MR. ROBERT L. JONES. PEACH BOTTOM TOWNSHIP, YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Born in Penmachno, Caernarvonshire, he arrived in the United States circa 1860 and presumably settled in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pennsylvania, although he is found there neither in the 1860 census nor the 1863-65 draft registration. A slate miner by trade, he stood 5' 9" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-one in Philadelphia August 22nd, 1862, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Battery A, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (152nd Pennsylvania), although he served for eighteen months not on land but aboard the gunship Schrapnel. Promoted to corporal, date unknown, and to sergeant January 1st, 1865, he honorably discharged June 14, 1865.
He married Welsh-born Isabella Roberts circa 1871 and fathered Emma E. (b. 11/??/72 - married a Smith), John Hayden (09/09/74), Arthur Lee (b. 11/16/77), Isabella (b. 08/??/82), and Idris Robert (b. 06/20/91).
He was a successful developer of a slate mines, became president of the 1st National Bank of Delta, and served as choir director at Rehoboth Welsh Church for thirty years.
He died at his home from "pulmonary tuberculosis" that had nagged him for several years, leaving behind an estate valued at "several hundred thousand dollars."
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MR. ROBERT L. JONES. PEACH BOTTOM TOWNSHIP, YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Mr. Robert L. Jones, one of the best known businessmen on Slate Ridge, died of pulmonary trouble at his home in Delta on Sunday agternoon, aged 62 years.Besides being largely interested in the manufacture of slate, Mr. Jones was president of the First national Bank of Delta and as such wielded an important influence in that section.
He leaves a widow and three sons, Messrs. John H. Jones, Arthur Jones and Idris Jones, od Delta, and two daughters, Mrs. George Smith of Philadelphia and Miss Bella Jones, of Delta.
He was buried on Wednesday afternoon, the services being conducted at Rehoboth Church in Delta. The internment was in Slateville cemetery.