K. W. Jones

K. W. Jones

Coalinga (Calif.) -- Photographs.

K. W. Jones homesteaded his ranch in the 1800's. He lived worked & died on Graces Creek in the Kettleman Hills. Mr. Jones made his coffin from a cottonwood tree, polished it by hand. He dug his grave and placed rocks and petrified wood around the lot in Grangeville Cemetery. When he died (about 1909) from a heart attack after a fall from his horse, everthing was prepared for his burial.

1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

San Joaquin Valley Library System

1909

Coalinga-Huron District Library

For more information about acquiring copies of these images (in photographic and/or digital form), please contact the R. C. Baker Memorial Museum, Inc., Helen Cowan, Curator, 297 West Elm, Coalinga, CA 93210; (559) 935-1914

R. C. Baker Memorial Museum, Inc.

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