Smyrna times., 1908-12-30
RECOLLECTION OF SMYRNA.
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my eggs and drove back home and
got my mail which brought the
scales from my eyes. just thought
l would not blame that on him or
charge him d cent for that but have
ever been able to remember him.
Howard and Gilbert Jones Successful
He has turned out two kids of the
masculine gender one of which | found
a few months ago at the northwest
of the four business corners of Smyr-
ma with chubby form and rosy cheek,
looking as though he never expected
to need a doctor and dealing out |
cure-all to some and kill-by- chance
to others, if not properly mixed or
taken in careful quantities, and |
seemed satisfied with himself and |
surroundings, and the other one of |
those kids, Gilbert Jones may be seen |
in the business office of the Evening
Journal with a ring on his finger,
glasses on his nose, pen over his
ear and pencil in his hand, too in
tently engaged in trying to figure out
how many papers their new press can
run off that day with paying adver
tisements sufficient to line the
pockets of the prOprietors of that pa
per with a cash lining. Mr.. Editor
l can't near do this Jones family up
in one column, here l am now with
over column and have only touched
three families. Besides these there
was just over the line in New Castle,
Peter Jones, who had a son Thomas
who left son Thomas. an awfully
clever fellow living on the Thorough
fare farm in Thoroughfare Neck,
and two brothers, Miles and Purrell
Jones. Miles married a Miss Deputy
and left a daughter now a Mrs.
/ Walters who is now proprietor of
private hospital at End and West
streets in Wilington, and a Thomas
Jones near the Pine Tree with three
sons, William, Henry and George, all
of which became farmers on large
scale in Delaware and Maryland.
William married Tilghman Foxwell's
daughter from whom the hotel IN
Smyrna took its name. Two more
brothers Enoch and William Jones
both good farmers near MiddletOwn.
and Isaac Jones celebrated pump
maker of Middletown with five or six
sons.
Major John Jones of Bohemia Manor
Major John Jones of the Bohemian
Manor who owned the celebrated
Gumbush farm in that section was
noted for his superior knowledge of
things in general and his peculiar
habit of keeping his family and
everyone else guessing as to his
whereabouts, 1t is said that he
would start out in the morning with
the market basket to go TO Middle
town or some other nearby point, set
his basket down at the most convenient
place and take up in New York OF
r Boston, leaving those at home won
! dering when they would see the ex.
pected contents of the basket. He
had several sons one of whom was
E also John, but better known as Gum.
bush Jones, and who v as the patented
!. of the great Jones peach cutler, bu
J the family have scattered till l have
;, lost track of them. The old Majol
was the grandfather of Presley Dun
Il ming of whom the people of Ken
- county know so much. And thel
there is a certain Samuel Jones o
8. the same section as the Major o
h some distinction foo, who is rea
estate owner and noted for his up
right department and as white a
!. almost any man you can find on tn
: Interior but not white on the outsid
surface. tell you the old man Sar
- Jones is a good one and worthy o
a notice in this connection. Now W
will not pursue the Jones family t.
. the full extent of its existenc
but we must mention some fe7
70 others who have been prominent an
more favored in our country for thei
position and attainments in our na
- tion's affairs. First, Washingto
"a Jones of Wilmington, who was
h early life leading dry goods mel
chant and later in the morocco busi
ness and died few years ago at h
fine residence on Delaware avenue
20 Wilmington.
De Jones Who Have Figured in Histol
Then William Humphrey Jones (
Wilmington, but later Of WashingtC
prominent in the affairs of the nj
tion, and Captain Jacob Jones WI
n commanded the sloop of wa