This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dolbeare-Jones Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kg.2ADI/1549 Message Board Post: Rachel Elizabeth (Dolbeare) Jones Feb. 28, 1906 Rachel E. Dolbeare was born in Derry township, Pike Co. Il. November 25, 1847. She was married to Thomas J. Jones March 5, 1868. She and her husband united with the Christian church at El Dara June 1, 1873, during the ministrations of Elder W.H. Crow, and she has ever since been a faithful and zealous member, and her kind and gentle influence and example all through life has led her children to become useful members of the church of their mother's choice. She passed away peacefully at the family home on Wednesday morning, Feb. 28, 1906, loved and revered by her family, friends, and neighbors, and by all of these she will be sadly missed. The husband, two sons, four daughters, seven grand-children, six brothers, three sisters and her aged mother, now 86 years old, are surviving relatives. Her six surviving children are all grown up. The eldest, Azalia is the wife of M.L. Moyer, of Martinsburg, Iowa; of her twin daughters Rosa is the wife of F.E. Shelley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lilly is the wife of S.D. Royalty of Hannibal, Mo.; Ida is the wife of Otis Royalty of El Dara; J. Henry is married and a tenet on the farm; George is a pupil in the University of Illinois at Champaign. A funeral sermon was preached by Elder Calvin Dabney on March 1, 1906, and the remains were laid to rest in the family lot in the Taylor buring grounds. Barry Adage