Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Jones was born on 2 April 1812, in Clydey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Jones, was 20 and her mother, Elizabeth Jones, was 20. She married David Thomas Lewis on 10 April 1831, in Clydey, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849. She died on 6 May 1895, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- 1850 US Census: Elizabeth Jones in household of Dan Jones
- Elizabeth Jones Marriage to David Lewis, "Wales, Pembrokeshire, Parish Registers, 1538-1912"
- Elizabeth Jones, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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World Events (8)
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1831 · Merthyr Uprising
Sparked by a depression that was going through Wales the previous three years, the Merthyr uprisings were carried out by workers that were in debt. In the process, twenty-four people were killed and twenty-six were arrested. Troops were brought in to stop the protestors.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
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)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Elizabeth Jones Life Sketch
Elizabeth Jones Lewis Life Sketch By M. Brent Lewis, great-great grandson Elizabeth Jones Lewis Jones was born April 2, 1812 in Claddy, a village located in Pembrokeshire on the border of Carmarthen, …
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