When Laura Ann Jones was born on 16 January 1843, in Marion, Illinois, United States, her father, James Jones, was 47 and her mother, Laura Kieth Llewellyn, was 35. She married Benjamin B. Doolen on 30 September 1860, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Foster Township, Marion, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 30 March 1894, in Marion, Illinois, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Doolen Cemetery, Lester, Marion, Illinois, 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)’.
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