The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-06-13
Memoir.
"Time like an ever rolling stream.
Bears oil her sons away,
They fly forgotten % DR. sam,
Dies at the opening day."


Daniel Burgess Jones, youngest son
OF John and Deborah Jones, was born
on the old homestead, near Leesburg,
Highland county, Ohio, Feb. 1886.
Died at his home near Careytown,O.,
May 26, 1901. Aged sixty-fve years,
three months and twenty-five days.
His parents came from Pennsylva-
mia, in the early settlement of the
country and settled on a farm where
he was born. His whole life was
spent in Highland county. In his
early manhood he had severe spell
of sickness which left him to some ex-
tent an invalid for life. He had life
long ambition to be professional, and
but for the failure of his health, would
in all probability have read medicine
and become a physician. On the 9th
of Feb. 1869, he was married to Laura
E. Arthur who survives to mourn her
loss. To this union three children
we're born, Clarence, Addie and Mar
lie. Clarence died several years ago.
Addie and Marble remain to share a
mothers grief and sooth her sorrow in
this hour of bereavement. For sever
al years he has not been able to do
much work, and in fact only through
his indomitable will was able to over.
see the work. He was most careful
and conscientious man in all his bust.
ness affairs.
He carefully avoided all entangling
alliances in business and studiously y
avoided running into debt. 1t was his
constant aim to owe no man anything
He was also careful to explain all his
business affairs to his family so that
in the event of his being taken away
suddenly, they would fully under.
stand them.
He was very domestic in his habits.
He loved his home and family and his
chief pleasure was found in the sacred
precincts of the one and in loving as.
sociation with the other.
He was a devoted husband and an
effectionate father. Whatever tend
ed to increase the happiness of his
wife ahd children was an added JOY
to him. He seldom withheld from
them anything it was in his power to
bestow. In the closing hours of his
life he still retained his solicitude for
the welfare of the family and inquired
about them each by name. He was
raised in the faith of the Hicksite
Friends. When about thirty-three
years of age he became member OF
the Orthodox Friends Society. His
long and upright life is its own best
exponent. No eulogy is needed upon
the life that has been from earliest
childhood an open book, known and
read by the men and women who are
here assembled to pay the last public
tribute of respent to his memory and
among whom there is not one to lay
anything to his charge. Peace to hi;
ashes, "He rests from his labors, ant
his works do follow him."
His last sickness was of short dura
ton. He attended the funeral ser
vices of Mr.. c. B. Edwards two week!
ago today. There was no more ap
parently interested listener in that
audience than he. How little theI
did we think, or he think that his OBJ
sequies would follow so soon.
Suddenly as the messenger came hi
did not take him unawares or so dis
turb him, as to cause him to loose hi
accustomed composure of mind.
He gave explicit directions for hi
funeral. Chose Mr.. Barrett as funera
director for the occasion and express
the wish that the writer preach hi
funeral, then took his departure
"Like one who wraps the drapery o!
his couch about him and lies down t.
pleasant dreams"
| "So vanishes our state; 20 pass our days
30 life but opens now, and now decays,
The cradle and the tomb. alas 10 nigh,
To live 10 scarce distinguished from, TO die.
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