Bob's note:
1) Batthews Augustus Jones was born in St. Francois County, Missouri, not Sims, Illinois as the obituary states.  My g-grandfather A. C. Jones & family moved to Missouri sometime in the 1870s and did not return until after the youngest son, Homer Ezra Jones had been born in 1883 in Springfield, Missouri.

Wayne County Press
July, 1928

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon for  B. A. "Gussie" Jones, of Sims, from the Sims General Baptist church with Rev. Dwight Rogers officiating.  Internment was in Victory cemetery. The Richardson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Jones, a retired Sims postmaster, was found dead in his bed early Sunday morning, having passed away in his sleep. He was 78.

Batthews Augustus Jones was born at Sims November 20th, 1880, the son of Augustus C. and Nancy King Jones.

On September 27, 1903, he was married to Stella Augusta Smith, with four children born to this union. One daughter, Maxine, died at the age of three.

Mr. Jones was a member of the Sims General Baptist church for 51 years.

Surviving are his wife; a son, Fred, of Sims; two daughters, Mrs. Otis Allen, of Wayne City; and Miss Lucille Jones, of Detroit, Mich.; one sister, Mrs. Cora Baker, of Flora; and two grandchildren.