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Gardiner Jones Sr (b. 08 Jul 1889, d. 20 Aug 1965)
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BIOGRAPHY: Starting on page 8 of "The 1367 Direct Ancestors of the JonesBoys" by Wesley Gale Jones, he writes of his father, Colonel Gardiner B. Jones, Sr:
Gardiner Bouton Jones, Sr. was not a handsome man, as he says his father was, yet his face was full of character. He was interesting, very humerous in a dry manner, well-liked by all who knew him well. His head was a storehouse of long-remembered incidents and poetry, and he was extremely fair and honest. From his experiences as a cowboy, he became an excellent horseman, playingin military polo matches and winning numerous awards for riding and jumping in horse shows. His honesty and integrity would be hard to match. Like his grandfather he was an excellent woodworker, and his primary recreational activities were horseback riding and woodworking. Gardiner was one of the earliest global travellers, due to his career of over thirty years in the U.S. Army's Veterinary Corps when he finally retired with the rank of colonel. His life was a series of colorful experiences, as the following examples taken from the referenced recording attest:
I probably was the worst little stinker that ever lived. I don't think I ever did anything criminal but I was always in some kind of mess. I can't remember the first time I was ever on a horse. I can hardly remember the first horse I owned. From the time I was--I think, I wanted my own horse. I sold tea and coffee and made enough money to buy an old goat for twenty-five dollars. And I finally sold him for fifty, and before I left St. Louis at nineteen I think I had four or five horses and my poor old Dad was buying feed for them at the tune of about twenty dollars a ton. I didn't even know he was doing me a favor then.
I left St. Louis because my folks left. I had a sister that was ill (Note: Clare died at about the age of twenty) and they sent her to Wyoming for her health and my folks sold their place and moved out to Wyoming. That was the first time I was ever on a train, except maybe a trip of about a hundred miles once before. But I never saw a Pullman car or a dining car until we made that trip. We left St. Louis--I think it took us two or two and a half days to get from St. Louis to Clearmont, Wyoming, and we got in there about three or four in the afternoon and had to stay all night at this little Clearmont hotel. And the next morning the stagecoach left for Buffalo. The stage driver was this Frank Chandler that I later ran into down in Arizona. And I rode up on the driver's seat, on the box, with Chandler. I don't think there are many people living today that can say they've ridden on a stagecoach.
More About Gardiner Jones Sr:
Burial: 24 Aug 1965, Golden Gate National Cemetery, Presidio, CA.179, 180
Children of Gardiner Jones Sr and Mae Lucille McFann are:
- Wesley Gale Jones.
- +Cynthia Jones.
- +Gardiner Jones Jr, b. 15 May 1922, Manila, Republic ot the Philippines, d. 22 Jun 1987, Brooklyn, Kings Co., NY181.