When Mary Alice Melling was born on 13 April 1854, in Wigan, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Melling, was 31 and her mother, Margaret Ward, was 34. She married Sylvester Frazer Jones on 9 January 1878, in St. George, Washington, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States in 1870 and Iron, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 29 January 1925, in Summit, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Enoch Cemetery, Enoch, Iron, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1858: Iron, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Iron, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (Lancashire): habitational name from any of the places near Lancaster and near Liverpool. Both are probably so called from an Old English personal name Mealla + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas.
Irish: variant of Mellon .
German: habitational name from a place called Mellingen (see Mellinger ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesTHE LIFE STORY OF SETH MELLING JONES Written by Himself In the little town of Enoch in Iron County, Utah, seven m …
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