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at the family altar, several of his children were converted and shouted praises to God. On that memorable night in 1833, when the stars fell, light- ing up the universe, Samuel Jones was awakened about three o'clock in the morning and, seeing the phenomenal sight, he, like all who saw it, thought it was the ending of the world or the time of the promised return of Christ. He awoke all his family, calling them to prayer. He made such soul-searching supplications that his youn- gest daughter, Matilda, was converted. When her father arose from prayer and walked back and forth shouting "glory, glory to God," she with the rest was ready to join him in praising God, and they were a whole family ready to meet the judg- ment without fear.

Samuel Jones moved to Henry county, Indiana in 1838 and died of paralysis in 1840, at the age of sixty-eight. His wife, Rachel then went to Dela- ware county, Ind., making her home with her daughter, Matilda Shroyer, until 1866, when she followed her husband to their home above. She lived to the age of ninety-one years, having been born January 5, 1775.

NOTE— For further history of the Jones Family see "A Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Jones Family," by Prof. C. R. [C.R. Jones]