Gone Hence

A Brief Illness From Peritonitis and Postmaster Jones Receives His Summons to Join the Great Majority

David M. Jones, Napoleon's Postmaster, passed from life Sunday morning at 7:30 o'clock. Peritonitis accompanied with kidney trouble and blood poisoning were the direct causes of his demise, and in this they were speedy agents in bringing their victim to bed of death in the short space of ten days actual illness. From at first he was considered by the attending physician to be in a precarious condition and the family was given but little hope for his recovery. Saturday he began to sink steadily and early Sunday morning life became extinct, thereby dealh, rising forth from the couch of lasting night, stealing away with one who, at the head of a large family, gave movement and direction to all; removing from sight one of our most prominent citizens and familiar figures; and depriving the mail service of an efficient and well-liked official.

The funeral ceremonies the last sad rites over an honored dead were solemnized from the late residence Tuesday afternoon under the auspices of Choats Post, G. A. R., with Rev. Ballmer officiating. The remains were laid away in Glenwood cemetery.

David Marshal Jones was born in West Virginia July 3rd, 1831, of Scotch parentage. Two years after his birth his parents moved to Tuscarawas county where be lived until the war broke out. He was married to Martha Jane Brown March 27th, 1851. At the breaking out of the war he was among the first to enlist in a nation's cause, serving all through the strife and gaining a most enviable war record. He served as First Lieutenant of Company H, 51st O. V. I., under Colonel Stanley Matthews.

Shortly after returning from the service he removed with his family to Napoleon, which place he has made his residence ever since a period of twenty-six years.

During this time he engaged in several kinds of business and was more or less before the people politically being an out and out republican, though not to a degree that might be termed offensive partisanship. In fact, his politics were of that commendable form that while there was no doubt respecting his good republicanism, he never allowed his belief to assume such expressed shape as to bitterly antagonize those of different opinions. He was no bitter partisan and his friends were numbered among democrats as well as republicans. This was demonstrated when be was elected marshal three times in a democratic corporation. Also, when he received his commission as postmaster of Napoleon in 1890, it was with general satisfaction to all regardless of politics. He also served as deputy U. S. Marshal several terms.

He was a most respected member and earnest worker of Choate Post, having served two terms a Post Commander.

That Mr. Jones' demise is greeted with profound sorrow and sympathy for the family, we all know; that his familiar form and cordial manner and accommodating disposition will be missed on our streets and in the post office, we also realize in all its magnitude, while the fact that we have lost a citizen whom we can ill afford to lose will long remain a deplorable one in the memory