When David Crocket Jones was born on 8 August 1864, in Newton, Arkansas, United States, his father, Lemuel Rasberry Jones, was 31 and his mother, Cevina Gillmore, was 28. He married Laura A Davis on 19 March 1885. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in White Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Big Creek Township, Newton, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 11 September 1947, in Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bentonville Cemetery, Bentonville, Benton, Arkansas, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
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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)’.
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