Daughter of the late Charles Lee, Attorney General of the United States under the administration of Washington and Adams, and grand-daughter, by the mother's side, of Richard Henry Lee, Mrs. Jones inherited a full share of the talents for which her family were long remarkable. To such talents were united qualities and endowments to give them the highest effect in the embellishment and diffusive utility of life.
With uncommon promptitude, activity, and energy of mind, irrepressible ardor in the pursuit of its objects, a quick susceptibility of every generous and noble and tender impulse, the whole force of her character seemed concentrated in a soul-inspiring, elevated, and enlightened piety, in a pure self-devotion to all the complicated duties of her station as Wife, Mother, Friend, and Neighbor, and in a disinterested abandonment of selfish aims and gratifications, very rarely found in one so eminently gifted by nature and education, and solicited by opportunity, to partake the innocent gaieties and enjoyments of the world.
But it would be superfluous to dwell on the excellencies of a character sufficiently known and valued in this community; and why, alas! recount her virtues and endowments but to sum up the losses suffered by her death. Losses extensively and deeply felt by society, but unspeakable, irreparable, to a husband long accustomed to confide to her the dearest interest of his heart, to eleven surviving children, most of them at that tender age which they can look for nothing of this world to supply the care of such a mother.
The funeral from the residence of Gen. Jones, on Capitol Hill, tomorrow (Wednesday, 20th) at 10 o'clock.
Daughter of the late Charles Lee, Attorney General of the United States under the administration of Washington and Adams, and grand-daughter, by the mother's side, of Richard Henry Lee, Mrs. Jones inherited a full share of the talents for which her family were long remarkable. To such talents were united qualities and endowments to give them the highest effect in the embellishment and diffusive utility of life.
With uncommon promptitude, activity, and energy of mind, irrepressible ardor in the pursuit of its objects, a quick susceptibility of every generous and noble and tender impulse, the whole force of her character seemed concentrated in a soul-inspiring, elevated, and enlightened piety, in a pure self-devotion to all the complicated duties of her station as Wife, Mother, Friend, and Neighbor, and in a disinterested abandonment of selfish aims and gratifications, very rarely found in one so eminently gifted by nature and education, and solicited by opportunity, to partake the innocent gaieties and enjoyments of the world.
But it would be superfluous to dwell on the excellencies of a character sufficiently known and valued in this community; and why, alas! recount her virtues and endowments but to sum up the losses suffered by her death. Losses extensively and deeply felt by society, but unspeakable, irreparable, to a husband long accustomed to confide to her the dearest interest of his heart, to eleven surviving children, most of them at that tender age which they can look for nothing of this world to supply the care of such a mother.
The funeral from the residence of Gen. Jones, on Capitol Hill, tomorrow (Wednesday, 20th) at 10 o'clock.
Family Members
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Virginia Collins Jones Miller
1809–1892
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Walter Jones Jr
1810–1829
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Ann Lee "Nannie" Jones Peyton
1812–1905
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Rosina Lee Jones Packard
1814–1891
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Mary Elizabeth Jones Harrison
1815–1874
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Catherine Ella Jones
1820–1863
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Anne Harriot Jones Harrison
1822–1894
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Frances Lee Jones
1823–1911
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S Cornelia Jones
1824–1903
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Violetta Lansdale Jones
1826–1875
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Thomas Walter Jones
1827–1853
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