People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — A Good Man Gone. [ARTICLE]

A Good Man Gone.

Berryman N. Jones died at his home in Kankakee township. September 1, 1895. He was born in Wayne county, Kentucky, April 14. 1810, and was therefore 85 years 4 months and 17 days old. He came with his parents to Owen county, this state, when he was 16 years old and lived there till the spring of ’64, when he moved to this county and settled on the farm upon which he died. In 1830 he married Elizabeth Hancock, with whom he lived sixty four years. From this union there were born eleven children, all of whom, save one, lived to manhood and womanhood. An aged wife, three sons and three daughters survive him. In early life the deceased endured all the privations and inconveniences that fell to the lot of frontier farmers, but with industry and frugality by the time he reached middle age his accumulations had grown to such propoition that he was called “a rich fanner.” An evil hour came at this period, misfortune overtook him and the greater part of his possessions slipped away; much confidence in all men caused his losses. Like a man he met this ill luck, looked the world boldly in the face and the harder applied his already calloused hands to daily toil. He never fully regained his losses, but always had sufficient and a little to spare. Berryman Jones was one of Indiana’s pioneer farmers; for 70 years he has tilled our soil, cleared our fields, builded our roads; no busier life in manual toil did man ever lead. Whatever he thought needful to be done his strong hands cheerfully did; whatever he thought to be wrong the whole power of his manhood opposed. At the age of 21 he joined the Methodist church and for sixtyfour years he has been active in religious matters; for sixty-four years h is practice and his preaching have kept closer together than any whom the writer ever knew. For a quarter of a century in the north part of the county his has been a familiar face, his has been a familiar voice in prayer and exhortation. The church will miss him; the neighborhood will miss him; but his busy life over, he has gone to his rest; he Has shown to us, who knew him, how beautiful it is to live a sober, industrious, manly Christian life.