George Jonas (died 1876)

JONAS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/20/2011 at 17:43:24

Bellevue Leader, Bellevue, Iowa, January 31, 1877

Obituary

Died- At Council Bluffs, Iowa, December 29, 1876, Mr. George Jonas, formerly of Bellevue, aged 63 years. Mr. Jonas was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Iowa when it was a territory. When California fever broke out, he and several others started for that land of Ophir, where he remained until 1866 or 1867; he then returned to Bellevue on a visit to his daughters, Mrs. Shepler, Mrs. Beardsley and Mrs. Ben Williams; they tried to prevail on him to remain with them, but no persuasion could induce him to stay. He then left for the West again and stopped at Council Bluffs until the day of his death. He had been ailing for sometime owing to a paralytic stroke. Many who knew him well then were aware that he could not live long, but few thought he would die so soon.