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December 14, 1872 ~ November 20, 1953 Robert Jones was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he had been a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. Moving to Oklahoma in the 1890's He taught school in Pawnee, Oklahoma. Eventually he met and married Juliet Gracen Arthur, they had four children. Mary Ophelia, Courtney Gayle, Robert Clark and Doretta Jane. Robert eventually tried his hand in the cotton gin business before becoming an "Oil Man" and banker. Jones had "struck it rich" in the oil boom. It was said the first well that came in soaked his new straw hat. Robert Jones, along with Thomas Nelson Berry, Erd C. Mullendore & Edward J. Blank purchased the Blackwell Oil & Gas Company merging it into the Mul-berry Oil Company. Mul-Berry Oil eventually bought G&S Inc's Refinery in Cushing Now calling Mul-Berry Oil the Cushing Refining & Gas Company which eventually sold to Hudson Oil Company. Robert eventually being Co-founder of New State Refining Company he then sold in 1916 To the Illinois Oil Company owned by the Welsh Brothers. Robert then founded R.C. Jones & Company to manage his oil & real estate holdings, he then started investing in Banks first buying into Farmers National Bank, now called Bank of Cushing. |
Cushing, Oklahoma May 1949 April 29, 1881 ~ May 19, 1949 John William Jones, son of David Jones and Mary Lamira Gorman, b. April 29, 1881 at Potter County, PA. He d. May 19, 1949 at Cushing, OK. The first evidence of him is at age 19 in the June 1900 census of Sylvania Twp, Potter County, PA residing in the household of his paternal aunt Flora [Mrs. Ellsworth J.] Moore and his grandmother, the widow Fannie [Keeler] Moore. Where his parents, or at least his father David, were at the time is unknown. In 1907 John W. Jones accompanied his widowed father to Seward County, Kansas where he and father David are enumerated in April 1910 as sequential but separate single person households. David Jones died at Seward County, KS in August 1910 and is interred with the partial remnants of a gravestone in that county's extinct Springfield Cemetery, the last person to be interred at that cemetery. In the same 1910 census of Seward County, Allen M. and Susan Frances [Jones] Barker were residing at Liberal Twp, the maternal grandparents of the future wife of John William Jones - Lena Mae McKnight. In the March 1915 Kansas State enumeration of Seward County, John W. Jones, a single man, age 33, owned a mortgaged farm. He registered in September 1918 for the W.W.I draft at Seward County, age 37, then unmarried and a farmer, naming his nearest relative as Clara A. [Mrs. Patrick M.] Garrin, his only known sibling. At the time and in the subsequent January 1920 census Clara was residing at the City of Bradford, McKean County, PA. In the March 1925 Kansas State enumeration of Seward County are enumerated John W. Jones, a renter, age 43, born at Pennsylvania, and his wife Lena, age 28, born at Kansas, together with infant sons Jonny, born at Kansas, and Francis A., born at Missouri. By 1927-1930 the family is shown in city directories residing at various addresses at Arkansas City, KS. Then in the April 1930 federal census the family is enumerated at Clayton Twp. in Payne County, OK. According to a living child of the John and Lena [McKnight] Jones family, the widow Lena Jones subsequently married a Rich McGarrah and was living at Springdale, AR where she died January 4, 1972. However, she is interred at the Riverview Cemetery at Arkansas City, AR near the burial location of the family of her eldest sister, Irma Leona [McKnight] King. |
Cushing, Oklahoma June 1956 November 29, 1886 ~ June 25, 1956 Juliet Gracen Arthur Jones, Wife of Oil Baron & Banker Robert Courtney R.C. Jones. Member of the Hypatia Club. Her Cousin was James E. Berry Lt. Gov. Of Oklahoma. She entertained frequently, having teas and receptions for political figures. One of the most pleasurable forms of family entertainment was the tradition of dressing in swimsuits for a snowball fight in winter’s first snow. Juliet’s granddaughter, also named Mary Ophelia, as was the tradition of the first born daughter in the Jones family, said it was times like those that taught her the invaluable lesson of enjoying life and having fun. |
