When John Evans Jones was born on 11 March 1854, in Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, William Evans Jones, was 57 and his mother, Eleanor James, was 34. He married Winnifred Eliza Jones on 17 April 1888, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Saint Johns, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1900. He died on 25 June 1934, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Malad City Cemetery, Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States.
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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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