... Joseph Jones, Jr., died at the house of his oldest son, Alexander Jones, in Charleston, South Carolina, of fever, August 22d, 1799, aged 62, and was buried in St. Philip's churchyard. Many years after, his granddaughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Dabney, caused his grave and the stone, which had fallen into decay, to be fully repaired. ...
The following is also to be seen in St. Philip's Churchyard :
Died the 22d of August, 1799,
JOSEPH JONES,
of Milford, State of Massachusetts,
in the 62d year of his age, after three days' sickness of an
epidemic fever. He left a wife and four children in
Milford and five children in this city to
lament his sudden death.
This stone is erected to the memory of an affectionate parent
by his oldest son.