TITLE:  Richard Turpin Jones

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Richard Turpin Jones was the eighth child of  John H. "Jack" and 
Maria Louise Dean Jones.

Jones Services to be Held Today
(Richard Turpin Jones 11/4/1866 - 11/27/1945  m. Margaret (Maggie) 
Alsippa Stone 12/1876- Oct. 19, 1955)
Funeral services for Richard T. Jones, 79, lifelong resident of 
Anderson County , who died at his home on South Main Street yesterday 
morning at 3:10 o'clock following an illness of two weeks, will be 
held from the family residence this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Dr. F.C. 
McConnell will conduct the services and burial will be in Silver Brook
cemetery. Mr. Jones was a son of the late Jack H. Jones and Louisa 
Dean Jones, members of well known families of this section of the 
state. He was born and reared at the Jones homestead just south of 
the city, and spent practically all of his life in and around Anderson.
Mr. Jones was a member of the Flat Rock Baptist Church, and was held 
in high esteem by a wide circle of relatives and friends who are 
saddened by news of his passage. Surviving Mr. Jones, who was a 
retired farmer, are his widow, Mrs. Maggie Stone Jones, two sons and 
seven daughters as follows: Raymond C. Jones and Sam D. Jones, both 
of Anderson; Mrs. Mamie Wooten of Broxton, GA; Mrs. Guy Snow, Mrs. 
Madge Clements, Mrs. Julian King, and Mrs. Nell Poole, all of 
Anderson; Mrs. Jeter Ducker of Miami, Florida, and Miss Winnie Jones 
of Winston-Salem, NC. He was the last surviving member of his 
immediate family. Active pallbearers will be Marshall Jones, James 
Jones, Keaton Jones, Frank Elrod, Billy Trammell and Bobby Trammell.
Composing the honorary escort will be S.M. Jones, Dean Jones, Robert
Nicholson, C.R. Stone, Austin Elrod, and I.O. Kay. The body will be 
in state at the residence until the hour of the services. The 
McDougald-Johnston Funeral Home is in charge."
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