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Submitted: 4/23/12 • Approved: 10/7/12 • Last Updated: 10/10/12 • R681351-G0-S3
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Company H 12 Regiment Kentucky Volunteers
Civil War Confederate
February 10, 1844 - December 20, 1907
Born Tennessee.
Died Wideman, Izard County, Arkansas.
Son of Thornton Jones & Sarah Jerden Bennett Jones.
Married (1) Liza Jane Reynolds, 1865, Graves County, Kentucky.
Married (2) Sarah Ellen Potts, 1883, Izard County, Arkansas.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Early Melbourne newspaper
Sep 27, 1906 - Local News
Uncle Alex Jones died at his home. near Pleasant Grove church, last Friday. -- aged about (65 ?)
Jun 13, 1912 - Melbourne, AR - Memorial Services
Wideman Lodge, No. 182 I. O. O. F., will hold memorial services on Saturday, June 15, in honor of and respect of their deceased Brethren. The following is the program arranged for the occasion:
The services will begin at Flat Rock at 9:30 a.m., when the grave of Bro. Harve Davis will be decorated and Bro. M. C. Burton will make a talk.
A procession will be formed and the members of the order and others will march to Pleasant Grove, where the graves of Alex Jones an W. T. McCurley will be decorated. Dr. S. S. Jones and Bro. J. F. Drown will make appropriate addresses here.
Then marching to Wideman, the grave of Bro. John Hames will be decorated, Prof. Oscar Wyatt making the address. From the Wideman Cemetery the members of the order will march to the hall and be dismissed.
We will have a few songs at each place.
All Odd Fellows and public generally invited to be present and to participate in the showing respect to our deceased brethren, friends and relatives. ---- J. R. Grown, N. G. -- Jno Hammett, Sec’y
(From the files of Vera Reeves)
(See family memorial.)
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 4/23/12 by maxparnell
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