When Peggy Jones was born on 6 May 1930, in Emporia, Greensville, Virginia, United States, her father, Keith Rogers Jones, was 34 and her mother, Dolly Bell Huckstep, was 37. She married Edward Garland Raney Jr. on 11 July 1952, in Brunswick, Virginia, United States. She lived in Sturgeon District, Brunswick, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 17 July 1986, in Emporia, Virginia, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Raney-Mallory Family Cemetery, Brunswick, Virginia, United States.
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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