When Mary Ann Jones was born in May 1853, in Gallatin, Kentucky, United States, her father, Randolph Jones Jr, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Goins, was 23. She married Ballard Foley on 14 March 1872, in Warsaw, Gallatin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Warsaw, Gallatin, Kentucky, United States in 1900.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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