Monday, 1 June 2020

Albert D Jones gravestone

An Albert Delmont Jones gravestone

When I did a series of articles on Albert Delmont Jones some years ago (reprinted and revised on this blog) there was one grave marker I did not use. I always ask permission of the Find a Grave photographer to republish their work, and this has always been granted. Sometimes it has been a relative with more information. However, there was this one exception, now published here. I tried several times but never received a reply. It may be that the person is no longer involved with the Find a Grave site. So I am publishing it here with a credit to Find a Grave.

It is not the clearest of photographs, but relates by association to the bad boy of Watch Tower history, Albert Delmont Jones.  It is part of the Bown family plot in the Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh. The stone on the left mentions the daughter, Caroline M Bown (1858-1933), wife of Albert D Jones. Since she divorced ADJ for infidelity after twelve years of marriage and four children, the ADJ name is probably only recorded because their infant son is buried here too. His name is on the middle stone, Albert D Jones, and although the dates can be misread, other documentation gives his dates as born 2 February 1883 and died 9 April 1883.

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