Edith Lyda Jones Unland

UNLAND, JONES, DAUGHERTY, RIDGEWAY, TROW, RANDALL, WHITE

Posted By: Jean Wenke, volunteer
Date: 3/20/2009 at 18:57:01

Edith Lyda Jones, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, was born in Bonaparte, Iowa, July 3, 1879. Here she spent a happy childhood and grew to be a young woman. She took the course in the public school from the primary on throug the grades, and graduated with honor5s, the youngest of a class of fourteen in the spring of 1896.

In the spring of 1903 Edith finished the course in the Ruskin business college at Trenton, Mo.

Edith was always an active, enthusiastic member of the Sunday school and Youth Peoples' Society and she united with the Presbyterian Church under the pastorate of Rev. Scofield.

April 8, 1906, she was united in marriage with Edgar Earnest Unland, the ceremony taking place at the home of a Methodist minister in Chicago. They lived in Chicago for awhile, but recently have been making their home in New York City.

It was from there a message was received last week saying that Edith was seriously ill and her mother and daughter went at once to her. They found her better than they had expected and sent back word that she was doing very well, but an operation was contemplated, which was successful. Her condition was more critical than even her physicians had anticipated, for she died Thursday morning, October 26, 1911, aged a little more than thirty-two years.

She was conscious to the last, and bade her husband, mother and daughter good-bye. Her lat words were "Papa, I am coming home to you." Her father, Henry Jones, died April 14, 1902.

Her death, coming with such a sudden shock, has almost overwhelmed her relatives, and comes as a calamity to all who knew her.

She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, Edgar Earnest Unland, her mother, Mrs. Lyda Jones, her daughter by a previous marriage, Mildred Sylvia Daughtery. She has three sisters, Miss Nelle Jones, of Bonaparte, Mrs. J.D. Ridgeway of Trenton, Mo., Mrs. B. A. Trow of Libertyville, and two brothers, Walter E. Jones of Bonaparte and Harry R. Jones of Farmington and two aunts, Miss Ella Randall of this place and Mrs. Sophia R. White of Fredonia, N.Y. Besides these she leaves nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends who deplore the death of one so young, so gifted and to whom it seemed the possibilities of this life had no more than begun.

The funeral was held from the home Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. James Clark of Donnellson. The floral offerings were remarkable for their profusion and beauty.

From Dorothy Watson's scrapbook, Bonaparte, Iowa Library