When Elizabeth Jones was born on 5 April 1823, in Iredell, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Baskett 'Billy' Jones, was 32 and her mother, Martha "Patty" Kerley, was 29. She married Rev. John Wilson Jones in 1843, in Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 4 May 1878, in Alexander, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 55.
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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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