People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

Elizabeth Hancock Jones died at the home of her daughter in Kankakee township, Jasper county, Indiana. April G, 1896. at the advanced ageof 83 years and 15 days. She was one of Indiana's early pioneers, having come with her parents here when the state was yet a territory. She first settled in Monroe county but in a few years removed to Putnam county and settled on what was called Deer creek. Hereshe lived till 1830, when she became the wife of Berryman Jones of the adjoining county Owen whither she went to assist in laying the foundation of a new home. Here for 34 years she spent a busy life, doing willingly ami well her part in helping an honest industrious husband tomake a living. In 1864 she came to this county and as the Writer knows, here for thityr-one years she was the good house wife of the family, never giving up the work and man agement of her own household affairs till the death of her aged companion last September, since then she has had her home with her daughter, Mrs. Coilins. She was the mother of 11 children six of whom survive her. For 83 long years she bore the toilsand sorrows of life, she saw friends and kindred come and go, by the side of the graves of her parents, her husband and five children she stood, she saw sons off to war, she saw a goodly fortune made and lost, bodily pain and mental distress often visited her but Job like through all the days of her appointed time she with patience waited till the change came. For 60 years she was a consistent and exemplary member of the M. E. church, ever obedient to all its demands, ever hopeful in all its promises. As she lived so she died a firm believer in the Christian religion.