Mrs. Ed Jones
Dies Last Night
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Funeral For Leading
Citizen To Be Held
Sunday At Residence
Death came peacefully to Mrs. Edwin Dennis Jones last night at 6 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William R. Wicks, on South Virginia street. She would have been 86 years old next month.
The funeral will be held at the Jones residence on South Main street Sunday afternoon at 2:30, with the Rev. Robert Lord Cave, Christian minister officiating. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Ella Cayce Jones was born Jan. 11. 1855, in Christian county, the daughter of Sarah Thomas and Thomas Jefferson Cayce, who had nine sons and one daughter. Two Of Mrs. Jones' brothers, survive, Clinton H. Cayce and Robert Lee Cayce of the city.
In 1876 she was married to Colonel Jones of Charlotte county, Virginia, a gallant Confederate and a foremost citizen who was a philanthropic figure in South Christian county, where he and Mrs. Jones lived on their extensive farm at Rich. Mr. Jones died in 1922, but before his death the family moved to the present residence on South Main.
Mrs. Jones was the mother of eight children, three of whom, Mrs. Howard Brame, Mrs. Percy C. Smithson and Mary Neva Jones, preceded her in death. Surviving are her granddaughter, Mrs. Eddie Jones Smithson Wright of Birmingham, whom she reared from babyhood; two sons, Thomas C. Jones and Lucian Jones; three daughters, Mrs. Charles R. Boyd, Mrs. Alice Jones Carothers and Mrs. Wicks, of this community; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Jones was descended from a revolutionary soldier, William Cayce who, although an Irishman, lived in France and joined the French forces to fight for American Independence.
The hardy pioneer spirit was dominant in Mrs. Jones. Her industry was indefatigable, her common sense was proverbial, and her charity supported many needy families.
Early in her girlhood Mrs. Jones affiliated with the Christian church, and has always retained her membership in the little church at Rich, which Mr. Jones built and where they had always worshipped together.
Mrs. Jones completed her education at South Kentucky college. A building at old South Kentucky was named for her, and after its merger with Transylvania University, Science Hall at Lexington was named the "Ella Cayce Jones Hall," and a bronze tablet was inscribed to her as a memorial.
The active pall-bearers for the rites will be Kenneth O. Cayce, Granville Cayce, Lucian Cayce, Jack Tobin, Jr., Lou and Sam Jones.
-- Daily Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Saturday, December 21, 1940; Page 1.
Dies Last Night
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Funeral For Leading
Citizen To Be Held
Sunday At Residence
Death came peacefully to Mrs. Edwin Dennis Jones last night at 6 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William R. Wicks, on South Virginia street. She would have been 86 years old next month.
The funeral will be held at the Jones residence on South Main street Sunday afternoon at 2:30, with the Rev. Robert Lord Cave, Christian minister officiating. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Ella Cayce Jones was born Jan. 11. 1855, in Christian county, the daughter of Sarah Thomas and Thomas Jefferson Cayce, who had nine sons and one daughter. Two Of Mrs. Jones' brothers, survive, Clinton H. Cayce and Robert Lee Cayce of the city.
In 1876 she was married to Colonel Jones of Charlotte county, Virginia, a gallant Confederate and a foremost citizen who was a philanthropic figure in South Christian county, where he and Mrs. Jones lived on their extensive farm at Rich. Mr. Jones died in 1922, but before his death the family moved to the present residence on South Main.
Mrs. Jones was the mother of eight children, three of whom, Mrs. Howard Brame, Mrs. Percy C. Smithson and Mary Neva Jones, preceded her in death. Surviving are her granddaughter, Mrs. Eddie Jones Smithson Wright of Birmingham, whom she reared from babyhood; two sons, Thomas C. Jones and Lucian Jones; three daughters, Mrs. Charles R. Boyd, Mrs. Alice Jones Carothers and Mrs. Wicks, of this community; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Jones was descended from a revolutionary soldier, William Cayce who, although an Irishman, lived in France and joined the French forces to fight for American Independence.
The hardy pioneer spirit was dominant in Mrs. Jones. Her industry was indefatigable, her common sense was proverbial, and her charity supported many needy families.
Early in her girlhood Mrs. Jones affiliated with the Christian church, and has always retained her membership in the little church at Rich, which Mr. Jones built and where they had always worshipped together.
Mrs. Jones completed her education at South Kentucky college. A building at old South Kentucky was named for her, and after its merger with Transylvania University, Science Hall at Lexington was named the "Ella Cayce Jones Hall," and a bronze tablet was inscribed to her as a memorial.
The active pall-bearers for the rites will be Kenneth O. Cayce, Granville Cayce, Lucian Cayce, Jack Tobin, Jr., Lou and Sam Jones.
-- Daily Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Saturday, December 21, 1940; Page 1.
