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Age 10 months at 1860 Census date.

Find A Grave Memorial# 27917225
Youngest child of John L. Jones and Susanna "Susie" (Brown) Jones; in the 1870 census in Austin, Cass County, Missouri and listed as "Insane" and in the 1880 census in Austin, Cass County, Missouri he is listed as "Idiotic". While traveling on a wagon train, Johny/Johnny died of "Flux" at Dead Man(s) Flat in Idaho per a letter dated 20 Oct 1883 written by Mollie Ray Dickey Jones to her mother in Missouri. He was buried somewhere near there. John/Johnny was Mollie Ray Dickey Jones's brother-in-law.

Excerpt from Mollie Ray Dickey Jones' letter of 20 Oct 1883 to her mother in Missouri:
"well ma i suppose you heard that Johny Jones was dead. he died with the flux at dead mans flat in idaho. the alkali water give it to him. we was over a hunderd miles from any town and they could not get any cofin and they just had to buy lumber and make a box fore him and as it hapened there was twenty wagons of all of us there that night and there was a preacher there and he preached his funerall. he was sick just two weeks and ________ pretty bad off with it to. i thought that ______ would not get well but she is better now than she has been for a long time. none of the rest of us had it but Jack and Abe. they did not have it bad." (Mollie Jones was John Jones' sister-in-law and Jack and Abe were John Jones' brothers)

Birth	Jul 1859	Missouri
Death	Jul 1883	Idaho

Father	John Longden Jones (1820 - 1911)
Mother	Susanna Brown (1828 - 1875)
Sibling	Elizabeth Jones (1846 - 1930)
Sibling	Mary J. Jones (1848 - 1860)
Sibling	Richard Jones (1853 - 1928)
Sibling	William Abraham "Abe" Jones (1854 - 1920)
Sibling	Andrew Jackson "Jack" Jones (1856 - 1932)