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William Henry Jones (c. 1875 – 4 July 1939), commonly referred to as Rev. W. H. Jones, was a Methodist minister in country New South Wales and church executive in Sydney, Australia.

History

Jones was born in Tamworth,[a] the only son of William Jones, later of Leura.[3]

He entered Newington College as a candidate for the ministry, having been nominated by Rev. Richard Sellors DD (1835–1916),[4] general secretary of the Wesleyan Church Sustentation Society, graduating in 1899.[5] and began as a home missionary in the Riverina district, under the direction of Rev. James Woolnough (1847–1915), general secretary of the Home Mission and Extension Society.

His ministry began in 1901 in the Muswellbrook circuit, followed by Glebe, Bellinger River, Young, where he was credited with building the Young church,[6] and Temora.[4]

In 1916, after four years at Temora,[7] he was appointed Home Mission Secretary, based in Sydney, and became increasingly involved in the Home Mission Department of the Church, serving as General Secretary of the Home Mission and Church Sustentation Society, Custodian of Deeds, Conference Property Secretary, and agent for the Church with the Government.[4]

In 1925 he was appointed Home Mission secretary of the NSW Methodist Conference[8] and president of the Conference on 26 February 1930.[4]

At the triennial conference in Adelaide in 1938 he was elected secretary of the General Methodist Conference, succeeding Rev A. E. Albiston (1866–1961).[9] He was credited, along with Percy N. Slade (1872–1944) and George W. Cocks (died 1952) for upgrading and modernizing Methodist policies and organisation in the state.

He died at Kempsey after a long illness and following a service at the Lindfield Methodist Church, his remains were cremated at the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.[10]

Recognition

A stained-glass window to his memory was dedicated by A. E. Albiston at the Lindfield church on 4 February 1940.[11] Another, memorializing his wife, was unveiled on 27 May 1934.[12]

Family

Jones married Mary Wallace (died 12 February 1934) of Newcastle on 22 March 1905. They had at least four sons and one daughter:[b]

  • (William) Wallace Jones married Elwyn Doreen Hawkins, daughter of the Hon H. M. Hawkins, on 27 December 1932.
  • Bobby
  • Kenneth was engaged to Edith Miller in 1934
  • Harry
  • Erica Jones (6 August 1918 – )

Jones married again, to Edith Winnifred Wells Holmes,[13] who was with him at Crescent Head, when he died.[14] She was the widow of Rev. Thomas Barker Holmes of Lindfield, who died in 1928.[15] Edith Winnifred Wells Jones was a co-executor of Jones's will.[16] Co-executor Harry Wallace Jones was a clerk and mining investor but the family link is yet to be found.

Sarah Ann Rixon (died November 1928) was someone's sister

perhaps NSW Marriage 3545/1900 JONES WILLIAM H - BENSLEY MIRIAM - CAMDEN No. 28 Wesleyan Marriage June 27, 1900 William Henry Jones Miriam Bensley NSW.

who was Ethel Hampson Jones (died 14 February 1953), spinster

Notes

  1. ^ Possibly born 20 April 1874 at Kingston Cottage, Tamworth,[1] to William and Letitia Jones, née Peirce, who married at the Methodist Church, Tamworth, on 4 March 1871.[2] They also had a daughter in 1872.
  2. ^ One son was born at Bellingen on 11 January 1906 and two at Young, on 15 May 1908 and 12 May 1910, none identified. Little has been found on the later lives of their children, apart from a hint that Wallace was active in the church.

References

  1. ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXIX, no. 11, 219. New South Wales, Australia. 2 May 1874. p. 1. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXIII, no. 10, 269. New South Wales, Australia. 19 April 1871. p. 1. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Family Notices". The Daily Telegraph. No. 8070. New South Wales, Australia. 15 April 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 19 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ a b c d "Rev. W. H. Jones". The Scone Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 28 February 1930. p. 2. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "Rev. W. H. Jones". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 672. New South Wales, Australia. 5 July 1939. p. 16. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.includes portrait of Jones.
  6. ^ "Obituary". The Young Chronicle. Vol. 60, no. 17. New South Wales, Australia. 16 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Rev. W. H. Jones". The Methodist. Vol. XXV, no. 18. New South Wales, Australia. 29 April 1916. p. 9. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Methodist Church". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 27, 192. New South Wales, Australia. 28 February 1925. p. 18. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "Methodist Conference". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 333. New South Wales, Australia. 4 June 1938. p. 5. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "Rev. W. H. Jones". The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales. Vol. 71, no. 8851. New South Wales, Australia. 8 July 1939. p. 10. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "In Memory of Rev. W. H. Jones". The Young Chronicle. Vol. 66, no. 10. New South Wales, Australia. 6 February 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Late Mrs W. H. Jones". The Methodist. Vol. 43, no. 22. New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1934. p. 5. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 673. New South Wales, Australia. 6 July 1939. p. 8. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "Late Rev. W. H. Jones". The Methodist. Vol. 48, no. 27. New South Wales, Australia. 8 July 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 28, 289. New South Wales, Australia. 4 September 1928. p. 2. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ^ "Probate Jurisdiction". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales. No. 132. New South Wales, Australia. 1 September 1939. p. 4454. Retrieved 18 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.

Category:1939 deaths Category:20th-century Australian Methodist ministers

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