Mrs. Ed Jones
Dies Last Night
------
Funeral For Leading
Citizen To Be Held
Sunday At Residence
Death came peacefully to Mrs. Edwin Dennis Jones last night at 6 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William R. Wicks, on South Virginia street. She would have been 86 years old next month.
The funeral will be held at the Jones residence on South Main street Sunday afternoon at 2:30, with the Rev. Robert Lord Cave, Christian minister officiating. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Ella Cayce Jones was born Jan. 11. 1855, in Christian county, the daughter of Sarah Thomas and Thomas Jefferson Cayce, who had nine sons and one daughter. Two Of Mrs. Jones' brothers, survive, Clinton H. Cayce and Robert Lee Cayce of the city.
In 1876 she was married to Colonel Jones of Charlotte county, Virginia, a gallant Confederate and a foremost citizen who was a philanthropic figure in South Christian county, where he and Mrs. Jones lived on their extensive farm at Rich. Mr. Jones died in 1922, but before his death the family moved to the present residence on South Main.
Mrs. Jones was the mother of eight children, three of whom, Mrs. Howard Brame, Mrs. Percy C. Smithson and Mary Neva Jones, preceded her in death. Surviving are her granddaughter, Mrs. Eddie Jones Smithson Wright of Birmingham, whom she reared from babyhood; two sons, Thomas C. Jones and Lucian Jones; three daughters, Mrs. Charles R. Boyd, Mrs. Alice Jones Carothers and Mrs. Wicks, of this community; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Jones was descended from a revolutionary soldier, William Cayce who, although an Irishman, lived in France and joined the French forces to fight for American Independence.
The hardy pioneer spirit was dominant in Mrs. Jones. Her industry was indefatigable, her common sense was proverbial, and her charity supported many needy families.
Early in her girlhood Mrs. Jones affiliated with the Christian church, and has always retained her membership in the little church at Rich, which Mr. Jones built and where they had always worshipped together.
Mrs. Jones completed her education at South Kentucky college. A building at old South Kentucky was named for her, and after its merger with Transylvania University, Science Hall at Lexington was named the "Ella Cayce Jones Hall," and a bronze tablet was inscribed to her as a memorial.
The active pall-bearers for the rites will be Kenneth O. Cayce, Granville Cayce, Lucian Cayce, Jack Tobin, Jr., Lou and Sam Jones.
-- Daily Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Saturday, December 21, 1940; Page 1.
Dies Last Night
------
Funeral For Leading
Citizen To Be Held
Sunday At Residence
Death came peacefully to Mrs. Edwin Dennis Jones last night at 6 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William R. Wicks, on South Virginia street. She would have been 86 years old next month.
The funeral will be held at the Jones residence on South Main street Sunday afternoon at 2:30, with the Rev. Robert Lord Cave, Christian minister officiating. Interment will be in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. Ella Cayce Jones was born Jan. 11. 1855, in Christian county, the daughter of Sarah Thomas and Thomas Jefferson Cayce, who had nine sons and one daughter. Two Of Mrs. Jones' brothers, survive, Clinton H. Cayce and Robert Lee Cayce of the city.
In 1876 she was married to Colonel Jones of Charlotte county, Virginia, a gallant Confederate and a foremost citizen who was a philanthropic figure in South Christian county, where he and Mrs. Jones lived on their extensive farm at Rich. Mr. Jones died in 1922, but before his death the family moved to the present residence on South Main.
Mrs. Jones was the mother of eight children, three of whom, Mrs. Howard Brame, Mrs. Percy C. Smithson and Mary Neva Jones, preceded her in death. Surviving are her granddaughter, Mrs. Eddie Jones Smithson Wright of Birmingham, whom she reared from babyhood; two sons, Thomas C. Jones and Lucian Jones; three daughters, Mrs. Charles R. Boyd, Mrs. Alice Jones Carothers and Mrs. Wicks, of this community; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Jones was descended from a revolutionary soldier, William Cayce who, although an Irishman, lived in France and joined the French forces to fight for American Independence.
The hardy pioneer spirit was dominant in Mrs. Jones. Her industry was indefatigable, her common sense was proverbial, and her charity supported many needy families.
Early in her girlhood Mrs. Jones affiliated with the Christian church, and has always retained her membership in the little church at Rich, which Mr. Jones built and where they had always worshipped together.
Mrs. Jones completed her education at South Kentucky college. A building at old South Kentucky was named for her, and after its merger with Transylvania University, Science Hall at Lexington was named the "Ella Cayce Jones Hall," and a bronze tablet was inscribed to her as a memorial.
The active pall-bearers for the rites will be Kenneth O. Cayce, Granville Cayce, Lucian Cayce, Jack Tobin, Jr., Lou and Sam Jones.
-- Daily Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), Saturday, December 21, 1940; Page 1.
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