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==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==
Jones never fully recovered from the malaria. He spent his last years in New Mexico, [[San Antonio]], Texas, and [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. He patented an irrigation device and sought backers for the project.<ref name=exhibit/> He also envisioned crossbreeding domestic sheep with Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.<ref name=aprofile>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-182.pdf|title=Arctic Profiles: Charles Jesse Jones|publisher=pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca|accessdate=September 9, 2010}}</ref>
Jones never fully recovered from the malaria. He spent his last years in New Mexico, [[San Antonio]], Texas, and [[Denver]], [[Colorado]]. He patented an irrigation device and sought backers for the project.<ref name=exhibit/> He also envisioned crossbreeding domestic sheep with Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.<ref name=aprofile>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-2-182.pdf|title=Arctic Profiles: Charles Jesse Jones|publisher=pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca|accessdate=March 19, 2021}}</ref>
Jones became ill in 1917, and died two years later of a heart attack at the home of his younger daughter, Olive J. Whitmer, in the Kansas capital city of [[Topeka]]. His other daughter was Jessie J. Phillips of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], Illinois. Jones was interred beside his wife and sons, all of whom predeceased him, at Valley View Cemetery in Garden City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KS-OLD-NEWSPAPERS/2010-07/1278720819|title=Death notice of Charles Jesse Jones|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 4, 2010}}</ref>
Jones became ill in 1917, and died two years later of a heart attack at the home of his younger daughter, Olive J. Whitmer, in the Kansas capital city of [[Topeka]]. His other daughter was Jessie J. Phillips of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], Illinois. Jones was interred beside his wife and sons, all of whom predeceased him, at Valley View Cemetery in Garden City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KS-OLD-NEWSPAPERS/2010-07/1278720819|title=Death notice of Charles Jesse Jones|publisher=archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 4, 2010}}</ref>