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Julia Maria <I>Snow</I> Jones

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Julia Maria Snow Jones

Birth
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Death
2 Feb 1933 (aged 83)
Sutherland, Millard County, Utah, USA
Burial
Delta, Millard County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Block 2, Lot 11, Plot 1
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Millard County Chronicle 2/09/1933

MRS. JULIA JONES

Julia Snow Cox Jones died in Sutherland Thursday morning at the advanced age of eighty-four. Mrs. Jones was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. 20, 1849 and at the age of one year crossed the plains with a company of LDS pioneers. Her family made their first home in Salt Lake City and later in Lehi and when Mrs. Jones was a girl of seventeen, the parents were called to Dixie to help colonize. Later Mrs. Jones spent twenty years in Old Mexico returning at the end of that time with a company of refugees. Four years ago she came to Sutherland to live where she remained until the time of her death. Mrs. Jones was one of a family of fourteen and has two sisters living in Delta, Mrs. R.J. Gardner and Mrs. H.O. Gardner. The other sisters Mrs. Emma L. Burgess and Mrs. Reuben Gardner of St. George and one Brother Dr. Wm. J. Snow of Provo attended the funeral. Mrs. Jones was married twice, to Mr.[Joseph] Cox and later to Frederick Jones . Of the four children born to her one survives, her daughter Mrs. Jennie Thornton of Sutherland. Mrs. Jones was a woman of the finest character, high minded and sincere and holding to the highest principles. Courage was one of her outstanding qualities. For the past twenty years her eyesight had been extremely poor and she finally became blind. She was a woman well along in years but not dismayed, she studied and learned the Braile system of reading for the blind and read a great deal until death. Her many friends paid tribute to her memory at the funeral services held Saturday in the Sutherland LDS chapel. Interment was held in the Delta cemetery.
Millard County Chronicle 2/09/1933

MRS. JULIA JONES

Julia Snow Cox Jones died in Sutherland Thursday morning at the advanced age of eighty-four. Mrs. Jones was born at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. 20, 1849 and at the age of one year crossed the plains with a company of LDS pioneers. Her family made their first home in Salt Lake City and later in Lehi and when Mrs. Jones was a girl of seventeen, the parents were called to Dixie to help colonize. Later Mrs. Jones spent twenty years in Old Mexico returning at the end of that time with a company of refugees. Four years ago she came to Sutherland to live where she remained until the time of her death. Mrs. Jones was one of a family of fourteen and has two sisters living in Delta, Mrs. R.J. Gardner and Mrs. H.O. Gardner. The other sisters Mrs. Emma L. Burgess and Mrs. Reuben Gardner of St. George and one Brother Dr. Wm. J. Snow of Provo attended the funeral. Mrs. Jones was married twice, to Mr.[Joseph] Cox and later to Frederick Jones . Of the four children born to her one survives, her daughter Mrs. Jennie Thornton of Sutherland. Mrs. Jones was a woman of the finest character, high minded and sincere and holding to the highest principles. Courage was one of her outstanding qualities. For the past twenty years her eyesight had been extremely poor and she finally became blind. She was a woman well along in years but not dismayed, she studied and learned the Braile system of reading for the blind and read a great deal until death. Her many friends paid tribute to her memory at the funeral services held Saturday in the Sutherland LDS chapel. Interment was held in the Delta cemetery.

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