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Given Name: Rachel
Surname: Evans

Gender: Female

Birth date: 16 January 1833

Birth place:
English Spelling: Aberdare, Glamorganshire, Wales
Welsh Spelling: Aberdar, Glamorganshire, Wales

Death date: 15 January 1910

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Burial place: Elgin, Union, Oregon, United States

Jones, John E. (1818-1889)

Married 22 November 1850 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States

Left Liverpool, Lancashire, England on 26 February 1849 aboard the ship Buena Vista.
Arrived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States on 19 April 1849.

Jones, Rachel Evans - Biography

John Jones (b. 1852, pictured with his wife Emily) is the oldest son of John and Rachel Evans Jones.

Sarah Jones (b. 1855, pictured with her husband John Miller) is the second child of John and Rachel Evans Jones.

Evan Jones (b. 1859) is the son of John and Rachel Evans Jones.

Martha Jones Shelton (b. 1868) is the daughter of John and Rachel Evans Jones. In the group picture Martha is the smallest girl in the front row. Her sister Ann (b. 1865) is seated on Martha's right.

Obituary: Death of Mrs. Rachel Jones. Rachel Evans Jones died at the home of her son, Joseph Jones, two and one-half miles north of Elgin, on Saturday, Jan. 15, 1910, and interment was made in Summerville cemetery on Monday, Jan. 17.
Rachel Evans was born in South Wales, Jan. 16, 1833. Was married to John Jones in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1850. To this union ten children were born, of whom seven survive, four sons and three daughters. Had resided here more than twenty-one years.
Mrs. Jones was a woman greatly respected by all who knew her during her long residence here, and The Recorder joins with her many friends in tendering sincerest sympathy to the sorrowing family.
Funeral services were held at the late home of the deceased, at 3 p.m., on Sunday, Jan. 16. ("The Elgin Recorder", Elgin, Oregon)