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From: Darrell Warner <>
Subject: [KYBATH] Obituary, Thomas L. Jones 8-31-1939
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:28:32 -0600

Bath County News-Outlook August 31, 1939
Thomas L. Jones
Brief Illness Fatal To Thos. L. Jones
Funeral Here Tuesday Afternoon
Thomas L. Jones, 74 years old, died
unexpectedly at his home here Sunday night,
August 27, after a brief illness. Mr. Jones had
been ill a week or more prior to his death,
but had recovered sufficiently to be about and his
condition was not considered critical
until he suffered a sudden attack Sunday night.
A son of the late Jonathan T. and Mary Darnell
Jones, he was a native of this county and
a member of one of its oldest and most influential
families. He was born September 10,
1865, and lived all his life in the county. For
two terms he served as deputy tax
commissioner. His wife, the late Catherine Whaley
Jones, died January 18, 1936.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Albert
Jones and Mrs. Carlton Rawlings, of this
county, and Mrs. Clayton Johnson, of Morehead;
four half-brothers, J. R. Jones and
William T. Jones of Cynthiana, and Robert Jones
and Jonathan Jones, of Lathrop,
Missouri, and one half-sister, Mrs. J. D. Hawkins,
Columbia, Mo.
Funeral services were held at the residence
Tuesday afternoon, August 29, conducted by
the Rev. George C. Frey and the Rev. Henry S.
Ficklin. Interment was in the Owingsville
cemetery.
Pall bearers were: active, C. P. Darnell, S. R.
Darnell, Willie Vanlandingham, Nathan
Manley, L. R. Whaley, Robert Oakley and George W.
Boyd: honorary, J. B. Jones, R. R.
Swetnam, Dee Jones, C. F. Martin, J. T. Rawlings,
Charles Whaley, A. M. Razor, Dr. H.
S. Gilmore, Newt Crump, J. B. Colliver, C. L.
Snedgar, D. W. Doggett, J. L. Irwin and
Frank Jones.

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