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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 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=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9402152/charles-jesse-jones|title=Charles Jesse Jones|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 19, 2021}}</ref>

In a long obituary published in ''[[The New York Times]],'' Jones was described as having been "known throughout America as 'Buffalo Jones', famous cowboy and big game hunter and friend of the late former President Theodore Roosevelt. He and Roosevelt died less than ten months apart in 1919.<ref>''[[The New York Times]],'' October 2, 1919.</ref> There is no mention in ''The Times'' that Jones was "the first, great, and highly original preserver-user of North America’s wildlife."<ref name=aprofile/>

In a long obituary published in ''[[The New York Times]],'' Jones was described as having been "known throughout America as 'Buffalo Jones', famous cowboy and big game hunter and friend of the late former President Theodore Roosevelt. He and Roosevelt died less than ten months apart in 1919.<ref>''[[The New York Times]],'' October 2, 1919.</ref> There is no mention in ''The Times'' that Jones was "the first, great, and highly original preserver-user of North America’s wildlife."<ref name=aprofile/>