Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1858 — A Noble Act. [ARTICLE]

A Noble Act.

One day last week a couple of small bovs went into the Miami river, at Piqua, Ohio, for the purpose of bathing, and got into water beyond their depth. Mr. John Jones seeing thejr perilous situation went into the water andi rescued one of them, and in an attempt to bring the other to shor a was himself drowned, but the boy was saved by the exertion of Mr. Jonathan Evans. A subscription was raised by the citizens for the purpose of purchasing for the widow and children o;f Mr. Jones a house and lot for their permanent home. Mrs. McDonald, mother of one of the boys saved from a waterv grave, generously headed the subscription paper with SIOO. The fife companies, of which Mr. Jones was a member, took immediate steps for the erection of a monument to his memory. su. , cts of bravery and humanity deserve i . rmanent record,! not on'y on the Be." .1 marble, but in the written history o noble deeds of men.