OBITUARY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10533, 20 January 1912, Page 5

OBITUARY

MR JOHN JONES. (Special to the Age.) . CARTERTON, January 19. The many friends of Mr John Jones, of Pembroke Street, Carterton, will regret to hear of his death, ! which took place rather suddenly at noon yesterday. The deceased gentleman had been in feeble health for Borne years, but was able to get I about, and bis decease will be rather a shock to Ins many friends. He witli has wife and daughter, intended going to their sons' far mi at Matarawa,vbut- soon. after getting into the phaeton, q, severe heart- seizure took, hold, of'him. They xkove. a;t once, to Dr"" Johnston'sjl-who ■immediately""'ordered him hohW to bed; and- witfiiii. -arc hour or. two hie parsed away. He j had reached the ripe age of 76. The' 4 wi]J take nlace on Sunday, l at Greyiown. The late Mi' JbfleB T j death once more reminds us of the j ever-increasing gaps in the number of j our early settlers. He was a son of the late Mr Henry Jones, who died ' about ten years ago in Masterton, I the gentleman who started the first | Sunday School in Masterton. He I was born in Little Preston, North-) amptonshire, and came out in\ the ' ship London, arriving in Wellington I in _ 1842. The family shortly after shifted to Wadestown, and later on removed to Karon, at Which place | they were in at the time of the 1848 , earthquake. Coming to the Hutt soon after ,they later on decided to try the Wairarapa, and with his father, the late Mr Jones crossed the Rimutakas in 1854, leaving the younger portion of the family till a '■ home was provided. They reached] Masterton, and proceeded to saw the! timber and build the first weather-1 hoard house that* Masterton possess- ' ed. After the family had settled j down. Mr Jones crossed to the Nel- | son worked in theVLyttelton tunnel, and thence proceeded to Gabriel's Gully, and the Southland diggings, finally coming back to the Wairarapa. He was married to a daughter of the late Mr Blade, wellknown in the district, and settled at Featherston to farming pursuits, afterwards coming to Matarawa, where they lived for a number of years, till the sons took over the farm, and the parents retired to spend their declining years in Carterton. Many will rememh-er the welcome that was ex-J tended by the "anuly to any who chanced to come their way. Besides leaving a large grown up family, two ibi'others and two sisters-remain • to ■•mourn their losa, a... being wellknown in this district. .For many years he was superintendent, of the .Mataraway and later Dalefield, Sunday Schools., and right up to the time of his death took, keen. interest in •the Methodist Church, last S.nnday seeing him in his accustomed Place.