Gordon (Boggy) Jones

Gordon (Boggy) Jones 
and His Two Sisters, 
Gertrude and Shirley

Stephen (Steve) Jones married Flora Arminta Wheeler.  She was Scotch, Irish, and English.

Stephen's parents came from Wales.  He spoke the language fluently.

Flora had lived among the Indians, her family got along fine with them.  They treated them the same as their white neighbors.  At the time of the Civil War they could trace Grandpa Wheeler's family tree several generations.  They had no idea then when the first ones came to this country.  Flora Wheeler's father, Henry Wheeler and one brother served in the Northern Army, and two brothers in the Southern Army.  Hardships were greater during the Civil War than any other American War, with loved ones on both sides.

Flora and Stephen Jones came to Griggs in 1899.  They lived west of Hannaford, on Section 9.  Then moved 91/2 miles west of Cooperstown, on Section 21 where they lived till after Flora's death in 1908.  The Jones Slough was named after Stephen Jones.  It is called Jones Lake by many today.  In 1919 Stephen moved to Gull Lake, Saskatchewan.  They had three children, Henry moved to Gull Lake, Saskatchewan after his mother's death.  Thomas (Tom) of Griggs Company and Anna (Higgins) also of Griggs Company Anna had one daughter, Flora.  Married to Douglus Carlson of Pine City, Minnesota They have four children, Cheryl, Gloria, Boyd, Myon.

Thomas (Tom) homesteaded three years at Tomkins, Saskatchewan just long enough to prove up his land.  Then he returned to Cooperstown, to marry Blanche Flick in 1914.  They had four children, Marjorie, Gertrude, Gordon, and Shirley.

Marjorie the oldest passed away at the age of 14, in 1930.

Gertrude (Mrs. Carl Merle Jonhson) twin to Gordon is living in Anchorage, Alaska.  They have one child Cynthia Jo (Cinndy), Mrs. Micheal Andrew McKenna.  They have three children.  Micheal Andrew Jr., the twins Matthew Carl and Marc Gregary.  They are living in Anchorage, Alaska.  Gordon (Boggy) lives on the old Truscott farm six miles south of Binford.  He is not married.

Shirley (Mrs. Kenneth Arthur Ethen).  They live five miles south of Binford.  They had three children.  Gary Wallace, Daniel Thomas, and Scott Kenneth.

Gary is living six miles south of Binford.  He is married to Carole Olsen daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Olsen of Binford.  Gary and Carole own the Our Own Hardware in Binford.  They have one son Patrick Daniel.  Also one daughter from a former marriage, Michelle Rae Parker.

Daniel Thomas passed away at the age of 17 years, in 1968.

Scott Kenneth is farming with his father and uncles, Wallace and Chester Ethen.

Blanche Flick Jones's parents were Slvester (Wes) Flick and Martha Wylie.  Martha was born at Westport, New York.  April 16, 1854.  Her father's name was Eli Todd Wylie, son of Robert Wylie.  Her mother's name was Hula Lyon Clapp daughter of Alonzo Clapp and Hulda Lyon Clapp.  Hulda was named after her mother who died when she was two years old.

Their nationality was Scotch English.  Slvester's parents came from Holland to Pennsylvania.  He was born in Dane County, Wisconsin April 15, 1855.  He came to Dakota Territory in 1879.  He lived in Worthington (Valley City) for a time.  He came to Griggs County in 1880.  Nine years before the Dakota Territory became a state.  He hauled lumber from Sanborn for the first buildings to be erected in Cooperstown.  Before making their home west of Cooperstown, they lived east of Red Willow Lake near a little Country store, called Cottonwood.  There was a cheese factory there at that time.

They had four children Roy, Ray, Walter, and Blanche.  There were also three from a former marriage, Almond, Gertrude.  Earl.

Roy, Walter, and Blanche all lived out their lives in Griggs Company

One of Roy's children still lives in Cooperstown.  One of Walter's children is living west of Cooperstown (Mrs. Clinton Dahl).  Two of Blanche's children are living south of Binford, Gordon, and Shirley (Mrs. Kenneth Ethen).

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 260