The Republic
Columbus, Indiana
Wednesday, January 30, 1878
Page 3

AT REST

This afternoon the remains of Mr. Smith Jones, an old and respected citizen of this place, was consigned to the tomb. The services here conducted at the late residence by the Rev. A. Parker, in the midst of a large number of sorrowing friends. The following obituary we copy from the Indianapolis Sentinel of today, which give a minute description of his life and character:

THE HON. SMITH JONES

The painful duty devolves upon us of chronicling the death of the Hon. Smith Jones, of Columbus. He died on the 28th inst. in this county, and his obsequies will take place in Columbus, Bartholomew Co., today, the 30th inst.

The deceased was a native of North Carolina, was born in the year 1813, and was at the time of his death in the 65th year of his age. Mr. Jones was in all regards and in the largest sense a good citizen. He came fully to the standard which marks the upright man, and has left behind him an honorable record which surviving relative and friends will feel great satisfaction in reviewing. The deceased, the brother of the Hon. Aquilla Jones of this city, was a man of public spirit, of generous impulses, large information and unbending integrity. As one of the members of the constitutional convention of 1850 he contributed his full share in laying the foundations of the organic law upon which the state of Indiana has steadily advanced in prosperity and influence, and as a member of the state senate in 1858-59 and 61 his ability was recognized and his sagacity felt in the deliberations of that body. President Johnson appointed him collector of internal revenue, and he fulfilled the trust with eminent credit to himself and with satisfaction to the people generally. Aside from the public trusts which the deceased filled without reproach, he was, as we have said, a citizen par excellence, and it was in the relation of husband and neighbor that he won the friendship and esteem of all who knew him. He leaves a wife and a large circle of relatives and friends to bemoan his exit from the stage of action, and the memory of his pure and unspotted life will be a solace which no public honors could improve. Pure in life, noble in thought and purpose, unostentatious in his intercourse with men, Smith Jones has left behind him the priceless legacy of a life well spent in valuable services to the state and a character unsullied. When such men die society suffers a great loss, but the example of such a life as that of the deceased is a grand reminder to those who are engaged in the battle of life-that a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches.-Sentinel.