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Elijah Jones JR. Elijah Jones JR. was born July 26, 1786. He married Cynthia, daughter of Samuel Tuthill. In A Towner's History of the Valley and County of Chemung, (1892) on pp. 97 we find: Another brother of the Rev. Simeon R. Jones was Elijah. He was a jeweler by trade, but became better known as the landlord of the old Mansion House at the corner of Lake and Market streets, a vocation that fitted in better with his tastes and disposition than any other. He had the Mansion House during all the period of the stage coaching days, and was probably better known throughout all the region around than any other one man. He was fine looking, and his manners were particularly urbane and courteous, not only to the judges and other distinguished men who "put up" at his inn, but to the humblest and most unfortunate. His wife was the daughter of Samuel Tuthill, one of the '93 settlers of the valley in the town of Southport, and she was married when only sixteen years of age. Their children were mostly girls. On of them was the wife of William L. Gibson, Recently deceased, a merchant of Elmira: another became Mrs. W. H. Thorne: another was the second wife of Hiram Crane: and another was the first wife of Grandison A. Gridley. The four sons: Samuel T. named for his paternal grandfather, married the widow of E. R. Brainard, who built what has since became the Rathbun House, and is now in the custom house in New York City: Raymond, following the vocation of his father, was for many years the landlord of the hotel at Southport Corners and marrying into a Quaker family removed to the far West: and Elijah and Cynthia Tuthill Jones are buried in the Second Street Cemetery, Elmira, New York. Elijah Jones died November 30, 1854, aged 67 years. Cynthia Jones died August 21, 1854 aged 61 years. |
