Jones, Jessie (Moon) 1887 - 1941

JONES, MOON, HOLLY, AMUNDSON

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 9/1/2024 at 06:57:28

Clayton County Register, 10 Sept. 1941.

Mrs. Jessie Jones died at 2:50 a.m. in her home at Farmersburg on Sept. 04th at the age of 54 years, 10 months and 14 days.

Mrs. Jessie Jones, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Moon, was born Oct. 21, 1887 in Monona township, this county.

The days of her youth were spent in the parental home. On Dec. 18, 1907, she was united in marriage to Alva Jones. Together with her husband she lived on a farm for a number of years renting until they purchased a farm west of Farmersburg, which continued to be the home until the time of her death.

This union was blessed with four children - Arno, Harris, Clifford and Viola. Of Mrs. Jones it may be truly said, according to the Scripture: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward."

When her second son was but six months old she and her husband stood at his grave. On Jan. 11, she and her three young children stood at the grave of her beloved husband. The problems of a mother left alone with three young children are only known to one who has passed through those days.

For two years, she and her children made their home with her parents. With her children, she then moved back on the farm and went through the trying times of the past depression.

In June of 1936 she was again called upon to stand at the grave of one of her children - Mrs. Lloyd Amundson. Now there were left four grandchildren without a mother's care. The grandmother, Mrs. Jessie Jones took them into her home, the youngest being six weeks old.

Again she was called upon to stand at the open grave, when Burdell, two years of age, died after but six months in her home.

Then in 1938 she, herself, began to be in failing health. Three weeks from the day when she was taken to Rochester for treatments, her own mother was taken by death. Due to her own poor health she could not attend the funeral services of her mother.

Through all these trying times she was never heard to murmur or complain; never did she feel that upon her rested a load heavier than that she might bear.

She leaves to mourn her death two sons, Arno and Clifford, three grandchildren, Lloyd, Marlene and Rose Mary Amundson, her aged father, Will Moon, also four brothers, Ira, Gus of Farmersburg, Leo of Bagley, Wis., Herb, of Elkader; two sisters, Mrs. Joe Holly and Flossie of Farmersburg, besides a host of relatives and friends.