The News-Sentinel 1937 - Fulton County Public Library

Despondency caused by poor health was blamed for the suicide at 5:50 o’clock Thursday evening of
Charles Monroe JONES, 58 years old, at his farm home three and a half miles southeast of Chili.
Jones took his .12 gauge shotgun to a woodshed at the rear of his home and propping the gun on a
work bench, stood in front of the weapon and pulled the trigger, the charge passing through his heart.
Coroner A. S. NEWELL of Peru was told by the widow, Mrs. Nellie May JONES, that her husband
had never threatened suicide and his actions had given no hint that he contemplated ending his life.
Louis WEST, 17-year-old Chili high school student and hired hand on the Jones farm, was the first to
reach the body after hearing the shotgun blast, followed a few seconds later by Mrs. Jones.
The suicide occurred while Mrs. Jones was preparing the evening meal. Jones walked from the rear of
the house to the wood shed, but he was not seen carrying the gun and it is believed he had taken it there
earlier in the day. He and Mrs. Jones had planned to attend church last night.
Mr. Jones ended his life on the farm where he was born May 22, 1879, a son of the late Alonzo and
Mary (MOSS) JONES. He had always resided in that community and was a member of the Center Chapel
church. Mr. Jones was united in marriage with Nellie May HATTERY at Roann in 1901.
Surviving besides the widow are three sons, Harry JONES, of Richland township; Kenneth JONES, of
near Peru; and Russell JONES, of near Wabash; two brothers, Frank JONES, Peru R.R. 2, and Hubert
JONES, of Granger, Ind.; two sisters, Miss Minnie JONES and Mrs. Alma KARNEHM, both of Peru, and
four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A brother and a sister preceded Mr. Jones in death.
The body was returned this afternoon from the Grandstaff funeral home at Roann to the late residence,
where friends may call.
Funeral services will be conducted in the Center Chapel church, eight miles northeast of Peru, Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. W. F. JOHNSON, of Berne, Ind., officiating. Interment will be in the
Chili cemetery.
Henry Raymond CROCO, aged 56, Argos, Nickel Plate railroad employee died at the Kelly Hospital,
Argos at 9 o’clock Saturday morning. Death was due to heart trouble and followed an illness of a few days
duration.
The deceased was a life long resident of the Argos community and was born on a farm east of Argos
on May 13, 1881 and was the son of Henry and Mary E. CROCO. He had never married and lived on a
farm half mile east of Argos.
Mr. Croco was employed by the Nickel Plate railroad as section foreman at Argos for the past thirtysix
years. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at Argos.
Surviving are the father, two brothers, Andrew [CROCO] and Earl [CROCO] who live on farms near
Argos and two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd LOWERY, Battle Creek, Mich. and Mrs. L. W. WISE, Birmingham,
Ala. His mother died in 1934.
The body has been moved to the Grossman Funeral Home in Argos where funeral services will be held
at 2 p.m. Monday with Rev. R. H. CROWDER, pastor of the Argos Methodist Church in charge. Burial
will be made in the Maple Grove cemetery at Argos.