Invitation to Funeral of the late Mrs. Jane Jones.

• imprint_number: 1816.111
• title: You are requested to attend the funeral of the late Mrs. Jane Jones, from Cedar Grove, on Saturday morning, at 11 o’clock. Friday, February 16, 1816.
• sequence_number: 111
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Petersburg
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: -----
• notes: Sheet is card-sized without colophon; Jane Atkinson Jones (1762-1816) was the wife of Gen. Joseph Jones (1749-1824), one of the principal Republican leaders in the Petersburg area; she died at their Cedar Grove estate in Dinwiddie County on the date noted herein; thus this ticket certainly issued from a press in Petersburg, probably the primary Republican one of Edward Pescud, long a friend and ally of the Jones family; however, the possibility that this item issued from another press there cannot be excluded, so the indeterminacy here.
  Shaw & Shoemaker, as well as Hummel, suggest a Richmond origin for this title, apparently not knowing of the social prominence of someone with so common a name as Jane Jones, nor that of an estate named Cedar Grove.
  
  
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