Edith Jones

1879 - Aft 1911  (32 years)

• Name	Edith Jones  [1]
  Birth	15 Aug 1879	Iowa   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft Aug 1911	Possibly Colorado
  Person ID	I84	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Richard Thomas Jones, 1,   b. Bef Feb 1848, Wisconsin d. Bef 1910, Knox County, Nebraska (Age ~ 61 years)
  Mother	Josephine Hurley,   b. Abt Jun 1853, Pleasant, Grant Co, Indiana d. Abt 1922 (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1874	Iowa
  Family ID	F57	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Herbert Merton Cooley,   b. 15 Oct 1875, McGregor, Clayton Co, Iowa d. 4 Nov 1914, Yankton, Yankton Co, South Dakota (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	29 Jun 1910	Crofton, Knox Co, Nebraska   [2]
  Children	1. Edith Dixie Cooley,   b. 4 Aug 1911, Flagler, Kit Carson Co, Colorado d. 10 Aug 1981, Chicago, Cook Co, Illinois (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F20	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Crofton, Knox Co., Nebraska by the Nebraska Historical Society RICHARD AND JOSEPHINE JONES Richard Thomas Jones was born shortly after the family immigrated from Wales and landed at Ellis Island. Their first home in America was in Wisconsin: they later moved to northeast IA (this would be Howard Co., IA). In 1881 Richard Jones and his wife Josephine (Hurley) moved to Knox Co., NE. They and their three children, Edith, Wilbur and Libbie, homesteaded one mile south and one half mile west of Crofton. The farm is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kohles and their son Kevin and family (at the time of printing anyway...not sure about now) Mr. Jones loved singing which is characteristic of the Welsh people. Even though times were hard and material things were hard to come by, the home was filled with music, games and other forms of creative entertainment. The closest town in the area was Hartington, where they took wheat to be ground into flour. Mrs. Jones churned butter which they exchanged for things they couldn't raise. Mr. Jones passed away in his early 50's. After his death, Mrs. Jones moved into Crofton where she lived in the house located on the lot where Larry Crosley built his home. Edith Jones married Merton Cooley, editor of the Crofton Journal, who later was drowned in the Missouri River following an accident on the pontoon bridge. They had one daughter, Dixie. Edith Jones Cooley passed away when Dixie was three years old. Following her mother's death, Dixie went to live with her grandmother Jones. Libbie Jones was a country school teacher. She passed away at the age of 16 of diphtheria and was buried in the family plot with her father and sister, Edith. Wilbur Jones stayed on the farm and married Laura Rissler. Their family consisted of seven children: Elizabeth, Richard, Wellington, Bob, Bill, Mary Jo and Laurie. Wilbur's mother passed away in 1922 and was buried beside her husband and two daughters, Edith and Libbie. At this time, Dixie Cooley came and made her home with Wilbur and Laura and their family. Wilbur passed away in 1948 and his ashes were scattered on the hills of the farm where he played as a boy. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), 1900 US census Nebraska-Knox-Eastern Dist. #T623-932 p76A (Reliability: 3). [S285] Denise Desmond e-mail. [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), In the 1880 Federal Census (Iowa-Howard-Albion-ED#240, NA Film # T0-0344, pg 425D) dated June 1, she is shown as being age 9/12 with notation of being born in August. (Reliability: 3).