The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1902-07-10
NANCY JONES DEAD
Widow of Darling Jones Who Took Part
in Battle of Kings Mountain.

Jonesboro, Tenn, July 8.-Nancy
Jones, revolutionary war pensioner,
is dead at her home near Jonesboro.
Her maiden name was Nancy Huff,
and she was born about 1916.
At the age of 10 she was married to
Darling Jones, who at that time was
about 6S years old.
Darling Jones was born about the
year 1894, twelve years before the Dec
laration of Independence was signed.
At the age Of 16 he and his father were
soldiers in the North Carolina line and
took part in the battle Of Kings Noun
tain He died in October, 1S48.
When the great war of 1S61-65 came
three of Darling Jones sons were SOL
diers in the federal army.
Lewis Jones, born May 90, 1885, was
a member of company, Eighth Tennes-
see federal cavalry, and his brother,
William Fl. Jones, was a member of a
Kentucky union regiment. After serv-
ing three years he was veteranized and
then re-enlisted, so that at the end of
the war he had two discharges.
In 1898 when the Spanish-American
war broke out Lewis II. Jones (son of
Lewis above mentioned), fired by the
martial spirit of his ancestors, enlisted
in Co. TX, Third Tennessee infantry,
and served until the close of the war.
When Lewis II. Jones came home
from the Spanish war there was the
venerable grandmother, her head whit
ened by the SHOWS of 81 winters, draw
ing pension as the widow of a soldier
in the revolutionary war; his father,
Lewis Jones, grizzled veteran of the
war of 1861, also pensioner-three
members of the Jones family with mon
ey received from the United States
government for services in three wars
running from 1880 to 1890, a period OF
one hundred and nineteen years, the
only instance perhaps of the kind in
the United States.
The little house in which Nancy ZONES
lived was erected over forty years age
and the only improvement which ha
Ebeen made upon it since that date was
a new board roof.
Up to few weeks previous to hel
death Mrs. Jones was bright anC
springhtly, rising every morning a
daybreak and doing her own cooking
She had beautiful little flower garder
and also small plot where she cult
waited her own vegetables; fenced off Il
Zone side is a chicken yard, where sh,
raised chickens for the market. Sh,
was very frugal in her habits and he
lambition was to have enough none.
when she died to be decently burie,
and to have fine tombstone erected a
the grave of herself and her dead hus
band in the little Baptist graveyar
near her home. Mrs. Jones receive
\ many letters from people who aske
for her autograph and they amused he
very much as she could not write an
would read nothing but the Bible
, Many of the letters contained none
and she was always glad to receive the
{ kind.
With her death there now remain
only three other widows of revolution
airy soldiers who are on the governmer
; pension list They are Mrs. >Rebecca
: Mayo, Newbern, Va; Mrs. Mary Snea
> Parksley, Va, and Mrs. Rhoda Angus
> ia Thompson, of Woodbury., Com
! There. are living only seven daughter
: of revolutionary soldiers and only SCI
: en- veterans of the war of 1919 DRAWN
1 pensions and there is no account of an
Q others living.