She died in a tragic car accident only weeks before her mother, Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones, gave birth to her brother, Stephan Gandhi Jones. She was the adoptive daughter of Rev. James Warren Jones and his wife, Marceline. Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.∼Birth name: Kun Eun Soon, adopted at age four by Reverend James Warren Jones and his wife Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones.
Location: Lot 2 K6 Row 2 Space 21 (close to the road between two mature trees)
Indianapolis Recorder, May 16, 1959
Can't Find Integrated Burial Place for Child
The cruelty of man added to the stunning grief of a 6-death highway tragedy this week as a local minister sought in vain for an unsegregated place in which to bury his little adopted Korean daughter.
The Rev. James Jones, pastor of the interracial Peoples Temple which lost four of its leading workers as well as the 4-year-old child in the collision Sunday, said he could not find a non jimcrow burial place in all of Indianapolis cemeteries.
"Oh they would have taken little Stephanie in the white part, despite her color." Rev. Jones said. "But all of us at the church dark skinned and Caucasoid might be interred in the future.
"Finally I decided to stay with my people, and arranged to bury her in a colored location." (By my people the minister meant Negroes, though he is white himself.)
***
"It was still storming when Stephanie was laid to rest. The hole dug for her coffin was half full of water. Jones sobbed as Stephanie was lowered into the muck. He would recall later, "Oh shit, it was cruel, cruel." Quoted from page 95: The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn.
Location: Lot 2 K6 Row 2 Space 21 (close to the road between two mature trees)
Indianapolis Recorder, May 16, 1959
Can't Find Integrated Burial Place for Child
The cruelty of man added to the stunning grief of a 6-death highway tragedy this week as a local minister sought in vain for an unsegregated place in which to bury his little adopted Korean daughter.
The Rev. James Jones, pastor of the interracial Peoples Temple which lost four of its leading workers as well as the 4-year-old child in the collision Sunday, said he could not find a non jimcrow burial place in all of Indianapolis cemeteries.
"Oh they would have taken little Stephanie in the white part, despite her color." Rev. Jones said. "But all of us at the church dark skinned and Caucasoid might be interred in the future.
"Finally I decided to stay with my people, and arranged to bury her in a colored location." (By my people the minister meant Negroes, though he is white himself.)
***
"It was still storming when Stephanie was laid to rest. The hole dug for her coffin was half full of water. Jones sobbed as Stephanie was lowered into the muck. He would recall later, "Oh shit, it was cruel, cruel." Quoted from page 95: The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn.
She died in a tragic car accident only weeks before her mother, Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones, gave birth to her brother, Stephan Gandhi Jones. She was the adoptive daughter of Rev. James Warren Jones and his wife, Marceline. Stephanie was one of six victims in the car accident coming back from Cincinatti.∼Birth name: Kun Eun Soon, adopted at age four by Reverend James Warren Jones and his wife Marceline Mae Baldwin Jones.
Location: Lot 2 K6 Row 2 Space 21 (close to the road between two mature trees)
Indianapolis Recorder, May 16, 1959
Can't Find Integrated Burial Place for Child
The cruelty of man added to the stunning grief of a 6-death highway tragedy this week as a local minister sought in vain for an unsegregated place in which to bury his little adopted Korean daughter.
The Rev. James Jones, pastor of the interracial Peoples Temple which lost four of its leading workers as well as the 4-year-old child in the collision Sunday, said he could not find a non jimcrow burial place in all of Indianapolis cemeteries.
"Oh they would have taken little Stephanie in the white part, despite her color." Rev. Jones said. "But all of us at the church dark skinned and Caucasoid might be interred in the future.
"Finally I decided to stay with my people, and arranged to bury her in a colored location." (By my people the minister meant Negroes, though he is white himself.)
***
"It was still storming when Stephanie was laid to rest. The hole dug for her coffin was half full of water. Jones sobbed as Stephanie was lowered into the muck. He would recall later, "Oh shit, it was cruel, cruel." Quoted from page 95: The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn.
Location: Lot 2 K6 Row 2 Space 21 (close to the road between two mature trees)
Indianapolis Recorder, May 16, 1959
Can't Find Integrated Burial Place for Child
The cruelty of man added to the stunning grief of a 6-death highway tragedy this week as a local minister sought in vain for an unsegregated place in which to bury his little adopted Korean daughter.
The Rev. James Jones, pastor of the interracial Peoples Temple which lost four of its leading workers as well as the 4-year-old child in the collision Sunday, said he could not find a non jimcrow burial place in all of Indianapolis cemeteries.
"Oh they would have taken little Stephanie in the white part, despite her color." Rev. Jones said. "But all of us at the church dark skinned and Caucasoid might be interred in the future.
"Finally I decided to stay with my people, and arranged to bury her in a colored location." (By my people the minister meant Negroes, though he is white himself.)
***
"It was still storming when Stephanie was laid to rest. The hole dug for her coffin was half full of water. Jones sobbed as Stephanie was lowered into the muck. He would recall later, "Oh shit, it was cruel, cruel." Quoted from page 95: The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Guinn.
Inscription
Our Korean Daughter
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
