The oldest person in this section, Mrs. W. T. Jones, age 98 years, 5 months, and 10 days, was buried in the presence of a host of sorrowing relatives and friends at the Zion Hill Cemetery, Monday, May 16, 1932. She held membership with the Zion Hill Church for 73 years, having joined this little Baptist Church when she and her husband moved to this state and settled in Winn Parish on Kyiche Creek, six miles west of Dodson. The old family home is still intact.

Before her marriage to William Tunley Jones, in Jasper County, Miss., on Nov. 9, 1851, she was Miss Martha Ann Caroline McCarty, born December 5, 1833. They were married by a famous Mississippi Circuit rider Elder, Nathan L. Clark. Her husband answered the call for volunteers in the Civil War and Grandma Jones was left at home with five small children. She plowed, sheared sheep, attended the children, and struggled through the perilous Civil War days as did many brave souls. Then in the latter days her husband, who died February 14, 1905, she had the task of supervising the farm as he was an invalid for ten years previous to her death. Mr. Jones was born the year the first railroad train ran on this continent, 1828 (November 2).

Mrs. Jones was the mother of thirteen children, nine of whom still survive. Her descendants number near 250.

Her living children are Mrs. Martha Jordan, Hudson, La., T. L. Jones, Dodson, L. D. Jones, Natchitoches, W. W. Jones, Gaars Mill, Mrs. W. M. D. Gaar, Hudson; Mrs. W. M. Dickerson, Winnfield; Mrs. C. L. Hatten, Oak Grove; Miss Rosa Jones, Montgomery; Wiley R. Jones, Colfax, La.. Children preceding her in death were Berdette Jones, Mrs. F. T. Walker, Mrs. Lawrence Gisson [sic Grisham] and Charlie Jones.

Grandma Jones had been making her home with a grandson, Harvey Jones, Montgomery, La., for the past twenty years. She raised Harvey from infancy. He is the son of Lee Jones. At the time of her death she was visiting her oldest child, who is now 80 years of age, Mrs. John Jordan at Hudson. The immediate death was caused from an injury sustained in a fall some ten days ago, but she was very active up to the time of the accident.

Judge Wiley Jones, Colfax, La., one of the Judges of this judicial district, is Grandma Jones' youngest child. She was a benediction to her children.

Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Pardue of Louisiana College.

Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, May 19, 1932
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WINNFIELD, La., May 16. -- (Special) -- Mrs. Caroline Jones, age 98 years, 5 months and 12 days, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martha Jordan, of the Hudson community, near Winnfield, Sunday, May 15, 1932, at 4 a.m., following a brief illness due to a fractured limb sustained in a fall at the home of her daughter last Monday.

Mrs. Jones made her home with her grandson, Harvey Jones, of Montgomery, and had gone to the Hudson community to visit her daughter, when she met with the fatal accident that caused her death. Despite her 98 years she had been very active until recently she began to grow feeble.

It was her great desire, as well as that of her children and grandchildren that she live to be 100 years of age. Funeral services will be held Monday at Zion Hill Baptist church and interment will be made in the family burial plot in the Zion Hill cemetery.

In addition to a large number of grandchildren, the deceased is survived by the following children: Judge Wiley R. Jones, of Colfax; T. L. Jones, of Dodson; L. D. Jones, and Miss Rosa Jones, of Montgomery; Wesley Jones, of Gaar's Mill, Mrs. Martha Jordan and Mrs. Josie Gaar, of Hudson.

Published in The Alexandria Town Talk (LA), Monday, May 16, 1932