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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Confusion in an Obituary

 From The [Pittsburgh] Index, August 22, 1908.

WILLIAMS- Mrs . Birda Evaline Williams, aged 44 years, wife of Edward A. Williams and president of the Pittsburgh Sunshine Children's Home, died on Wednesday at the Homeopathic Hospital, following operation. Mrs. Williams was born at Bruceton, W. Va ., and was a daughter of Delmont and Martha Jones. She came to Pittsburgh with her parents when a child. 

December 27, 1880, she was married to Mr. Williams and since has resided in North Lang Avenue. She leaves her husband, one son, Sidney F.; a daughter, Mrs. W. E. Jones; one grandchild, two brothers, Delmont Jones, of Pittsburgh, and Albert Jones, of Cincinnati, and a sister, Mrs. Fielding Frasher, Washington, Pa.





3 comments:

jerome said...

Lots of Jones's and Delmont's. The bad boy of Watch Tower history (who published Zion's Day Star) would be the Albert Jones of Cincinnati. His third wife Bambina said she'd been married to someone from Cincinnati in a newspaper interview c. 1922,

B. W. Schulz said...

Was there truly a second brother with the first name Delmont? Or is this a bit of confusion?

jerome said...

According to the family tree prepared many years ago by Ton, Albert Delmont Jones ("our" ADJ) had a younger brother named Delmont Jones (c.1875-1923). He seems to have spent his life in the Pittsburgh area. Both brothers are mentioned in the obit in the post.