JONES, Mattie Denton, Beeville Picayune, Friday, 12 Dec 1912:

Mrs. Asa A. Jones died in San Antonio, Texas December 12, 1912 at 4:15. Mrs. Mattie 
Denton Jones, wife of Asa A. Jones, aged thirty years, nine months, and twenty five 
days. The end came a week after she had been taken to Baylor Hospital in San Antonio 
after an illness extending over a period of two months, here at the home of her parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Atkins.

The remains were brought to this city today at noon and laid to rest this afternoon in the
old cemetery beside those of her babe which lie in a new made grave. The funeral occurred 
at 3 o'clock from the home of R. W. Barron, on Corpus Christi Street, the service being 
conducted by Rev. A. W. Wilson, of the Methodist Church.

Deceased was born in the eastern portion of Live Oak County in a settlement then known 
as Pleasant Hill, February 19, 1882, being the 7th child and 5th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. 
R. Atkins. With her parents she lived for brief periods at Floresville, Oakland, and Skidmore, 
but much of her girlhood was spent in Beeville where she attended the public school and 
was a member of the 1900 graduation class of Beeville High School. 

She was united in marriage to Asa A. Jones in this city on November 1, 1903, soon after moving 
with him to San Antonio where they remained until three years ago, then moving to a ranch in 
Brooks County, which was her home when death entered and took away the babe and later the 
wife and mother. Left heart broken, the husband and father, aged parents and brothers and 
sisters. The latter are: J. F. Atkins, San Antonio; George H. Atkins, Beeville; Mesdames, H. F. 
Marrs, Corsicana; A. P. Irwin, Clinton, Louisiana; E. C. Bowen, Corpus Christi; W. C. Jack, 
Douglas, Arizona and R. W. Barron, of this city. All were present at the funeral except Mesdames 
Irwin and Jack.

Mrs. Jones was converted when a young girl, joining the Methodist Church and at her death 
held her membership in the Prospect Hill Church in San Antonio. Friendships formed with girl 
school mates and continued throughout her life and grew as the years passed, ripening into 
deep love and hearts not bound to her by blood are in deep sorrow today. She had gone to join 
her babe where sorrow and suffering are unknown.