Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Chester H. Jones and Florence Mapes




Husband Chester H. Jones 1

           Born: 7 Jan 1894 - Endeavor, Forest Co, PA 1
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         Father: John J. Jones (1859-      ) 1
         Mother: Isabelle Shaffer (1869-1937) 1


       Marriage: 26 Jun 1920 - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA 1



Wife Florence Mapes 1

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         Father: Harry C. Mapes (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Martha Lock Carpenter (      -      ) 1




Children
1 M Gordon Jones 1

           Born: 22 Jan 1923 1
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2 M John Harrison Jones 1

           Born: 9 Oct 1927 1
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General Notes: Husband - Chester H. Jones


He completed his formal education in the grade and high schools of Endeavor, Pennsylvania, and supplemented this with courses in a business college. He had not started in an important way on his business career, when the United States entered the First World War, and in 1917 was drafted into the country's military forces. A member of Company D, 10th Corps of Engineers, he served overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces for the unusually long time of eighteen months. One of the incidents of this period was the fact that he was aboard the steamship "Tuscania" at the time it was torpedoed by a German submarine, landing at Londonderry, Ireland. This did not, however, prevent his ultimate arrival in the France war zone and active participation in the conflict.
Upon his return to the United States and civilian life, he became a salesman for the Smith & Horton Company, of Warren, Pennsylvania. From 1922 to 1932, however, he operated a general store at West Hickory. After that time he was engaged in the retail hardware business in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. Fraternally he was a thirty-second degree Mason, exceptionally popular in Masonic circles. In politics a Republican, his chief public office was that of a school director. He was of the Presbyterian faith.

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Sources


1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 415.


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