When Sarah Jane Jones was born in 1848, in Iowa, United States, her father, Jefferson Jones, was 32 and her mother, Jane Black aka Winkleblack, was 31. She married Francis Melvin Jeffries on 9 July 1865, in Polk, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Spring Valley, Polk, Oregon, United States in 1860 and Polk, Oregon, United States in 1870. She died in 1883, in Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 35.
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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