When Mary Nancy Jones was born on 9 January 1853, in Nashville, Washington Township, Holmes, Ohio, United States, her father, Martin Jones, was 41 and her mother, Christena Mathewson, was 38. She married Rev Josephus Ricketts Jacob on 21 July 1881, in Mount Union, Alliance, Stark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Willoughby, Lake, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Sharon Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1920. She died on 1 June 1934, in Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81.
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English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John ), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. It began to be adopted as a non-hereditary surname in some parts of Wales from the 16th century onward, but did not become a widespread hereditary surname there until the 18th and 19th centuries. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages. It is (including in the sense 2 below) the fifth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
English: habitational or occupational name for someone who lived or worked ‘at John's (house)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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