the jones family
John A. Jones & Ellen Owen Jones
Some miscellaneous documents relating to this family are compiled in a CD that is maintained with a collection of such in the Stehlik Czech museum. The documents are in pdf form. A couple of the documents were copied with attached notes obscuring part of the document. We do not have the original documents to be able to see what is hidden. It is likely that these documents are copied from the collection of the Nebraska State Historical Society.
John A. Jones was Welsh, according to an 1856 affidavit that is colloquially known as an "intent to become citizen." His wife was Ellen Owen Jones, also born in Wales according to her obituary. They were married in May 1860; he died in 1899; she died in 1916; both are buried in the Table Rock Cemetery, as well as their seven-year-old daughter Lydia. In between those documents are a fascinating little collection of documents, which include the purchase of a patented atmospheric pressure clothes washer in 1874, a receipt from a physician for partial payment by vegetables, and some life insurance paperwork.
John A. Jones was Welsh, according to an 1856 affidavit that is colloquially known as an "intent to become citizen." His wife was Ellen Owen Jones, also born in Wales according to her obituary. They were married in May 1860; he died in 1899; she died in 1916; both are buried in the Table Rock Cemetery, as well as their seven-year-old daughter Lydia. In between those documents are a fascinating little collection of documents, which include the purchase of a patented atmospheric pressure clothes washer in 1874, a receipt from a physician for partial payment by vegetables, and some life insurance paperwork.
1856 affidavit of john a. jones of intention to become a citizen
Note that 1856 was the date of the affidavit. The date of 1868 was just when the document was transcribed under oath (back in the days before copy machines).
purchase of a patented atmospheric pressure clothes washer
1874 receipt from the treasurer of clear creek grange no. 164 for quarterly payment due the grange
1878 application for insurance from continental insurance
1878 insurance payment installment schedule
1879 receipt for one of d. h. crooker's atmospheric pressure clothes washers. for $5 has the washer and can get "as many made as he wishes to use i his own Dwelling house
more documents
1883 letter to Jones family in Welsh, page 1
Letter to Jones family in Welsh, page 2
1884 receipt from physician for partial payment in vegetables, Physician Dr. A. F. Davis.
1894 subpoena to Mrs. John A. Jones to appear as a witness in a case of Elizabeth Fellers versus Llewellyn Fellers acting as administrator of the estate of Andrew Fellers. This document suggests that John A. Jones may be the Jones of Fellers and Jones.
1916 obituary of ellen jones
Ellen Owen was born in North Cardigan Shire, Wales, in 1835. In 1860, Ellen came to Table Rock to marry John A. Jones; he had come two years earlier to prepare the home. They married in May , 1860 by C. W. Giddings, the founder of Table Rock. John A. and Ellen had six children, four living at the time of her death on March 16, 1916. The surviving children: Mrs. Sarah Wright of La Junta, Colorado; E. O. Jones; Mrs. Mary Herrick, and Mrs. Effie Horton of Cleark Creek. Mrs. Katie Henry had died eight years before, and Lydia had died at age seven.
1916 obituary of Ellen Jones, sectioned for legibility on the web, section 1
Ellen Jones obituary section 2
Penny postcard to John Jones, postmark illegible, no copy of other side