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Note: Mariah Vaughan Jones Obituaries from Maria Vaughan Jones scrapbook
(Date and source unknown, probably Del Norte Triplicate. Transcribed verbatim)
FALL FATAL FOR OLDEST SETTLER
Mariah Vaughn Jones was born in Peoria, Ill. December 14, 1837, and departed this life
June the 6th, 1926, aged 88 years, 5 months, and 22 days.
In 1852, she with her parents, in company with a number of families from Illinois,
crossed the plains by ox team and settled near Oregon City, Oregon
Among those making up the caravan was a young man of sterling worth, with whom
she became intimately aquainted on the long journey across the prairie, and the boy and
girl friendship thus begun blossomed into a deeper affection that carried them to the altar
in the year following, and on September 25th, 1853, Miss Maria Vaughan became the girl
bride of Martin Van Buren Jones.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones removed from Oregon to Crescent City immediately following their
marriage in the fall of 1853, and were among the first settlers of this region.
Conditions in and around Crescent City were such, that less sturdy stock than that from
which these youthful pioneers were sprung, would have been discouraged and returned
home to their folks, but not so with these young trail blazers. Though surrounded by an
appalling wilderness in which creatures of the wild still predominated, and where the
Indian was little better than a savage, they stayed to hue out of this primevial forest a
home for themselves, and to lay the foundations for a civilization that was destined to
bless all future generations.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones, union was blessed with eight children, five boys and three girls, all
of whom were born in Crescent City, and all survive their mother except two older boys,
Charles and Cyrus, who with their father preceeded her to the better land several years
ago.
To add to the trials and hardships of her already burdened life, she was left with this
large growing family to care and provide for alone -- Mr. Jones being taken from her in
1885, -- but as all who knew her can attest, she proved equal to the task, and has given to
the world a family that is spoken of with honor wherever they have been known.
Mrs. Jones had been in poor health a long while, and through her children have
importuned her to give up her little home up on H Street and come and make her home
with them where she could be cared for in her declining years, she has persistantly
refused, and would not even allow any of them to stay with her, fearing to be a burden
upon them. The independence that was forded upon her at the death of her dear husband,
dominated her mind in all her later life. She was happiest that way, and though her dear
daughter, Mrs. Ellsworth kept constant watch, and stood ready to provide very care, and
to supply every need, yet knowing her mother�s disposition and what she would like
most, she did not seek to break down those characteristics that had been woven into her
nature by those earlier years of self reliance, but wisely refrained from any show of
ministry that would cause Grandma to feel that she was a burden in any way.
Last Saturday morning, while making her way from her bed to the kitchen using a chair
to steady her tottering steps, she fell and dislocated her hip. Finding it impossible to
relocate the bone with out the use of anasthetics they were applied and while under their
influence she slipped away from us.
She leaves three sons, Quincy, Martin and Walter, and three daughters, Mrs. Clara
Henderson of Oregon, Emma Ellsworth of this City, and Dolly Ridgely of Seattle
Washington, besides numerous grandchildren, one brother, Stuart Vaughan of
McMinnville, Oregon, and a host of relatives and friends bereaved by her loss. Mrs. Jones
was a great-great grandmother, being survived by several great-great grandchildren.
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(Source unknown, probably Humboldt Times, verbatim transcription)
ARCATAN�S MOTHER PASSES AWAY Mrs. Maria Jones, mother of Quincy A. Jones of Arcata, passed away at her home in
Crescent City, Saturday June 5, at the age of 88 years, 6 months. Deceased was one of the
first of Crescent City pioneers having lived there since the early eighty�s.
Deceased was born December 14, 1837 in Missouri and came west, settling at Dalles,
Oregon, in 1852, later marrying Martin Jones at Middleton, Oregon and settled at
Crescent City shortly after. Her husband passed away in 1883.
The lady leaves six children. They are C Cara Henderson of McKinleyville, Oregon;
Quincy A. Jones of Arcata; Emma Ellsworth of Crescent City; Martin Jones of Crescent
City; Walter Jones of Lassen County and Dorothy Ridgley of Seattle, Washington. Two
other sons, Charles, and Cyrus passed away several years ago.
The funeral was held at Crescent City, Tuesday, June 8 at [missing] p.m.
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