Person:Robert Jones (102)

From Craig Snyder, coopsnyder@hotmail.com at his rootsweb WorldConnect Project and copied here.

Robert H. Jones was born on a farm one-mile north from Grangeville, on August 28, 1872, the son of Seth and Jane (Castle) Jones, of Grangeville. He attended the home schools until 1890, when he went east to Lombard University in Galesburg, Illino is, where he took a three-year course. Upon his return here he bought and sold stock, and did real well on several trainloads that he shipped to Chicago. On October 9, 1895, Mr. Jones married Miss Jessie, daughter of John and Jane Pollock of Lewi ston, Illinois. Mrs. Jones died February 11, 1897. at her old home in Illinois, leaving one child five months old, Lillie Esther. On November 9, 1900, Mr. Jones married a second time and on this occasion Miss Pearl Bales, the sister of his partner , became his wife. She died January 3, 1901, at Boise, Idaho, where she was taken for treatment, leaving one child three weeks old, named Rolland Robert. Mr. Jones has his children living with him.

In 1899, Mr. Bales and Mr. Jones engaged in partnership in the stock business on the Salmon River and prosperity attended them in every detail, having in December, 1902, sold their large holdings there for twenty-seven thousand dollars. In Decemb er 1901, they had bought their present place, a mammoth estate of about fifteen hundred acres eight miles north from Grangeville. It is all choice land and is one of the best stock farms in the entire country. They have a good residence, excellen t outbuildings, orchard, and a barn, second to none in the county. They do a general farming business and raise cattle and hogs. They are raising, buying and shipping more stock than any other firm in the entire northern part of the state and ar e veritable leaders in the stock business. Mr. Bales and Mr. Jones are wide awake business men of ability and are of the best standing, being young men to whom great credit is to be given for the financial success that they have achieved. Beginni ng in the battle of life without any property at all, they have steadily risen, by reason of sagacity and industry, to be leaders in this stock country and are the recipients of the esteem and good will of all. They were born on the same date an d have made an excellent showing in their careers.

Mr. Jones is to be commended for the manner in which he has cared for his motherless children. Through his struggles he has at all times kept his children with him, securing a nurse to assist in looking after their welfare.

Source: Author: Various sources Title: Idaho County Biographical Index URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ididaho/idahobios/idahobio.html Text: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NORTH IDAHO EMBRACING NEZ PERCES, IDAHO, LATAH, KOOTENAI, AND SHOSHONE COUNTIES STATE OF IDAHO; WESTERN HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1903

1. ↑ Craig Snyder, coopsnyder@hotmail.com at RootsWeb's WorldConnect, Ancestry.com.
2. ↑ Cemetery inscription readings found on Ancestry.com of Prairie View Cem, Grangeville, ID.