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Show DEATH CALLS PROVO WOMAN After a long and lingering illness, Mrs. Julia Ipsou Jones, widow of Hie late S. S. Jones, died at her home, 2S5 East Third South street, Thursday Thurs-day morning at 1 o'clock. , During the. past year she had been bedfast and for several years previously she had been ailing in health. Mrs. Jones was born on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, January H, 1847. As a girl she came to Utah with her mother in 185a, crossing the plains with ox-teams. After living in Salt Lake City for three years she moved to Provo where she had made her home continuously contin-uously since that time. A typical pioneer woman of the type that assisted so greatly in con- quering the wilderness, Mrs. Jones went through all of the hardships and toils of the early pioneer days. She saw Provo grow from a mere hamlet into an up-to-date city and did her share with her husband in the developing of the intermountain region, especially of Provo and Utah county. A faithful and sincere Latter-day Saint, Mrs. Jones had always taken a leading part in church affairs of Provo. In the early days she was president of the Y. L. M. I. A. for several years in the Provo First ward and had also taken an active interest in the Belief society not only of the ward but of the stake. Surviving her are two sons, Albert Al-bert S. Jones and R. Eugene Jones nnd one daughter, Mrs, Teenie Thomas, all ot Provo. |