The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 10, July 1906 - April, 1907 Page: 179
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Sketch of Oliver Jones and His Wife, Rebecca Jones. 179
tained at his home, where he and his wife gladly shared their pros-
perity with friends and with the stranger within their gates. While
they never parted with this home, yet about 1859 they moved to
Galveston and purchased a handsome residence, where they lived
until the breaking out of the war between the States obliged them,
together with most of the residents of Galveston, to refugee to the
interior of the State, Thereafter, appreciating in their old age
more and more the companionship of dear friends, they spent much
of their time in Houston, and Mrs. Jones died in that city, at the
residence of Colonel Cornelius Ennis on December 24th, 1865. She
and her husband were greatly beloved by all this family, whose
younger members, in common with a few others of old friends,
showed their love by endearing titles of make-believe kinship; ad-
dressing them always as "Uncle," and "Aunty Jones." Their de-
votion to each other was of a type seldom equalled-never sur-
passed. Each lived for the other, and both for their friends. This
excellent pair, without children, by the charm of their friendli-
ness, were made members of a family circle limited only by the
number of children of their friends.
Mrs. Jones was well educated; she was gentle and dignified in
manner, tall and well formed, attractive in person, and gifted with
fine conversational powers. The courage and fortitude displayed
during the perilous period of her first years in Texas flashed
through her black eyes and were traced in the firm lines which
marked the features of an unusually pleasing face. Those who knew
her well had only words of praise and love for this worthy com-
patriot, a woman cast in heroic mould. She was a member of the
Prodestant Episcopal Church, and at her death was buried in the
cemetery of that church, now known as the old Episcopal and
Masonic cemetery.
Oliver Jones survived his devoted wife less than one year. On
September 17th, 1866, at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Merri-
weather, on Congress Street, Houston, Texas, he breathed his last,
and was laid by the side of his wife. A graceful, Italian monolith,
tall and stately, bearing a simple inscription, the name of Oliver
Jones, place of birth, date of death, and a partial record of his
noble service for Texas, and the name Rebecca Jones, with the date
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