When Andrew Gilbert Jones was born on 1 January 1853, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Samuel A. Jones, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Divoll, was 26. He married Sarah Jane Ballou on 3 April 1877, in Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Shirley, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Woonsocket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1880. He died on 19 November 1916, in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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