Obituary: Green County, Wisconsin: Jennie JONES ************************************************************************ Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ PNEUMONIA FATAL TO MRS. ARTHUR JONES, 47 DEATH FOLLOWS TEN DAY ILLNESS; BURIED SUNDAY IN ENGLISH SETTLEMENT CEMETERY Mrs. Arthur Jones, 47, a life long resident of this vicinity died at 12:15 a.m. Friday in her home four miles southwest of the city following an illness of ten days from flu and pneumonia. Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the home and at 2:30 in the English Settlement church, the Rev. C. L. Vories officiating. Mrs. W. A. Dake sang "Face to Face," "Sometime We'll Understand," and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" accompanied by Mr. John Thurman. Burial was made in the English Settlemnt cemetery with Earl Hopkins, Forest Purrington, and Verne, Jean, Bert, and Chester Jones as pallbearers. Jennie May Jones was born Feb. 13, 1883. She was a daughter of Mary George and when an infant was taken and reared by her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Higday. Mrs. Jones has always lived in this vicinity. She attended the Tullar school and on being graduated from the Evansville high school in 1902 taught one year in the English Settlement and later in the De Reimer districts. She was maried to Arthur Jones, Albany, Feb. 23, 1904 after which they settled on her father's farm which they later purchased. Besides her husband she is survived by four daughters and five sons, Mrs. Helen Purrington, Albany; Mrs. Elizabeth Hopkins, Brooklyn; Lynn, Leroy, Clifford, Ralph, Dorothy, Arthur, Jane and Robert at home; and two grandchildren, June Purrington and Roger Hopkins. Ethel Eileen and an infant son preceded her in death. Mrs. Jones, who lived an eminently useful life, was a loving wife and mother and a kind neighbor never thinking of herself but of her family and friends even though she suffered a great deal in the last years. February 27, 1930, Evansville Review, pp. 1 & 8, Evansville, Wisconsin