Harvey Horace Jones

   Find a Grave ID: 146343383.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Miscellaneous. Son of Chauncey Jones and Ursula Crosby Jones.

Harvey married his cousin's widow, Eliza Jane Smail /King in Grant County, Wisconsin on March 5, 1851.

Harvey and his family departed for the Oregon Trail on March 29, 1854 and arrived at the White River Valley settlement in King County on Oct. 4th, 1854.

Harvey secured a Donation Land Claim for 314.80 acres of land on the west side of the White River in the North Auburn area on October 13, 1954. The location is written as: Section 6 T21N R5E & Section 31 T22N R5E.

On October 28, 1855, having lived on their homested for just one year, a band of local Indians attacked the settlers living along the White River Valley. Harvey Jones and his wife were killed, Harvey was sick that morning, and upon reaching his bedroom door he was hit by a musket in the chest, and died moments later. What was left of his remains was found in the House in which the Indians set to fire. Harveys wife Eliza was shot in the chest, and then her face and jaw was mutilated by what appears to been the head of an ax. Their Hired Hand Enos Cooper body was found 150 yards from the house, he was shot in the chest.

The remains of Harvey Jones, his wife Eliza, and Enos Cooper were buried at that site, where they were killed, the graves were unmarked, today that site is believed to be an empty field.

The Indians spared the lives of the three children, allowing them to go to a distant neighbors house for safety.

At the time of Harvey Jones death, he was 30 years of age.

Harvey married Eliza Jane Smail, daughter of Samuel Smail and Hannah Luce Smail. (Eliza Jane Smail was buried in Auburn, WA.)