Transcribed by Rita O'Brien Charleston Daily Mail Charleston, West Virginia September 11, 1936 ILLNESS TAKES QUINCE JONES High Lawn Lumberman, Citizen Dies at Home; Was Former Banker Quince Jones, 55 years old, prominent citizen and widely known lumberman of the state, and former president of the First National Bank at South Charleston, died Thursday night at his home at High Lawn. He had been in ill health for about three years and seriously ill since Friday. The body has been taken to the Bartlett mortuary at St. Albans, where funeral services will be conducted at 9:45 o'clock Sunday morning. Rev G.W. Shipley, pastor of the Bream Memorial Presbyterian church, Charleston, will officiate. Following the services, the body will be taken to his old home near Dameron, in Raleigh County, for additional services and burial in the family cemetery. Mr. Jones was born June 21, 1881, at Marshes, in Raleigh County, the son of the late Dan and Fannie Mankin Jones. He became connected with the lumber business in 1901 with the Mankin Lumber company at Oak Hill. In 1907, Mr. Jones went into the merchandising business in Raleigh County, and in 1915 moved to South Charleston where he continued as a merchant until 1919. In 1919, Mr. Jones became associated with the Bowman Lumber company at St. Albans and also handling extensive lumber operations in Raleigh county, remained with that company until 1926. He also operated lumber and coal businesses on Davis Creek. The lumberman organized in 1929, the Clear Fork Lumber company in Raleigh county and owned and operated the business until his death. Mr. Jones helped to organize and was the first president of the First National bank of South Charleston in 1916. He resigned in 1928. He was a member of the Beni Kedem temple of the Shrine and Beckley lodge No 95, A. F. & A. M. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Ella Jones; two sons, Daryl and Quince Jones, of Surveyor, in Raleigh county, and Luther Jones, of Dameron, and one sister, Mrs. Zodie Barrett, of Dry Creek, Raleigh county. Son Died Recently Mr. Jones was the father of Basil Jones, of Charleston, lumber operator, who died about six weeks ago. Active pallbearers at the funeral services will be R. C. Jarrell, H. W. Bowers, A. V. Fitzwater, H. B. Clay, G. J. Finney, V. H. Lloyd, Ned Colcord and Guy Massey. Honorary pallbearers are: Hub Manning, Willie Daniels, John L. Clay, G. C. Hedrick, Boyd E. Carter, E. H. Crouch, Dr. G. P. Daniels, W. H. Rairden, John F. Bolen, C. A. McClung, E. C. Colcord, William Pence, L. H. Oakes, Dr. A. V. Johnson, Dr. R. O. O'Dell, John A. Field, W. P. Gore, H. C. Zogg, W. P. Edwards, Z. H. Trowbridge, Hod Rogers, Ed Jarrell, Charles Tabor, French Lucas, S. D. Bird, A. A. Lilly, M. F. Mathney, John Copenhaven, Orville Hackney, D. L. Salisbury, Samuel Campbell, W. N. Morgan, Henry L. Terrie, Mayor Dawson, R. E. Eskins, John F. Crouse and E. K. Lusk.