Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Chester JONES

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From the Adams County Press, Volume XLIV Number 2, Saturday August 13,
1904, Page 4

Chester JONES of Kilbourn, formerly of the town of Jackson, Adams County,
died at Mercy Hospital, Chicago, Thursday night August 4th, from the
effects of an operation performed for neuralgia.

Mr. JONES was born at Rockingham, Vermont, March 21, 1823, where his youth
and young manhood were passed. In 1848 he was united in marriage to Miss
Olive E. WILLIAMS of Groton, Massachusetts, and soon after they came west
and settled in Rock county, Wisconsin. In 1850, Mr. JONES came to Adams
county, and settled on a farm in the town of Jackson, which has since been
known as the Jones homestead. To Mr. and Mrs. JONES two sons were born,
Norman M., of this place, who survives his father, and Homer, who died at
the age of thirteen years. Mrs. JONES died in 1851.

On March 15, 1853, Mr. JONES was united in marriage to Miss Mary E.
SPAULDING of Pelham, New Hampshire. Of this union one child was born, Cora
E., now Mrs. W. J. OSBORN, who resides on the old homestead. Mrs. JONES
died December 15, 1884, and Mr. JONES remined on the old homestead until
his marriage on September 13, 1891, to Mrs. Louise S. SEAMAN of Packwaukee,
Wisconsin, when he removed to Kilbourn, where he has since resided until
his death.

For fifty years Mr. JONES was a member of the church at Oxford, New Chester
and Kilbourn. Of his, it can be said, that it was a consistent, earnest
Christian life, "a living epistle, known and read of all men"...the thought
of his life seemed to be "Not to be ministered unto, but to Minister".

For nine years previous to his decease, he had been a sufferer from
neuralgia. Operations and remedies helped but little. A few weeks ago he
went to Chicago and underwent an operation in hopes of getting relief, but
never recovered from the operation.

Funeral services were conducted Sunday at the old home in the Town of
Jackson, by Reverend F. N. Dexter, the interment was in Oxford cemetery.