© Stillwater News Press Stillwater, Oklahoma September 1, 1988 November 16, 1902 ~ August 30, 1988 The funeral for Grace P. Jones, 87, of Cushing will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Linwood Chapel of the Hackler Funeral Home. Dr. James Reynolds, minister of the Cushing First Baptist Church of which she was a member, will officiate. Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery. She died in Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma City, on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1988. The daughter of John and Ettie [Burks] Phillips, she was born November 16, 1900, at Huntsville, Ark. When she was six the family moved to Stilwell, where she was raised and educated. Later she lived in Tahlequah. She moved to Cushing in 1935 and lived there until 1954, when she moved to California. Mrs. Jones was employed with McDonnell-Douglas until she retired in 1975, and then moved back to Cushing. She had a residence at 1221 E. Fifth. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Two sisters and three brothers have predeceased her. Surviving are a son, Bert Jones of Fairland, Texas; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her brother, Frank Phillips of Cushing, and two sisters, Mae White of Cushing and Maude Hilbert of Yale. |
© Davis Funeral Home Cushing, Oklahoma Printed With Permission March 2001 March 30, 1924 ~ March 31, 2001 Robert Clark Jones was the son of Robert Courtney Jones and Juliet Arthur. On March 1, 1947, in Bryan County, Oklahoma, Robert married Dorothy Mason. Robert Clark Jones of Cushing, OK, born March 30, 1924, passed away on March 31, 2011. He was the son of Robert Courtney Jones and Juliet Arthur Jones. Bob grew up in Cushing, OK where he was active in scouting achieving the level of Eagle Scout. He graduated from Cushing High School in 1941 and attended the University of Oklahoma where he studied geology and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He entered the Army Air Corps in July 1943 where he was trained as a pilot and served for 3 years. After his service ended, he returned to the University of Oklahoma where he met and married his college sweetheart Dorothy "Dodie" Mason Jones. They moved to Cushing where they raised a family and Bob worked in the oil and gas business. He also owned and operated the Pier 51 Marina on Lake Keystone. Bob was active in the community and was a 32nd Degree Mason as well as a member of the Rotary Club. He was a member of the Bank of Cushing Board of Directors for over 50 years, served on the board of the Cushing Country Club and also a member of the Cushing Chamber of Commerce. Bob was active in the Cushing Alumni Association and a member of the Gold Circle Group. He also never missed Friday nights at the Cushing Country Club with the Rowdy Bunch. Bob also served as a junior and senior warden at St. Alban's Episcopal Church where he attended church faithfully. He is preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Ann Mason Jones, and daughter, Ann Mason Jones. The service will be held at the First United Methodist Church in Cushing, OK at 11:00am Saturday April 2, 2011. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers donations be made to: St. Alban's Episcopal Church, PO Box 1248 Cushing, OK 74023 or Judith Karman Hospice, 915 South Main Stillwater, OK 74074. Services are under direction of the Davis Funeral Home. |
Cushing, Oklahoma November 2006 September 8, 1925 ~ November 11, 2006 Dorothy Ann Mason Jones of Cushing, OK, born September 8, 1925 in Denison, TX, passed away on November 11, 2006. She was the daughter of Albert W. and Helen Mason and grew up in Durant, OK. Dodie, as her friends called her, attended Monticello College in Alton, Illinois and went on to the University of Oklahoma where she was an honor student and a member of Mortar Board and Delta Delta Delta sorority. She was active in the community, having served as the president and treasurer of Hypatia Club, held many offices in PEO and was a member of DAR. Through the Hypatia Club, she was instrumental in the planning of Cushing’s Festival in the Park. From 1989 to 1993, she also served as president and board member for the House Corporation for the Theta Gamma chapter of Delta Delta Delta where she was instrumental in the remodeling of the chapter house. Dodie served as a lay reader at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church where she was also treasurer and bookkeeper. She was also a member of the board of directors at the First National Bank in Durant, OK. Dodie is survived by her husband of 59 years, Robert C. Jones, a daughter Juliet Jones-Moss and her husband Robert Moss, and sons Robert C. Jones Jr., his wife Jana and their children Josh and Jessica and William C. Jones, his wife Renee and their children Shawn and Nathan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter Ann Mason Jones. Memorial services will be held Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 1:00 P.M. in the First Presbyterian Church with Father Paul Ostrander conducting services. |
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