Isaiah Carpenter Jones was born in Marion County Ohio to J. James Jones and his first wife Abigail Carpenter in 1831. The eldest of three from that marriage, his mother died when he was four. As was the custom, his father married his mother's sister Harriett Carpenter Barks, and she raised him as her own. He was raised upon the family farm on the Green Camp Pike, and soon discovered that he was not a farmer.
In 1859 he married Dorothea Hinamon, The had four children: Margaret, Harriett (Hattie), William and Ethel.
He served his nation in the Union forces during the Civil War. In his later years he attended GAR Conventions.
In 1888 he became the janitor for Union School (later Marion High School) on West Center Street - a position that he held until shortly before his death. In this position,, he was much beloved. School annuals from the 1895-1900 era prove that as student waxed poetic about his kind manners and friendly demeanor.
A volunteer fireman for the town and later city of Marion, when the Central Firehouse on Prospect Street was built next to his own home he was very content with his old friends as new neighbors.
He died in 1914, suffering from advanced cancer of his eye and skull.
Preceding him in death were his children Margaret and William, brother Samuel Jones and sister Sarah Jane (Jones) Dildine.
In 1859 he married Dorothea Hinamon, The had four children: Margaret, Harriett (Hattie), William and Ethel.
He served his nation in the Union forces during the Civil War. In his later years he attended GAR Conventions.
In 1888 he became the janitor for Union School (later Marion High School) on West Center Street - a position that he held until shortly before his death. In this position,, he was much beloved. School annuals from the 1895-1900 era prove that as student waxed poetic about his kind manners and friendly demeanor.
A volunteer fireman for the town and later city of Marion, when the Central Firehouse on Prospect Street was built next to his own home he was very content with his old friends as new neighbors.
He died in 1914, suffering from advanced cancer of his eye and skull.
Preceding him in death were his children Margaret and William, brother Samuel Jones and sister Sarah Jane (Jones) Dildine.
Isaiah Carpenter Jones was born in Marion County Ohio to J. James Jones and his first wife Abigail Carpenter in 1831. The eldest of three from that marriage, his mother died when he was four. As was the custom, his father married his mother's sister Harriett Carpenter Barks, and she raised him as her own. He was raised upon the family farm on the Green Camp Pike, and soon discovered that he was not a farmer.
In 1859 he married Dorothea Hinamon, The had four children: Margaret, Harriett (Hattie), William and Ethel.
He served his nation in the Union forces during the Civil War. In his later years he attended GAR Conventions.
In 1888 he became the janitor for Union School (later Marion High School) on West Center Street - a position that he held until shortly before his death. In this position,, he was much beloved. School annuals from the 1895-1900 era prove that as student waxed poetic about his kind manners and friendly demeanor.
A volunteer fireman for the town and later city of Marion, when the Central Firehouse on Prospect Street was built next to his own home he was very content with his old friends as new neighbors.
He died in 1914, suffering from advanced cancer of his eye and skull.
Preceding him in death were his children Margaret and William, brother Samuel Jones and sister Sarah Jane (Jones) Dildine.
In 1859 he married Dorothea Hinamon, The had four children: Margaret, Harriett (Hattie), William and Ethel.
He served his nation in the Union forces during the Civil War. In his later years he attended GAR Conventions.
In 1888 he became the janitor for Union School (later Marion High School) on West Center Street - a position that he held until shortly before his death. In this position,, he was much beloved. School annuals from the 1895-1900 era prove that as student waxed poetic about his kind manners and friendly demeanor.
A volunteer fireman for the town and later city of Marion, when the Central Firehouse on Prospect Street was built next to his own home he was very content with his old friends as new neighbors.
He died in 1914, suffering from advanced cancer of his eye and skull.
Preceding him in death were his children Margaret and William, brother Samuel Jones and sister Sarah Jane (Jones) Dildine.
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