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Name: Elva Ray Jones
Residence: Cave City KY
Died: Tuesday, 13 Apr 2004, Williamsburg Health Care Center in
Crawfordsville IN, age 103.
Cave City's oldest resident
Born: Green Co KY
Daughter of the late Matthew Elbert and Beauty Terrell Morris
Bennett
Married 8 July 1918 Ellis Madison Jones in Jeffersonville IN. They were
married 71 years when he died on 28 Nov 1989. They lived all of their
married life and raised their four children in Cave City.
Member Cave City Baptist Church, homemaker, retired clerk at Handy and
Reynolds General Store in cave City. During Cave City's Sesquicentennial
Celebration in 2003, Mrs. Jones was honored as the oldest citizen of
Cave City.
Survivors:
Granddaughter: Donna Barnett of Crawfordsville IN
Nieces: Geraldine Jones of Campbellsville KY and Kay Bennett of
Elizabethtown KY
Nephew: Neal Bennett of Hodgenville KY
Nine grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, 20 great-great
grandchildren.
Preceded in death also by:
Daughter: Edith Bernice Gordon
Sons: Ellis M Jr, Evan B (killed in WW II), and Edmond Ezekiel Jones
Grandson and great-grandson
Services: 2 pm Saturday, 17 Apr 2004, Bob Hunt Funeral Chapel, burial
Cave City Cemetery.
Glasgow (KY) Daily Times, Thursday, 15 Apr 2004, p. 2.
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