Samuel Jones

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel Jones was born on 18 April 1791, in Metal Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Aik Jones, was 61 and his mother, Elizabeth Somerset, was 35. He married Maria Dorothea Riebold in 1809, in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Metal, Metal Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 22 March 1870, in Metal Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Path Valley, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Jones
1791–1870
Maria Dorothea Riebold
1791–1880
Marriage: 1809
Anna Mary Jones
1815–1895
Mary Davis Jones
1817–1860
Joseph S. Jones
1818–1892
Jesse M Jones
1820–1864
Rev. John Thomas Jones
1822–1910
Samuel R Jones II
1824–1892
Wellington D. Jones
1826–1826
Jennings L Jones
1827–1898
William Elliott Jones
1829–1861
Jane Elizabeth Dunn JONES Miller
1831–1913
Rebecca Coutch JONES
1833–1835
Sylvester Doyle Jones
1839–1907
Cassellton Brooks Jones
1842–1913

Sources (7)

  • Sml Johns, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Samuel Jones, "Find A Grave Index"
  • U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970

World Events (8)

1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment

The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

Name Meaning

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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