Abram Jones, residing at 121 Turin Street, died suddenly from heart disease at 2:40 p.m. today.

When stricken, Mr. Jones was at work on a scaffold on N. Madison Street. Mr. Jones and a helper were engaged in plastering the curved arch over the pulpit, standing on a scaffold 20 feet high. Mr. Jones was in a bending posture when he crawled underneath a scantling and said to his helper, “I have an awful pain.”

Scarcely had he uttered those words when he reeled and would have fallen from the scaffold had it not been for the help of his assistant, who caught him about the body and gently laid his upon the scaffold. Before this was accomplished Mr. Joes had passed away.

Coroner Lehr was summoned and word was sent to his employers, Parry and Jones and W.es of the firm went to the scene.

Thomas Hughes, a son-in-law of Mr. Jones, one of the janitors at the Rome post office was immediately called to the church. Mr. Jones was at work on Friday and, feeling unwell, went home. This morning his family tried to persuade him not to go to work but he said he felt better and thought he would try it.

Abram Jones was born in Rhiw, Carnarvonshire, North Wales, January 6th, 1844 and came to America with his parents in 1851. They located in Turin, Lewis County, and there Mr. Jones Sr., carried on a blacksmith shop until his death in 1853. Abram worked on a farm until 1862, when on August 12th, he enlisted in Company M., third Battalion, Fifth New York Heavy Artillery. The company was mustered in on September 12th, 1862, and saw much active service at the front.

While serving on picket on June 20th, 1864, Mr. Jones suffered a very severe sun stroke. He was placed in a church in the Shenandoah Valley, where with others he was receiving treatment when General Jubal A. Early, made his famous raid. A hundred pound shell was thrown diagonally through the church and the patients were forced to flee for their lives.

While crossing the skirmish line to get to the union troops, Mr. Jones was overcome and would have died on the field had it not been for a sergeant who picked him up and carried him to a place of safety. Many efforts were afterward made by Mr. Jones to ascertain the identity of the Sergeant, but without success.

Upon receiving his discharge at Harper’s Ferry, June 26th, 1865, Mr. Jones returned to Turin, where he resumed farming but found it necessary to discontinue the work on account of the recurrence of attacks of illness resulting from the sun stroke. He then took up harness making and in 1869 came to Rome to enter the employ of Keith and Barnard. Later he was employed by D. L. Ketcham Sr.

In 1872 he engaged in the trade of plasterer and mason, finding that occupation best for his health. He had since followed that trade.

Mr. Jones had always been a Republican in politics and served the fifth ward of this city in the Board of Supervisors for the years 1893-4-5. He was also inspector of county buildings for Rome during a part of his term. He has served as president of the Masons and Plasterers Union, and was a member of Dyfed Lodge, True Ivorites, and Roman Lodge, No 223, F. and A. M. He had been a deacon of the Welsh Presbyterian Church since 1882, and had been treasurer of the church for 12 years.

In 1870, Mr. Jones was married to Ann Andrews of Camroden. Her death occurred in December 1891. One daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hughes, 121 Turin Street, one sister, Miss Mary E. Jones, who lived with Mr. Jones and one brother, John A Jones of Utica, survive.

Mr. Jones was a man of many excellent qualities, and had a kindly word for all. He had a wide circle of friends, who will be pained to hear of his death.

Rome Sentinel Monday November 6th, 1911