Birth: March 3, 1842
Death: April 18, 1913
Location: Lot 137, Section 1, Row 11, Old Cemetery – SE
Grand Island (Nebraska) Daily Independent
Monday, 21 April 1913, page 2
The remains of Stephen Jones arrived in the city this morning from Houston, Tex., and were taken to Wood River where the funeral took place this afternoon. Mr. Jones was one of the old time residents of the west end and left this county twenty years ago to locate in the south with his family. He formerly owned a fine farm east of Wood River and did carpenter work when the town of Cairo was first located.
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He enlisted in the Federal army, in Schooly’s independent battery, but it was subsequently transferred to the Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery, Company M, Second Regiment, and was on duty at Fort Delaware and Washington, DC, until May, 1864, when his regiment joined Grant at Cold Harbor, and was with him until the fall of Petersburg. Following the last battle in which he participated he was appointed division mail agent in Gen. Hartsuff’s headquarters. He received his discharge June 21, 1865, was mustered out at Petersburg