Mary Jane Secor Jones, 1843-1925

JONES, SECOR

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/22/2012 at 20:53:01

Mrs. Mary J. Jones passed away peacefully at her home in the Krause apartments, surrounded by all her immediate family, Thursday evening, January 1, 1925. Her death was the culmination of a serious illness of several weeks and the ripe age of a life of service, namely, eighty-two.

Mary Jane Secor was born at Mount Pleasant, Racine county, Wisconsin, July 23, 1843. Upon reaching young womanhood, she was married to Thomas H. Jones in 1867. A few years later in 1871, she came to Iowa with her husband, her parents and her brothers and sisters and here endured all the hardships incident to a pioneer life on the prairies of Iowa. Three sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones, one of whom died in infancy. The two other sons, C H. and T. M. Jones, two grandchildren, Dale and C. H. Jones, Junior, and a nephew, L. P. Babcock, remain with, many friends to mourn the loss of this splendid woman. Her husband preceeded her in death ten years ago.

In all her relations in life, she was a true, kind and loving mother, governed by her Christian faith, professed as a member of the first Congregational church, with which denomination she united many years ago. She belonged to the Rebekah Lodge and was a charter member of the N.N.C. of that lodge. Mary Jane Secor was the first, of four children in the Secor family to make their advent into this world and the last to depart, having truly attained a ripe old ago, in that the intervening years of her life were filled with kindness and with many charitable acts and deeds of service to the surrounding community. And indeed all of the many who knew her and treasured her acquaintance will long remember her winning and cheerful personality.

Funeral services were held at the Cobb Funeral Home Sunday afternoon at two-thirty, which were largely attended by the people of Spencer. Of the organizations, represented by their members who were seated in a body, there were the Rebekah Lodge, the Temple Pythian Sisters, the Owl Club, of which Mr. T.M. Jones is a member and the Congregational Sunday school class of which she was a valuable member, which was very largely in attendance. As a further indication of the high esteem and regard in which this woman was held by these who saw her daily and each day responded to her pleasant greeting, were the entire force of employes of the store, who attended the services in a body. The G.A.R.'s of whom her husband wa a member, though few in number, were loyal in attendance and in remembrance with beautiful flowers, of which there were countless lovely tributes from many organizations, business associates and sympathatic friends, making the chapel profoundly beautiful. The Rev. Benj. J. Trickey was in charge of the services, as pastor of the Congregational church, and in his heartening remarks brought forth the comfort that death brings a messenger of peace to the aged, and is as a release to the aglabor, rest after great weariness, Mrs. Rex C. Hubbard sang that simple and trusting song, "Abide With Me," which was one dear to Mrs. Jones in life.

Burial was in Riverside cemetery. Those who acted as pall bearers, near by neighbors and friends, were: Messrs. A. H Avery, Ralph Free, George Krause, Charles O'Brien, Charles Howe and W. W. Haygarth.

Source: News-Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; January 8, 1925.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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