Obituary Record
Jones, Valena C. - January 12, 1917
Valena Cecelia MacArthur began teaching schools in rural Mississippi about 1890. She was principal of the Bay St. Louis Negro School 1892-1897 and taught from 1897-1901 as a public school teacher in New Orleans. Married in 1901 to the Reverend Robert E. Jones, resident Bishop of the New Orleans area for Methodist Episcopal Church, Mrs. Jones no longer taught but kept actively interested in education. Several schools have been named in her honor including the Valena C. Jones in Bay St. Louis. At the age of 44 she died in New Orleans on January 12, 1917 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery. A year following her death a New Orleans Public School was named in her honor.
(She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, 116 City Park Ave., New Orleans, La 70119; in a plot marked "Daughters of Louisiana", no marker but # 5 space.)
Source: Sea Coast Echo 5-29, 1977. Last paragraph added by Meg Hi11iker from personal research