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distant points lasted for a short time after Augustus's death in 1841. It was not until after this that the boys branched out to establish regular shipbuilding yards in other cities. William, born April 27, 1805, and George seemed to work closely together. The Black River yard was actually run by William Jones's foreman - and brother-in-law - Winfield Scott Lyons, more familiarly known as "Uncle Scott."81 He was the son of Ralph Lyons who owned a farm on the shore of the lake, just west of the river. William Jones married Scott's sister. Lyons had the reputation of being a "man of marked ability and sterling worth, a complete master of the art of shipbuilding in his day, the day of wooden ships.82 Scott Lyons died on February 28, 1868, the result of an accident in handling ship timber. It may be coincidence, but after his death the Jones shipyard in Lorain launched no more vessels. Lyons built several vessels on his own account, but they were hard to identity as some were built in the Jones yard, and others were built in the yard of Alanson and Edmund Gillmore. William A. Jones went into the general merchandising business after he dropped from the shipbuilding scene. He died on January 15, 1888 and is buried near his father in the Cleveland Street Cemetery at Amherst, Ohio. Edmund Gillmore came to Black River in 1812 from Chester, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and went into farming. Two of his sons, Alanson and Edmund, became shipbuilders. Alanson, born in April 1805 at Chester, probably was the more skilled of the two. At the age of 21 he became apprenticed to Augustus Jones. In 1834 Edmund, who was foreman for Augustus Jones, started his own yard. It was located at the same place where Day and Church had been located earlier. This same yard had been operated by L. D. Burnell and Thomas H. Cobb. Again, as the Gillmores, Cobb, Burnell, and occasionally Lyons, built vessels in the same yard, it is difficult to distinguish the builder of particular vessels. In 1834, Edmund Gillmore built the sloop Lorain. During the winter of 1836-37, the Black River Steamboat Association was formed, with Daniel T. Baldwin, president; Barna Meeker, vice president; N. B. Gates, secretary-treasurer. After the stock subscription, the steamer Constellation was built. The Gillmores received the contract. She was built on the east side of the river, possibly in the Jones yard. The boilers were hau1ed from Pittsburgh by six yoke of oxen. …She will run in the Merchant 's Line - is propelled by one of Allair's best New York low pressure engines, of 44 inch cylinder, and ten foot stroke; and truly, 49