JONES, Raymond W. ¹

  General Notes:

Raymond W. Jones was recorded by the 1900 US Census living at Clatskanie Precinct in Columbia County, Oregon, with his family. He was born in Oregon and his parents were born in Iowa and Oregon. He was born in June 1894 and was 6 years of age. He was at school. He had received two months of education.


Grant Jones was the head of a household of five living in Clatskanie, Columbia County, Oregon, as recorded by the 1910 US Federal census. His wife Nellie, their son, Raymond, and their two daughters, Mabel and Gladys, lived there too. Raymond W. Jones, the middle child, was recorded as 16 years old and born in Oregon.


Name: Raymond W Jones Service Info.: MUS1 US ARMY WORLD WAR I
Birth Date: 21 Jan 1894
Death Date: 5 Jun 1966
Service Start Date: 25 Mar 1917
Interment Date: 9 Jun 1966
Cemetery: Willamette National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 11800 SE MT. Scott Boulevard Portland, OR 97266
Buried At: Section K Site 5750


In 1920 the US Federal Census for Vancouver City, Clark county in the state of Washington, recorded Raymond Jones living as one of the lodgers in the household of 56 year old widow Minnie Eddings situated in Washington Street, near Ninth and Main. He was 25 years of age and had been born in Oregon. His mother had been born there too and his father in Iowa. Raymond worked as a watchmaker in the jewellery business.


The 1930 US Federal census for Clatskanie in Columbia County, Oregon, recorded Raymond Jones and his wife Hazel living with their two sons in a rented home for which they paid $25 a month. Raymond was recorded as 36 years of age and had been born in Oregon, like his mother. His father's birthplace was noted only as 'United States'. He had married six years earlier. Raymond was self employed as a jeweller in the watch repair business. He was a US War Veteran. ^{1 2 3 4}

Raymond married Hazel M. JONES MS UNKNOWN. (Hazel M. JONES MS UNKNOWN was born about 1899 in Michigan, USA ⁴.)