JONES, Irena EDWARDS - {from Hiwasse} Mrs. Berry Jones passed away at her home north of town last Friday p.m. after a lingering illness of heart trouble. Had she lived 6 days longer she would have reached her 61st birthday. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon by her pastor, Eld. King, and her body laid to rest in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Obituary later. {Editor's note: Mrs. Jones was mother of our Hiwasse editor, W.G. Jones, and a daughter of Eld. Wm. Edwards and sympathy goes out to the bereaved ones. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - February 17, 1922]
Miss Irena Edwards, oldest child of Wm Edwards, was born in McDonald Co., Mo. Feb. 16, 1861. She died at her home near Hiwasse, Ark. Feb. 10, 1922, lacking only six days of being sixty-one years old. She came with her parents to Benton County, Ark. when small and has spent most all her life here. She was married to G.B. Jones Oct. 18, 1883, the Eld. J.W. West officiating. To this union was born thirteen children, four of them having passed on in their infancy. The nine surviving were with their mother during her last illness except Mrs. Dosia Haysler of Webb City, Mo. who could not come. And were all at the funeral except Mrs. Anna Russell of Wellston, Okla. and Lester Jones of Elk City, Kan. Irena was converted at the age of fourteen years and untied with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near her father's home and was a faithful member of the church at the time of her death. She was possessed of a tender heart, a strong faith in God and was always cheerful. She was prompt to offer services to anyone who was sick or in distress thruout the neighborhood in which she lived. Though seriously afflicted, physically, for several months, she never complained of her condition. Funeral services were conducted at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday by her Pastor Eld. J.E. King and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at her request. Contributed. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - March 3, 1922]
Miss Irena Edwards, oldest child of Wm Edwards, was born in McDonald Co., Mo. Feb. 16, 1861. She died at her home near Hiwasse, Ark. Feb. 10, 1922, lacking only six days of being sixty-one years old. She came with her parents to Benton County, Ark. when small and has spent most all her life here. She was married to G.B. Jones Oct. 18, 1883, the Eld. J.W. West officiating. To this union was born thirteen children, four of them having passed on in their infancy. The nine surviving were with their mother during her last illness except Mrs. Dosia Haysler of Webb City, Mo. who could not come. And were all at the funeral except Mrs. Anna Russell of Wellston, Okla. and Lester Jones of Elk City, Kan. Irena was converted at the age of fourteen years and untied with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near her father's home and was a faithful member of the church at the time of her death. She was possessed of a tender heart, a strong faith in God and was always cheerful. She was prompt to offer services to anyone who was sick or in distress thruout the neighborhood in which she lived. Though seriously afflicted, physically, for several months, she never complained of her condition. Funeral services were conducted at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday by her Pastor Eld. J.E. King and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at her request. Contributed. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - March 3, 1922]
JONES, Irena EDWARDS - {from Hiwasse} Mrs. Berry Jones passed away at her home north of town last Friday p.m. after a lingering illness of heart trouble. Had she lived 6 days longer she would have reached her 61st birthday. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon by her pastor, Eld. King, and her body laid to rest in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery. Obituary later. {Editor's note: Mrs. Jones was mother of our Hiwasse editor, W.G. Jones, and a daughter of Eld. Wm. Edwards and sympathy goes out to the bereaved ones. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - February 17, 1922]
Miss Irena Edwards, oldest child of Wm Edwards, was born in McDonald Co., Mo. Feb. 16, 1861. She died at her home near Hiwasse, Ark. Feb. 10, 1922, lacking only six days of being sixty-one years old. She came with her parents to Benton County, Ark. when small and has spent most all her life here. She was married to G.B. Jones Oct. 18, 1883, the Eld. J.W. West officiating. To this union was born thirteen children, four of them having passed on in their infancy. The nine surviving were with their mother during her last illness except Mrs. Dosia Haysler of Webb City, Mo. who could not come. And were all at the funeral except Mrs. Anna Russell of Wellston, Okla. and Lester Jones of Elk City, Kan. Irena was converted at the age of fourteen years and untied with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near her father's home and was a faithful member of the church at the time of her death. She was possessed of a tender heart, a strong faith in God and was always cheerful. She was prompt to offer services to anyone who was sick or in distress thruout the neighborhood in which she lived. Though seriously afflicted, physically, for several months, she never complained of her condition. Funeral services were conducted at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday by her Pastor Eld. J.E. King and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at her request. Contributed. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - March 3, 1922]
Miss Irena Edwards, oldest child of Wm Edwards, was born in McDonald Co., Mo. Feb. 16, 1861. She died at her home near Hiwasse, Ark. Feb. 10, 1922, lacking only six days of being sixty-one years old. She came with her parents to Benton County, Ark. when small and has spent most all her life here. She was married to G.B. Jones Oct. 18, 1883, the Eld. J.W. West officiating. To this union was born thirteen children, four of them having passed on in their infancy. The nine surviving were with their mother during her last illness except Mrs. Dosia Haysler of Webb City, Mo. who could not come. And were all at the funeral except Mrs. Anna Russell of Wellston, Okla. and Lester Jones of Elk City, Kan. Irena was converted at the age of fourteen years and untied with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church near her father's home and was a faithful member of the church at the time of her death. She was possessed of a tender heart, a strong faith in God and was always cheerful. She was prompt to offer services to anyone who was sick or in distress thruout the neighborhood in which she lived. Though seriously afflicted, physically, for several months, she never complained of her condition. Funeral services were conducted at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday by her Pastor Eld. J.E. King and the remains laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at her request. Contributed. [Gravette News-Herald - Gravette, Benton County, Arkansas - March 3, 1922]
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