Notes for George Samuel Jones

GAYLE AND MARTY GALBRAITH GENEALOGY

Notes for George Samuel Jones

George and Nancy moved into town in Thompsonville in 1901 and George took up blacksmithing as a trade. He ran the Blacksmith Shop in Thompsonville. After his death, Otto Poole ran the shop. George was Mayor of Thompsonville for a time. According to long-time Thompsonville residents, he was a man of integrity, and a man with a sharp wit and a good sense of humor.

Here is an excerpt from a paper written by Elmer Criley, titled MY MEMORIES OF THOMPSONVILLE 1905-1921:

"Also west on Main, on now the highway, was a village blacksmith named George Jones. (In later years he had a son-in-law, Ott Poole.) This was another gathering place for farmers while their wives were shopping or visiting in the stores. Mr Jones was full of humor and tricks. I think the Post Office now stands on the site where he did business. Mr Jones was not one of the regulars at church and he delighted in outwitting some who were, especially if they tried to cheat him.

A Mr Scott Wall needed some plow bolts. They were priced two for a niclel. Mr Jones said he would let him have them cheaper if he wouldn't tell anybody. He let him have them three for a dime. Mr Wall went straight to the Main Street and told how he had wickered Mr Jones. They knew no one had ever wickered George Jones and then it came to Wall that he had been taken. He returned to the shop with a wagon wrench in his hand, but Mr Jones had gone to lunch and his son-in-law gave Wall another bolt. I doubt that a day passed that Mr Jones didn't pull one of his tricks. I am sure that if he had been a writer he could have written a book on blacksmith humor."

BG Galbraith