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Note: 1890 directory of Adams County farmers:
JONES, F. Logan (township) renter, p o Holstein.
I assume this is Friend Jones. Logan township is located directly south of Holstein.
1885 Nebraska state census: Friend is living with his parents, Seymour Jones.
Seymour was a homesteader in Section 2, Logan township
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Green Lawn Cemetery tombstone and Cemetery records; Berthoud, CO.: Pharon A. Jones bought ten grave plots in Block 22 for his family and brother Friend E. Jones is buried with them. For Friend, cemetery record had b. Oct.-14-1867, stone had b. Oct. 13, 1866; death recorded April 2, 1902.
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Berthoud Bulletin, Berthoud, CO April 26, 1902: DIED. JONES. -- Thursday night at his home in Berthoud, of consumption, Friend Jones, aged 36 years and 8 months. The deceased was born in Dundee, Monroe Co., Michigan, April 24th, 1865. He has lived in Colo. about 7 years. He leaves a wife, 6 children, father, mother, 2 brothers, and 2 sisters, to mourn his loss. His brother Fay and sister Mrs. A.B. Caldwell, of Longmont, Colo. were with him when he died. He was buried from the U.B. Church at 1 o'clock yesterday p.m. in the Berthoud cemetery. Rev. O.A. Smith conducted the service.
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Cynthia Fischer:
The events involved in the lives of our ancestors determining how they meet, marry and with the passing of generations one knows life on this earth, is most too much to contemplate. I can imagine a young man, Friend Jones, going for supplies for his homestead over in Morris, Nebraska, on west of his parents' home which was about two and a half miles south of Holstein, and meeting a beautiful young lady with snapping brown eyes, a mass of thick long brown hair, laughing with her Kestler cousins, for she had a reputation of being the life of the party. She must have had a way to charm men (she out-lived three husbands) and by March 4, l888 and just before her l9th birthday, and Friend's 22nd, they were married.
These two young people shared common factors, both from large families whose fathers had left young families to fight with the Union Army and had experienced sorrow for buried siblings, but Friend was not an orphan as was Cynthia Ann.
Full of hope and the opportunity of having land of their own the young couple moved into the soddy on the Morris homestead. Four months after his marriage, a second sister was buried in the Jones cemetery in a homemade pine coffin made by her father Seymour, in a grave dug by him as he had done for the previous three children, Anna in l870, Dewitt in l883, Fred, the school teacher who walked the prairie in his bare feet to save his shoes from the mud, sickened and died at 22 years of age, and now Jenny at l8 years old. Did she die of dyptheria which was rampant in the area or consumption which was prevalent in the family?
A picture of a tall, slim father holding the hand of his first-born son Horace alongside baby Russell seated on a chair beside twenty-one year old Cynthia standing in front of a fancy wooden rocker, conjures images of the hardships of survival on the Nebraska plains. The boys are dressed in long white dresses-how did Cynthia keep them clean? They are dressed in their best for the traveling photographer.
In the background is the soddy, their home, probably with dirt floor, a barn, team of horses beside the wagon, chicken pen, hay corral. And Cynthia is pregnant with Clarence-three little boys in three years.
A son Seymour, named for his grandfather is born in l893. The year l894 is a time for decision. the entire state is suffering from severe drought, hot winds, crop failures and death of livestock, corn at ll cents a bushel. Cynthia Ann is pregnant again. The baby Seymour dies from complications of a bean stuck in his nose. Some time after his burial in the Morris Cemetery on March 31, l894, the little family boards the train out of Holstein and heads for Colorado. Six years of marriage have passed. Friend is not feeling strong. Perhaps the mountain air in Colorado will be beneficial to his health.
They settled in Plattville, at least until a daughter, Grace is born on October l4, l894. News from Friend's oldest sister Clara (Alfred Caldwell) who had settled in Longmont in l890 perhaps encouraged the family's move, and it meant family support for the hard times which would surely come.
The l900 census from Weld County, Sunnyside Precinct, lists Friend's birth as August, l866, age 33 (Census usually held in June) Cynthia A., age 31, and now the additions of daughter Blanche, Jan.7, l898, and Warren, Aug., l899. Blanche was born in Berthoud, suppose Warren was also.
The 1900 Census lists Seymour and Maria Jones as living in Ault with daughter Jessie and Pharen. Consequently they were nearby when their son Friend lost his battle with tuberculosis April 2, 1902.
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Cynthia Fischer, concerning photo "Jones, Friend_Cynthia_Nebraska Soddy 1891": A picture of a tall, slim father holding the hand of his first-born son Horace alongside baby Russell seated on a chair beside twenty-one year old Cynthia standing in front of a fancy wooden rocker, conjures images of the hardships of survival on the Nebraska plains. The boys are dressed in long white dresses...how did Cynthia keep them clean? They are dressed in their best for the traveling photographer.
In the background is the soddy, their home, probably with dirt floor, a barn, team of horses beside the wagon, chicken pen, hay corral. And Cynthia is pregnant with Clarence-three little boys in three years.
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