Clarissa Jones

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Birth: Mar. 24, 1841 Yellowbud Ross County Ohio, USA

Death: Apr. 20, 1919 Bucktail Arthur County Nebraska, USA

OBITUARY: THE TECUMSEH CHIEFTAN

CAME HERE IN YEAR 1866

Mrs. Clarissa Jones died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry C. Wakeman, near Bucktail, near McPhearson, at noon, on Sunday, April 20, 1919. She had been in failing health for some time, and, in a fall last January, sustained a broken hip. The lady had been helpless since. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia. Mrs. Jones was aged seventy-eight years and twenty-six day. Clarissa Shasteen was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shasteen and she was born near Yellowbud, Ross county, Ohio, on March 24, 1841. When she was six years old her parents located in Fulton county, Ills., establishing their home on a farm on Cooper's Creek. Following a residence of two years there, there moved to Canton, Ills., where they resided for five years, and then moved to Logan county, going onto a farm on Salt Creek. At the age of seventeen years, on March 25, 1858, Clarissa was united in marriage in Logan county to Mr. Henry Jones, and they established there home in the same county and continued to live there for eight years. In the fall of 1866 the family decided to come west , to Nebraska, and they traveled from Illinois by wagon. They had two teams and they were accompanied by two Curtis families, also from Illinois. The party crossed the Missouri river at Nebraska City, and the early day ferry boat got stuck on a sandbar under the load, and was tied up in the middle of the treacherous old river for the greater part of the day. The families were brought to Spring Creek, this county, a considerable settlement being there at that time, and the men picked out claims and went to Brownsville to file on them. All located on what was known as Coon Creek, about seven miles north of Tecumseh. While houses were being made the families camped on the prairie. The first houses were made by excavating to a depth of about seven feet, and making a roof of poles, brush and hay, and piling dirt on the top of these. The winter of 1867 was a hard one, next spring the men went to breaking prairie and getting some of their lands in readiness for crops. Then followed a period of very hard times, the grasshoppers and drought destroying much of the meager crops for a few years. As time went on conditions seemed to get better , people became more prosperous and better houses and barns were provided. Then came the early school houses and churches, and southeastern Nebraska commenced to have a more inviting appearance to the settlers or prospective ones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones as pioneers, went through the many hardships of the early settlers, but they weathered the storm and lived to enjoy the fruits of a wonderfully improved country of a later day. Mr. Jones died here on December 19, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Jones were blessed with six children, two only of whom are now living, being the daughter, Mrs. Wakeman, and a son, Edward Jones, who lives at Bakersfield, Cal. Mrs. O. J. Davison of Tecumseh is a sister of Mrs. Jones and Edward Shasteen of Cook is a brother. Mrs. Jones had been a member of the Women's relief Corps of Tecumseh for years. She was a devoted wife, mother and splendid neighbor. Mrs. Jones, a member of the M. E. Church, was interested in church work and was a willing assistant in any undertaking for the cause. The daughter and the son and other relatives have the sympathy of their friends in their bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. Wakeman accompanied the remains to tecumseh reaching here, Tuesday afternoon. Other relatives living out of the city to come here at that time were Bert Wakeman and family of North Platte, Al Wakeman and family of Auburn, Albert Shasteen and family and Helen Stollard of Lincoln, and Ralph Wakeman of Alexandria, S. Dakota. The funeral was held at the Davison home, at 2:00 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, the service being conducted by rev. Earl E. Brown, pastor of the Methodist Church. The interment was in the family lot at Tecumseh cemetery.

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Parents:

• Edward Shasteen (1817 - 1891)
• Caroline Fowler Casky Shasteen (1820 - 1867)

Spouse:

*Henry Whorton Jones (1838 - 1912)*

Children:

*Mary Carolyn Jones Stollard (1859 - 1899)*

• Anna Elizabeth Jones Wakeman (1861 - 1937)*
• James William Jones (1878 - 1892)*

Burial: Tecumseh Cemetery Tecumseh Johnson County Nebraska, USA

Created by: James Record added: Aug 31, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 21269097