AMELIA PAMLEY JONES

AMELIA PAMELY WAS BORN IN LONDON, ENGLAND, DECEMEBER 15, 1836, AND DIED AT EAGLEVILLE, MO., FEBRUARY 5, 1901.  SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO THE REV. T. H. JONES AUGUST 5, 1862.  TO THIS MARRIAGE WERE BORN ELVEN CHILDREN, FOUR OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY AND TWO AFTER REACHING YEARS OF MANHOOD. FIVE CHILDREN AND THE FATHER SURVIVE TO MOURN THE LOSS OF A DEVOTED, THOUGHTFUL, UNSELFISH AND AFFECTIONATE WIFE AND MOTHER.  SHE UNITED WITH THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN CHEPSTON, ENGLAND, IN  1860 AND CONTINUED IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THAT CHURCH UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH, BUT SHE LOVED TO MEET WITH THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST OF EVERY NAME.  HER LAST SICKNESS WAS OF SHORT DURATION.  UP TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, SHE APPEARED TO BE IN USUAL HEALTH.  THAT MORNING SHE WAS TAKEN WITH CHILLS, FOLLOWED BY GRIPPE AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS SET IN, BUT THERE WERE NO SERIOUS APPREHENSIONS TILL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, WHEN THERE WAS EVIDENT SYMPTOMS OF HEART FAILURE OF WHICH SHE DIED AT 10:30 A.M.  HER DEATH WAS A QUIET, PEACEFUL FALLING ASLEEP IN THE ARMS OF THE SAVIOR WHOM SHE LONG TRUSTED.