WILLIAM DUDLEY JONES<\/i>, (Uncle Dud), passed\u00a0away, March 22, 1921 in Wartburg, Tenn., at the\u00a0home of Mrs. Julia Brown, his step-daughter.\u00a0 He was\u00a0born February 19, 1845 in Roane County, Tenn., but\u00a0had lived practically all his life in Morgan County.\u00a0 He\u00a0was 76 years, 1 month and 3 days old at his death.\u00a0He was married to Mrs. Margaret Garrett, whose\u00a0maiden name was Cromwell.\u00a0 One child only, a\u00a0daughter, blessed this marriage. His wife and daughter\u00a0preceded him to the grave.\u00a0 He leaves one brother,\u00a0and two sisters to mourn his death. He was a Civil War\u00a0veteran, having enlisted in the Union Army , August,\u00a01861. He served three years in the Army, participating
\nin the battles of Fishing Creek, Kentucky, Stones\u00a0River, Tennessee and\u00a0 various other battles fought\u00a0under General Sherman in the State of Georgia. He\u00a0was laid to rest in the Wartburg Cemetery.\u00a0\u00a0Another cherish veteran of that glorious, fast\u00a0receding army, which fought and bled and died to\u00a0preserve our union, has passed away.\u00a0 It is hard to\u00a0realize that our father, brother, uncle and friend is\u00a0dead.\u00a0 We know that our tears cannot recall him from\u00a0his grave.\u00a0 We can only hope and remember__hope\u00a0that he was right with his God before he died; and we\u00a0have reason to believe he was right with his\u00a0maker.Heed the warning he gave us just before he\u00a0passed into the great beyond, \u201cDo not live the life that\u00a0I have lived.\u201d\u00a0 Signed: RUFUS JONES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WILLIAM DUDLEY JONES, (Uncle Dud), passed\u00a0away, March 22, 1921 in Wartburg, Tenn., at the\u00a0home of Mrs. Julia Brown, his step-daughter.\u00a0 He was\u00a0born February 19, 1845 in Roane County, Tenn., but\u00a0had lived practically all his life in Morgan County.\u00a0 He\u00a0was 76 years, 1 month and 3 days old at his death.\u00a0He was married to Mrs. Margaret… Continue reading Jones, William Dudley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}