Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson co. Iowa
May 20, 1926
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DROWNED
Hiram T. Jonas, Formerly of Bellevue, Meets Watery Grave
Tragedy Took Place at Bremerton Bay, Washington, Victim Falling
Off Pier
The Danbury, Iowa Review contains the following item of
local interest, since Hiram T. Jonas was a Civil War veteran who
enlisted from Bellevue and was a cousin of the late Mrs. LeRoy
Brown of Bellevue. He left Bellevue many years ago, locating in
Western Iowa, the Review says:
Word has been received here that Hiram T. Jonas, a former
resident of this section and well-known to many of our older
inhabitants, had accidentally drowned when he fell off the pier
at Bremerton Bay, Washington, he having been making his home at
the Soldiers Home there. "High" Jonas, as he was better
known, left here more than twenty years ago and had never been
back. In spite of the fact that he had never come back, he always
had a warm spot in his heart for the people of this section. The
exact date of his death and the particulars were lacking in the
letter received.
[transcribed by K.W., March 2014]