Jones, William (abt1828-1899)

Transcription of Obituary In the Christian Messenger

MR. WILLIAM JONES, farmer, Crasswall, in the Cwm Circuit, was born in the parish of Clodock, about the year 1828. Very little is known of his early life, but for the space of 30 years he was a consistent member of our church at Cwm. A regular attendant at the means of grace, and very hospitable to God’s servants, he was a consistent, pious, upright man. His last illness was brief and severe, but he was perfectly resigned to the Divine Will. He died on Sunday, June 28th, 1899, and his death was improved in our Cwm chapel by Mr. J. Kedward, of Fair Oak. The memory of the just is blessed.

A. STABLER.

Family and other information

William was born in 1828 to parents Samuel and Mary. Samuel was a blacksmith.

William was a farmer.

I have been unable to identify William’s first wife. They married between the 1851 and 1861 census, and William was a widower at the time of the 1861 census. They had one son.

• Samuel (b abt1859) – a farmer (1911)

William was married Harriet Howells (b abt1841) in early 1875 in the Hereford Registration District..

References

Christian Messenger 1899/376

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers