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Jonas bought a farm in 1852 in South Elizabeth, NJ, "for summers," as a Stanton Smith note says, where vegetables were grown to use at the hotel. The 1865 city directory for Elizabeth says that the Bartletts lived at 117 Washington Ave. This was in the First Ward, but the directory also lists Jonas as the representative of the Fifth Ward on the Board of Freeholders. About 1865 Jonas, Harriet and their two youngest daughters moved to the "George Washington Olmstead" house at the corner of Union and Hicks Sts. (150 Union St.) (12) Samuel Olmsead was the family doctor and lived at this address, indicating that the Olmsteads probably rented rooms to the Bartletts. (13) Jonas bought a house nearby in May of 1869 but the family didn't move there. Jonas bought another house on Degraw St. in the same neighborhood in 1871 but probably didn't live there, either. By then the family consisted of Jonas, his son Henry and daughter Ada, Harriet having died several years earlier. They did move into a house at 34 1st Place in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood that he bought at public auction in 1872, and the three lived there to Jonas' death. Not long before he died he deeded the Union St. house to his daughter-in-law Kate, whom Henry married several years earlier.
In his will, Jonas left the 1st Place house and its contents to his daughter Sarah Gates. His other surviving children were given the remainder of his estate equally among them. His daughter Mariana Briggs had died shortly after giving birth to her daughter Harriet ("Nanny" Smith) and to her, by then 5 years-old, he gave $1,000 to be invested until she came of age.
Jonas' death certificate gives the cause of death as "angina pectoris" and "asthenia" (physical weakening). His doctor, who had attended Harriet (his wife) at the time of her death, reported that he had attended Jonas since December of 1876, suggesting that Jonas had a heart attack at that time and died later that winter. The certificate also says that the 1st Place house was a one-family dwelling and that Jonas died on the second floor. The house still stands and is one of a row of similar, three-story brownstone townhouses in the Italianate Style, although most of the orginal architectural details have been removed. The Brooklyn Eagle reported his death on 26 and 27 March 1877:
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