STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, February 8, 1899, pg. 1, col. 4

LOUIS D. JONES, 22 Jan 1835 - 01 Feb 1899

   At his home in Peoria, Ill., Feb. 1st, 1899, Louis D. 
Jones, aged 64 years, 1 month and 9 days.

   Mr. Jones was born in Greene county, New York, Jan. 22, 
1835.  In 1858 he came to Angola in a photograph car and 
engaged in business in a frame building then standing where 
the Croxton opera block now stands.  In 1861 he was united in 
marriage to Mary Anderson, a sister of John and James 
Anderson.  They resided in Angola until 1876, after which they 
resided a short time in Jackson, Mich., Orland and Laporte, 
Indiana, Chicago, Ill., and about seven years ago they moved 
to Peoria, where Mr. Jones engaged as a teacher in the Peoria 
horological school, of which institution he was a professor at 
the time of his death.  His remains were brought to Angola, 
Saturday evening and placed in the Croxton vault until three 
o'clock Sunday afternoon, when they were put away in their 
last resting place.  Mr. Jones was a member of the Masonic 
lodge at Peoria.  He leaves a wife and many friends.  Mrs. 
Jones and her sister Eliza and husband, Martin Cole, of South 
Bend, and her brother Thomas Anderson and son Ralph, of 
Elkhart, accompanied the remains to Angola, where they met 
other relatives.

Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net