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BIRTH: 1920 U.S. Census, School District 36, Garfield Co MT; 1920; ED122, Page
8B; Lines 1-6; Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison WI; NOTE: Walter E.
Jones, age 39, born Illinois; wife, Hazel M., age 25, born Illinois; daughter
May A., age 16, born Illinois; daugter, Edith E., age 6, born Illinois;
daughter, Wanita M., age 4 5/12, born Illinois; and son Waltor, age 2 7/12,
born Montana. Enumeration date 16Apr1920. "Garfield County-The Golden Years,
Vol II.", pg 239-240, by May Haney, 1969.

PARENTS: Obituary of Casey Jones, THE JORDAN TRIBUNE, 30Nov1961; 1961; p1;
Copy in possession of Nancy & Art Hawkinson.

"I, May Jones, Haney, landed in Miles City with my parents, (Casey) Walter E.
Jones and my step-mother, Hazel, on Dec. 4, 1917. We left for Jordan early in
the morning of the 5th with my father and mother's brother, Clarence Hawkins,
in a Model T Ford with side curtains. My two sisters, Edith, age 3 and Wanita
was 17 months old. Everything went fine. Plenty of snow and 32 degrees below
zero. We were from Illinois and dressed accordingly, so by the time we were
almost four miles from Cohagen, Montana, we hit a couple of bumps and broke an
axle. Car loaded! Babies crying! We got out to walk, somewhere, of course
that would be Cohagen. The baby would let anyone carry her, but Edith was
bound I should carry her. We stayed three days there getting repairs and
fixed. I do believe that was the coldest place in the U.S.A. up over the
store.

We reached Jordan the 9th of December and stayed at Conacher's Hotel, that
is now Viola Adams' rooming house. We then went the 20 miles out to the ranch,
where Dad had homesteaded. It was a 12 by 24 frame house, one stove, a cook
stove with oven doors on both sides that burned sage brush and coal.

Dad made a hand sled and we would go to the coal mine we had discovered,
every day and sometimes twice a day and dig coal and pull it down by hand, a
couple sacks at a time. "We made hay while the sun shone" for it was a cold,
long winter, 1917.

Thank God for wonderful neighbors. We bought potatoes from Bill Fisher.
Bill Cope, Erickson, Mr. and Mrs. McCants and Raymond were our closest
neighbors.

I married Alfred Haney in September, 1921. He had come to the country in
1912 with his mother and father, Frank B. and Lillian [Williams] Haney.

While living on Snow Creek we had many wonderful neighbors. They were Mr.
and Mrs. Al Hawkinson, Mrs. Rosa Robuck who would ride a horse to our place to
help out when I had tick fever. Every Sunday she would come to help.

Mr. and Mrs. John Perry, with their large family lived where Sidney Hauso
now lives. An old trapper, Mr. Marvin Harp, used to ride from one place to
another tending his traps. Then there were the Iversons, Jerry with his
freighting and wheat farming and his English born wife, [who] lived on the head
of the Snow Creek Range with their two daughters, Betty and Selma. Our county
commissioner, Andrew Ofstedahl and wife, Ruth, lived near by with many acts of
kindness and good deeds.

Hard times, but happy ones, as we raised our family of seven which have
flown every direction, but here we remain in God's country."

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The Jordan Tribune, 30Nov1961, p1

Services Held For Casey Jones Former Resident [May's father]

Walter E. (Casey) Jones passed away in the Veterans hospital in Spokane,
Washington, November 20, 1961 at the age of 81 years. He was born June 17,
1880, at McCleansboro, Ill. At the age of 18 years he enlisted in the Army,
Company K, 9th Illinois Infantry. In February 1913 he married Hazel Hawkins at
Nashville, Ill. In 1916 he moved his family to Jordan, where he homesteaded on
Hell Creek, now a part of the Lester Engdahl ranch.

Casey, as he was called by all who knew him, did carpenter work in Jordan,
having built the Garfield Hotel, Ewy's Store and many more buildings in Jordan.
He also ranched on Hell Creek. In 1937 the family moved to Oroville,
Washington where he continued as a carpenter and builder until 1952 when he
retired. He with his wife had made several trips and on Saturday, November
19th they went to Spokane on the first part of a trip east. On Saturday he was
rushed to the hospital and passed away early Monday morning.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Opdyke, Ill. and a past commander of
the Spanish American War veterans of Okanogan Co. in Washington. He leaves his
wife, Hazel, five sons, Walter Jones and Robert Jones of Spokane, Edgar Jones
of Comfrey, Minn., William Jones, Santa Ana, California and Donald Jones of
Fairchild Air Force Base, Spikane. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. May
Haney of Jordan; Mrs. Edith Goin and Mrs. Wanieta Rees of Spokane; Mrs. Hazel
Etta Pule of Los Angeles and 37 grand children and 19 great grand children.

Birth	Abt 1903	Illinois, United States
Marriage	12 Sep 1921	Jordan, Garfield, Montana - Alfred Edgar Haney
Death	9 Sep 1996	Jordan, Garfield, Montana, United States

Spouse	Alfred Edgar Haney (1902 - 1985)
Child	Kathryn Haney
Child	Trudy Haney
Child	Alfred Haney
Child	Frank Haney
Child	Richard Haney (1937 - )
Child	Barbara Haney
Child	Patsy M. Haney
Child	Helen Haney

Father	Walter E. "Casey" Jones (1880 - 1961)
Mother	Maude Esmond