When Samuel Rush Jones was born in 1795, in Hampshire, Virginia, United States, his father, James Bentley Jones, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Ellen "Sallie" Ravenscroft, was 19. He married Ruth A Anderson on 26 January 1822, in Monongalia Church, Marion, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Ritchie, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Clay District, Ritchie, West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 31 January 1861, in Ritchie, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 66.
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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.
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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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