When James Preston Jones was born on 6 December 1943, in North Carolina, United States, his father, James Preston Jones, was 27 and his mother, Nannie Louise Shirley, was 25. He lived in Snow Hill Township, Greene, North Carolina, United States in 1950 and Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, United States in 1963. He died on 25 January 1963, in Chapel Hill, Orange, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Snow Hill, Greene, North Carolina, 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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