Published in The Pilot May 26, 1926

Mrs. A. C. Jones passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. R. Mead, in Sioux City, Ia., at 4 o’clock this morning and the body will be brought here for the funeral service at the Methodist Church at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. She had been very low for several weeks from the effects of a fall some two months ago. She held onto life with wonderful tenacity for one of her years, she being in her 79th year. Martha Henrietta Hancock was born in Winslow, Stevenson County, Ill., October 8th, 1847. When a girl of nine years she came to the county with her parents in 1856 and settled at Fontanelle, then a thriving little city, where she grew to womanhood. There she met and married A. C. Jones on December 6th, 1869. Later they removed to this city where Mr. Jones was manager of what was for years the Peavey Elevator Co., later Holmquist Co. Five children were born to them, one dying in infancy. Mrs. C. R. Mead of Sioux City, Ia. is the eldest, Bud lives in Clifton, Arizona, Mrs. Earl Stanfield in Omaha and Mrs. Fred Robertson in Herman. Mr. Jones died in 1920 and was buried in the old Fontanelle Cemetery, where Mrs. Jones will be laid Sunday afternoon. She is survived by one sister Mrs. E. C. Spillman, of this city, and two brothers, Rev. E. J. Hancock, of this city, and B. F. Hancock, who lives in the northwest part of the county. Mrs. Jones was a member of the Methodist Church and of the W. R. C., of this city. As a member of the now famous Fontanelle colony Mrs. Jones suffered the hardships of pioneer life, for which she is deserving of special notice and honors. There are few now living who have lived in the county for almost 70 years. The bereaved family has the sincere sympathy of their many friends.

Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clipping on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.