 1963 

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Edgar S. Jones Rites Saturday At Wakefield 

  WINDSOR - Funeral services for Edgar Sydney [sic; Sidney] Jones will be 
conducted Saturday at 3 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, by the 
Rev. W.A. Grissom, pastor of Windsor Christian Church.  Burial will be in 
Antioch Christian Church near Windsor. 

  Mr. Jones, 83, died Thursday night in a Suffolk hospital after an illness 
of two months. 

  A native of Louisburg, N.C., he was a retired carpenter.  He lived in 
Windsor 20 years.  He was a son of Edward Clayton and Mrs. Oleona Andrews 
Jones and the husband of the late Mrs. Eleanor O'Hara Jones [sic*]. 

  He was a member of Windsor Congregational Christian Church and its Baraca 
Bible Class. 

  Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. E.W. Edwards of Norfolk and Mrs. Sarah J. 
Whitley of Windsor. 

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Edgar S. Jones 

  Edgar Sydney [sic; Sidney] Jones, 83, retired carpenter of Windsor, died 
Thurs., October 17, after an illness of two months.  He was a native of North 
Carolina and had made his home in Windsor for the past 20 years.  He was a 
member of Windsor Congregational Christian Church and the Barach Bible Class. 

  He was the son of Edward Clayton and Oleona Andrews Jones and the husband of 
the late Eleanor O'Hara Jones.  He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Sarah J. 
Whitley of Windsor and Mrs. E.W. Edwards of Norfolk. 

  Funeral services were conducted Saturday, October 19, by Rev. Wm. A. Grissom 
at 3:00 P.M. at Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, with interment at Antioch 
Cemetery near Windsor. 

  Active pallbearers were: Weyland Joyner, Sidney Crocker, James Beale, Allen 
Bland, Herbert Lawrence and Zollie Johnson.  Honorary pallbearers were members 
of Barach Bible Class of Windsor Christian Church. 


Edgar Sidney JONES, of Windsor, retired carpenter, formerly of Washington, DC, 
b. 3 Dec 1879, Louisburg, Franklin Co., NC, d. 17 Oct 1963, Suffolk, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 19 Oct 1963, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 41, No. 250, Fri., Oct. 18, 1963, p. 2; 
"Sussex-Surry Dispatch" (Waverly, VA), Vol. 87, No. 43, Thurs., Oct. 24, 1963, 
   p. 7 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #104683900. 

D.Cert. 29411 (Chuckatuck #348) gives widower of Eleanor O. JONES; 
   the informant was [his sister] Sarah WHITLEY. 

Rather, his wife was Anna Elnore (SHUCKER) JONES (1884-1931), buried with her 
   father John in Troutville Union Cemetery, Troutville, Clearfield Co., PA. 
   Clippings of her obits are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #24761567. 


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