When George Jones was born in June 1849, in Indiana, United States, his father, Simpson Jones, was 26 and his mother, Eliza Jane Remy, was 27. He married Catherine Wright in 1876. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Marion Township, Decatur, Indiana, United States for about 40 years and Decatur Township, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died in 1933, in Decatur, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84.
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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