When Dora Jones was born on 9 September 1884, in Downey, Bannock, Idaho, United States, her father, John Frank Jones, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Ellen Jones, was 29. She married Nathan Thomas Yeaman on 6 March 1905, in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 23 February 1967, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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The Logan Tabernacle was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff in 1891 and has been a center piece of Logan since then. In the late 1980's, the Tabernacle underwent a restoration project that restored all the original pioneer designs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1975.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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