--The Rev. Geo. M. Clampitt sends the following sad announcement: "The Rev. Joslin Jones, a member of the Louisiana Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, died at the residence of his daughter in Natchitoches parish, Louisiana, on the 28th day of August, 1889. I hope some more suitable and definite notice of his life will soon be produced.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, September 26, 1889, page 5]

Jones.--The Rev. Joslin Jones, a member of the Louisiana Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Hameth, in Natchitoches parish, on August 27, 1889. The Rev. J. Jones was born in North Carolina, May 12, 1812; was married to Miss Sarah Southerland December 28, 1832. They moved to Mississippi, and there he was received into the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and being soon impressed with a sense of duty, he asked for and obtained license to preach the gospel. They moved to Louisiana where he labored for thirty-eight or thirty-nine years. He was ordained and set apart to the whole work of the ministry by the Ouachita Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. In 1851 or 1852 he aided in the organization of the Old Ouachita Synod; he also aided G. N. Clampitt and S. S. Smartt in the organization of the present Louisiana Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Brother Jones was an earnest, quiet, faithful minister, a good citizen, a safe presbyter, good and kind husband, and an affectionate father. He was caused to suffer long, and often expressed himself ready and waiting with even an anxious desire to depart and be with Jesus, whom he so earnestly labored for, and be at rest. He leaves a large number of sorrowing friends and four devoted daughters to mourn over his departure. But his children and friends are much consoled when we all think that we sorrow, but not as those who have no hope. The home of Brother and Sister Jones is left without its former inmates. The place where once the weary minister was so kindly greeted is left for us to look at with sad recollections of the past. But they are gone to inherit a better and a more durable and everlasting home.
Geo. N. Clampitt,
W. D. Owens,
F. S. Bridges,
Presbyterial Committee.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, November 28, 1889, page 8]

Name: Joslin Jones
Presbytery: Louisiana
Time of Death: August 29, 1889

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, page 37]