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- Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, March 15, 1860 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Deaths - In this town, on Thursday, March 8th, Pliny Jones, in the 83d year of his age.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, March 15, 1860 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - An Old Land Mark Gone - Under the appropriate head will be found a notice of the death of Pliny Jones, one of the oldest and most respected citizens. He was born in Bark-Hempstead, Litchfield County, Connecticut August 21, 1777, at which time the country was thrilling with the startling intelligence of the ingress of Gen. Burgoyne, with the flower of the British army, and every man and boy, capable of bearing arms had gone forth at the call to aid his country in this her darkest hour, and none but women and children were left in the town at the time. Mr. Jones received a good common English education, and in his youthful days, filled the important post of "_ master." In 1802, at the age of 25, he was married to Olive Goff, of Greenville, Massachusetts, and in 1805, removed to this town, then a howling wilderness, and located one mile south of this village. Here commenced, under his hand, the first actual settlement of the Town of Richland; and, without priest, doctor or lawyer, and but _le except his own sturdy hands and determined will to assist, the wilderness disappeared, a home was reared, a family raised and the result has been a long life of industry and prudence crowned with a comp_ in declining years. There has not, perhaps, one passed from among us whose life is more linked to our early history, an_ for the information of those who desire to know, we will state a few facts which will be well worthy of note by those who remember "our forefathers." In 1807, the Town of Richland was set off from Williamstown, and included what is now the town of Sandy Creek, Orwell, Albion, and part of Mexico, of which, during the next fourteen years, Pliny Jones was constable and collector. His lonely rides through thetrackless wilderness to "serve a summons" may well be imagines, but no_ our limited space, described. All his official acts bore the stamp of honesty and faithfulness. In 1816, the County of Oswego was set off from Oneida, and John S. Davis was appointed Sheriff and by his appointment, Pliny Jones was the first Under Sheriff of Oswego County. It might seem hard to some of our present officials to tramp through Scriba's hills and Volney's swamps, where roads were talked of but not to be found, to swim Oswego river, or cross on the ice to serve [line unreadable], but so it was then and it was done. Another fact maybe of interest, that in April 1806, a sister of Pliny Jones was married to Joseph Spades, which was the first marriage celebrated in Richland: and the first birth was that of the first infant child of this union. Mrs. Olive Jones, wife of the deceased,
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1777 - 1860 (82 years)
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