He grew up with the Choctaw Indains. He played ball and went swimming with the boys and learned their language. While he was in Indian territory he worked in timber. His father's occupation was making chairs and spinning wheels.His father died when he was 17.After his dad's death he moved to Ark. His brother and sister already lived in Ark. He worked as a day laborer.He had little schooling. He took a six week subscription school in which the Blue Book speller was the main text. He also attended a 10 night writing school.He had to work late at the cotton gin on the first night so only got to attend nine classes.A friend taught him the fundamentals of arthmetic. He moved to Palarm township in 1879 from a community in the southern part of the county and bought a farm. He made his first crop in 1880.He made and gathered 65 crops. He cleared much of the land that he tilled. (His dad served in the Calvary in the civil war.) He was a member of the Oak Bowery Baptist Church since 1894 and served as a deacon for 50 years. He joined in 1894. He was converted under the ministry of Elder W. H. Holland.He came to Ark in an ox wagon. His brother Bill came and got him and Catherine. He worked the coal mines in Okla. and never had farmed. He got a job with cousin Zeke Adams by Olmstead when he came to Ark.
After Phalba died JD lived with Will Kelly and Della lived with Grahams for about 18 months.. After JD and Maggie married Mrs Kelly died so Will and Fern lived with JD.
Jeff's Mom died when he was 5 years old.
He died at Aunt Emily's on Watkins street in Conway. He went to let the mule out of the barn and the mule knocked him down and he could not get up and laid on the ground all night and took phneumonia. He still had his own teeth when he died. He never ate a tomato. He raised the prettiest tomatoes and thought they looked pretty on the table but he could not bring himself to eat one. He ate one thing on his plate at a time. He did not like chocolate cake. But Voyne did and Grandma Jones would make one for Voyne and he would ask what kind is it and she would say just a cake and he would eat it as Bruce remembered. He killed a deer when he was 12 when he was crossing Big Blue creek near McAlister Okls. he shot the deer with a 30-30 muzzle loading gun.
GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVED BY COUPLE NEAR CONWAY
Special to the Gazette
Conway-June 27 Mr and Mrs J.D. Jones observed their golden wedding anniversary at the home in Saltillo community Sunday with their six children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren and about 75 friends and neighbors present.
Mr. Jones,79. a farmer, was born on the present site of McAlester, Oklahoma. He came to Arkansas when he was 17. Mrs. Jones, 71, was born in Belfont, Mississippi and came to this state when she was 19.
The couples children are Miss Tressie Jones, Mrs W.E. Bolding, Mrs G.M. Landers, Mrs. Emily Landers, William J Jones and V.M. Jones
After Phalba died JD lived with Will Kelly and Della lived with Grahams for about 18 months.. After JD and Maggie married Mrs Kelly died so Will and Fern lived with JD.
Jeff's Mom died when he was 5 years old.
He died at Aunt Emily's on Watkins street in Conway. He went to let the mule out of the barn and the mule knocked him down and he could not get up and laid on the ground all night and took phneumonia. He still had his own teeth when he died. He never ate a tomato. He raised the prettiest tomatoes and thought they looked pretty on the table but he could not bring himself to eat one. He ate one thing on his plate at a time. He did not like chocolate cake. But Voyne did and Grandma Jones would make one for Voyne and he would ask what kind is it and she would say just a cake and he would eat it as Bruce remembered. He killed a deer when he was 12 when he was crossing Big Blue creek near McAlister Okls. he shot the deer with a 30-30 muzzle loading gun.
GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVED BY COUPLE NEAR CONWAY
Special to the Gazette
Conway-June 27 Mr and Mrs J.D. Jones observed their golden wedding anniversary at the home in Saltillo community Sunday with their six children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren and about 75 friends and neighbors present.
Mr. Jones,79. a farmer, was born on the present site of McAlester, Oklahoma. He came to Arkansas when he was 17. Mrs. Jones, 71, was born in Belfont, Mississippi and came to this state when she was 19.
