Brief Life History of Grace Amelia
When Grace Amelia Jones was born on 3 June 1828, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Abel Jones, was 30 and her mother, Phebe Crane, was 32. She married Edwin Wright on 11 November 1851, in Westbrook, Saybrook Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Westbrook, Saybrook Colony, British Colonial America for about 20 years and Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States in 1880. She died on 25 September 1891, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.
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- Grace A Jones in household of Abel Jones, "United States Census, 1850"
- Grace Amelia Jones, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) for Edwin Wright
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1838
The area originally incorporated the area of the present town of Clinton, which was separated from Killingworth along ecclesiastical borders in 1838
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
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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