Sierra County Obituaries

William Jones

Submitted by Brad Sharpe

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Daily Appeal � February 12, 1898, Pg. 3

SIERRA COUNTY � ( excerpt ) � The following items were taken from the 
Sierra County Enterprise of current issue. - - - - - Wm. Jones , an old-timer 
of Poker Flat, died at that place on the 3d instant and was buried on the 4th. 
He was a native of Wales and 75 years of age. He was naturalized in Nevada 
county in 1857. At one time �Bill� Jones as he was familiarly called, was a 
sailor on board a slave vessel which was being hotly pursued by a Government 
revenue cutter, witnessed the brutal and inhuman murder of nine hundred 
slaves in a few hours to destroy the evidence of the nefarious business in which 
it was engaged. The slaves were taken out of the hold, weighted and sunk in the 
ocean off the Florida coast. No pleadings for mercy touched the hearts of these 
slaves pirates--- men, women and children to the last one met their untimely death.