Jones, Charles Gesham

Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 30, 1911 page 1
[another article on page 11 and April 1, 1911 page 3]

C. G. Jones, State Builder, Is Dead
Prominent Oklahoma City Capitalist Known All Over Southwest
Funeral On Friday
Business Will Be Suspended in Oklahoma City During Service

Charles Gresham Jones, 55 year old, an 89'er in Oklahoma City, state builder and one of the men most active in the building of Oklahoma City, is dead. The end came suddenly Wednesday morning at his home, 611 East Eighth street.

Mr. Jones had been indisposed for several days from indigestion and had remained at his home. Wednesday he told Mrs. Jones that he felt better and that he was going to the city. He remained at home at his wife's solicitation. At 11 o'clock he called to her in a peculiar tone. Mrs. Jones called her brother, James Wheeler, and they went into the library where he was sitting. He asked them to help him to a lounge. As they laid him down, blood gushed from his mouth. He died almost instantly. The physician said that death was probably due to a hemorrhage of the stomach.

The funeral will be held at the family residence Friday at 2 o'clock. Interment will be at Fairlawn cemetery. Dr. George H. Bradford of Epworth university and A. K. Riley will deliver the funeral sermons. Mr. Jones was a Mason of high degree, being a Knights Templar and a Shriner. The Mason will take a prominent part in the funeral services. Mr. Jones was also an Elk.

Among the relatives are his widow, Mrs. Nettie Wheeler Chappel-Jones, a son, Luther, by a former marriage, G. M. Jones and Mrs. Mary Hallett, a brother and sister in southeastern Missouri, and Logan Jones, a half brother of near Jones City. The out of town relatives have been notified.

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C. G. Jones was born at Greenup, Cumberland county, Illinois, November 3, 1856 and as a farmer lived there until he came to Oklahoma, in 1889, locating at Oklahoma City, where he built the first flour mill that was erected in the new territory.

H. Jones and Rebecca (Wall) Jones, parents of C. G. Jones, were early settlers in Illinois, where in 1860 his mother died. His father moved to Vernon county, Missouri, where he died in 1890.

C. G. Jones was married to Miss Tena Stafford, in Cumberland county, Illinois. She died in Oklahoma City, May 3, 1901. He was married about two years ago to Mrs. Nettie Wheeler-Chappel.

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Equally well known as a farmer, he has at Jones City one of the model farms of Oklahoma. Consisting of 800 acres of rich bottom land... [much omitted about his personal accomplishments]

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