Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
Our Genealogy - Person Sheet
Birth187679
Deathca 196079
BurialSetauket Cemetery, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY79
Occupationinventor and manufacturer79
FatherWilliam Colpitts Jones , M (1840-1913)
MotherVictoria Ann Shaw , F (1838-ca1916)
Spouses
1Jeanie Whitford 
79, F
79, FBirth187279
Death194879
BurialSetauket Cemetery, Stony Brook, Long Island, NY79
No Children
Notes for Joseph W. Jones
lived in New York City and had a house in Guilford, Connecticut, Stony Creek79
birth year is from gravestone.
listed as age five in 1880 census.
His inventions are at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology. Jones Speedometer, insturment in the Lindberg plane. Phonograph records. RCA on cylinder, taximeter, ways of timing speed in autos, Jones motorola (wind up phonograph).
He had a little dog who lost all her hair.
When he died, Ann Fuller took his ashes to the Setauket Presbyterian Church Cemetery where he was buried in the old part of the cemetery with his wife in the Smith-Whitford lot. He left his house in Norfold CT to his assistant who had been with him in business.79
birth year is from gravestone.
listed as age five in 1880 census.
His inventions are at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology. Jones Speedometer, insturment in the Lindberg plane. Phonograph records. RCA on cylinder, taximeter, ways of timing speed in autos, Jones motorola (wind up phonograph).
He had a little dog who lost all her hair.
When he died, Ann Fuller took his ashes to the Setauket Presbyterian Church Cemetery where he was buried in the old part of the cemetery with his wife in the Smith-Whitford lot. He left his house in Norfold CT to his assistant who had been with him in business.79