PRIVATE CLEM HAYES JONES


Died of Pneumonia at Camp Sherman, Ohio, October 6, 1918

Presented by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.



Clem Hayes Jones
[Used with permission of owner.]


Buried at Jones Cemetery, Marion County, West Virginia
[Grave Photo from ancestry.com]

Born in Wheeling on May 28, 1896, Clem was the son of James Seward Jones and Betty Hayes, originally from Marion County, West Virginia, and married there in 1890. They moved to Benwood, date unknown.

At the time of the 1900 Federal Census of Benwood, Marshall County, the family resided at 10th Street, Benwood. The father, James S., 34, was a "metal braker". The mother, Betty, was 26, and their children were Willie, 9; Carl L., 7; Clyd P., 6, and Clemma, 4. Betty died in 1901, per gravestone, and she is buried at Jones Cemetery in Marion County.

By 1910, James S. Jones, still in Benwood, and still a metal breaker at the steel mill, had been married to his second wife, Lucy, for 7 years and they had 3 young children: Gladys M., 6; Edrie, 3, and Roy E., 1 month. She was Lucy May Dixon, and they were married in Wheeling in 1903. Clem ("Clemmie") and brother, Carl, were residing with their maternal grandmother in Mannington, Marion County.

When Clem registered for the WWI Draft, he was living in Akron, Ohio and was employed at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He named his father, still a resident of Benwood, as his nearest relative.

According to the West Virginia Memory Project, Clem was from Marion County, and was born in Benwood. He was serving in the 27 Company 7th. Tng. Btln. 158th Dep. Brigade at the time of his death from pneumonia at Camp Sherman, Ohio.

The father, James Seward Jones, died of toxemia at Glendale Hospital, Marshall County, in 1931. He is buried by his first wife at the Jones Cemetery in Marion County. At the time of his death, he was a resident of 2106 Marshall Street, Benwood, and second wife, Lucy, survived him.


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