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THIRD AVENUE METHODIST CHURCH QUILT

A CANADIAN RED CROSS QUILT

Version 6.01

11 February 2025

David March © 2014

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ERNEST ROBINSON JONES

Ernest Robinson Jones was born on 29 May 1891 in Midland, Tay Township, Simcoe, Ontario to George James Jones (1859-1945) and Ann Jane Robinson (1859-1912. Ernest had seven siblings, Thomas Henry (b 1884), Herbert Stanley Gordon (1886-1956), Letitia Mildred (1889-1967), Franklin Melville (b 1893), Isabella Grace (b 1896), Wilma Ruth (1898-1960) and Ellen Reikes (1903-1903).

Ernest grew up on the family farm in Tay Township before coming west to Saskatchewan. On 5 November 1914, Ernest obtained a homestead grant on SW-14-24-25-W3 in RM Chesterfield near Saskatoon. He enlisted on 17 June 1916. Following his war service he a soldier’s land grant at SE-9-60-19-W3. According to his obituary, Ernest had farmed in rural Saskatchewan since 1917. See Star-Phoenix 1 December 1954.

No wife is mentioned in his obituary. Ernest died on 28 November 1954 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon.

A tree on Ancestry has been created for this family under the title 3rd Ave Jones Tree.

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E R Jones signature on

enlistment papers 1916