Uriah Jones Picnic Sunday

JONES, TULLOCK, MILLIGAN, LITTRELL, BENSON, COOK, CLARK, WINSLOW, BOYD

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 11/7/2011 at 09:23:03

Article dated Aug. 4, 1931

URIAH JONES PICNIC SUNDAY
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Descendants of Uriah Jones of Madison Township Meet Sunday at Guthrie Center
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WALKED TO COUNTY IN 1853 FROM INDIANA
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Chopped Chip From Butternut Tree and Entered Claim for Land at Government Land Office
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The third annual picnic of the descendants of Uriah Jones of Madison township was held at Guthrie Center Sunday, August 2nd.

A bountiful picnic dinner was held at noon. The rain of the early part of the day kept many away who had planned to be there. However, there were about 33 present to enjoy the day and make plans for next year.

Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Jones and Lillie Tullock of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones and son and Frank Jones of Toledo; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Milligan and family of Grinnell; Mr. and Mrs. S.M. Littrell and daughter and Mrs. Andy Benson and daughter of Lincoln, Neb.; Dr. and Mrs. L.L. Jones and children of Sutherland; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Cook of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Okey Clark and family of Shelby; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winslow of Belle Plaine; Mrs. John Boyd of Des Moines; Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Jones and family of Redfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jones of Spencer; Dr. G.W. Jones of Lawrence, Kan.

J.F. Jones and Dr. G.W. Jones are the only survivors of the Uriah Jones family.

Uriah Jones was one of the oldest settlers in this part of the country. In the year 1853 he walked from Indiana and in May of that year arrived with rifle on his shoulder at the grove in the wilderness where he entered the land now this famous and historical home. Being unfamiliar with government characters descriptive of real estate he chopped a chip from a butternut tree on which was written the numbers of the land representing his homestead and carried the chip to the government land office at Iowa City, where in May, 1853, he entered this land. At that time the country was peopled mostly by Indians, wolves, and great herds of deer.