The couples children are Miss Tressie Jones, Mrs W.E. Bolding, Mrs G.M. Landers, Mrs. Emily Landers, William J Jones and V.M. Jones
He grew up with the Choctaw Indains. He played ball and went swimming with the boys and learned their language. While he was in Indian territory he worked in timber. His father's occupation was making chairs and spinning wheels.His father died when he was 17.After his dad's death he moved to Ark. His brother and sister already lived in Ark. He worked as a day laborer.He had little schooling. He took a six week subscription school in which the Blue Book speller was the main text. He also attended a 10 night writing school.He had to work late at the cotton gin on the first night so only got to attend nine classes.A friend taught him the fundamentals of arthmetic. He moved to Palarm township in 1879 from a community in the southern part of the county and bought a farm. He made his first crop in 1880.He made and gathered 65 crops. He cleared much of the land that he tilled. (His dad served in the Calvary in the civil war.) He was a member of the Oak Bowery Baptist Church since 1894 and served as a deacon for 50 years. He joined in 1894. He was converted under the ministry of Elder W. H. Holland.He came to Ark in an ox wagon. His brother Bill came and got him and Catherine. He worked the coal mines in Okla. and never had farmed. He got a job with cousin Zeke Adams by Olmstead when he came to Ark.
After Phalba died JD lived with Will Kelly and Della lived with Grahams for about 18 months.. After JD and Maggie married Mrs Kelly died so Will and Fern lived with JD.
Jeff's Mom died when he was 5 years old.
He died at Aunt Emily's on Watkins street in Conway. He went to let the mule out of the barn and the mule knocked him down and he could not get up and laid on the ground all night and took phneumonia. He still had his own teeth when he died. He never ate a tomato. He raised the prettiest tomatoes and thought they looked pretty on the table but he could not bring himself to eat one. He ate one thing on his plate at a time. He did not like chocolate cake. But Voyne did and Grandma Jones would make one for Voyne and he would ask what kind is it and she would say just a cake and he would eat it as Bruce remembered. He killed a deer when he was 12 when he was crossing Big Blue creek near McAlister Okls. he shot the deer with a 30-30 muzzle loading gun.
GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVED BY COUPLE NEAR CONWAY
Special to the Gazette
Conway-June 27 Mr and Mrs J.D. Jones observed their golden wedding anniversary at the home in Saltillo community Sunday with their six children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren and about 75 friends and neighbors present.
Mr. Jones,79. a farmer, was born on the present site of McAlester, Oklahoma. He came to Arkansas when he was 17. Mrs. Jones, 71, was born in Belfont, Mississippi and came to this state when she was 19.
The couples children are Miss Tressie Jones, Mrs W.E. Bolding, Mrs G.M. Landers, Mrs. Emily Landers, William J Jones and V.M. Jones
After Phalba died JD lived with Will Kelly and Della lived with Grahams for about 18 months.. After JD and Maggie married Mrs Kelly died so Will and Fern lived with JD.
Jeff's Mom died when he was 5 years old.
He died at Aunt Emily's on Watkins street in Conway. He went to let the mule out of the barn and the mule knocked him down and he could not get up and laid on the ground all night and took phneumonia. He still had his own teeth when he died. He never ate a tomato. He raised the prettiest tomatoes and thought they looked pretty on the table but he could not bring himself to eat one. He ate one thing on his plate at a time. He did not like chocolate cake. But Voyne did and Grandma Jones would make one for Voyne and he would ask what kind is it and she would say just a cake and he would eat it as Bruce remembered. He killed a deer when he was 12 when he was crossing Big Blue creek near McAlister Okls. he shot the deer with a 30-30 muzzle loading gun.
GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVED BY COUPLE NEAR CONWAY
Special to the Gazette
Conway-June 27 Mr and Mrs J.D. Jones observed their golden wedding anniversary at the home in Saltillo community Sunday with their six children, nine grandchildren, and two great grandchildren and about 75 friends and neighbors present.
Mr. Jones,79. a farmer, was born on the present site of McAlester, Oklahoma. He came to Arkansas when he was 17. Mrs. Jones, 71, was born in Belfont, Mississippi and came to this state when she was 19.
The couples children are Miss Tressie Jones, Mrs W.E. Bolding, Mrs G.M. Landers, Mrs. Emily Landers, William J Jones and V.M. Jones
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