Mary Ella (Beebe) Jones (1868 - 1952)

Born 25 Jun 1868 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Cyrus E. Jones — married 26 Mar 1890 in Bayonne, Hudson, New Jersey, United States

Died 27 Aug 1952 at age 84 in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, USA

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Biography

Mary was born in 1868. She is the daughter of Ira Beebe and Zilphia Hartt.

Genealogical Records

Census Records

• Primary Source, United States Census, 1880, ^[1] : Data summary: In the 1880 census, Ira L. Beebe, age (39) was the head of a East Orange, Essex, New Jersey household. Members of the household include:

1. ) Scanned Image of 1880 Census from Ancestry Record 6742 #35924274: 1880 Census, Image 36 of 50: Ira L. Beebe, 39, Head, married, Stock Broker, b. NY
2. ) Zilphia I. Beebe, 38, Wife, married, Keeping House, b. NY.
   1. ) Zilphia I. Beebe, 13, daughter, b. NY
   2. ) Mary E. Beebe, 11, daughter, b. NY
   3. ) Ira L. Beebe, Jr., 4, son, b. NY
3. ) Roderick Beebe, 64, Father, married, Stock Broker, b. NY
4. ) Jane E. Beebe, 63, Mother, married, living with them, b. NY.

Death Records

• Primary Source, (burial); Tertiary Source (biography), Find A Grave Index ^[2] Data Summary:

1. ) Find A Grave: Memorial #65448156: Mary Ella “Bama” Beebe Jones, daughter of Ira Lovejoy Beebe (1841–1931) and Zilpha Isadora (Hartt) Beebe (1846–1911), was born 25 Jun 1868 at Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA, and she died 27 Aug 1952 (aged 84) at Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, USA.
   1. ) Siblings:
      1. ) Zilpha Isadora (Beebe) Spring (1866–1940)
      2. ) Ira L. Beebe (1875–1930)
   2. ) Marriage. Mary Ella “Bama” Beebe married Cyrus Emory Jones (1863–1922).
   3. ) Children:
      1. ) Madelyn (Jones) Osgood (1892–1978)
      2. ) Margaret (Jones) Purvis (1893–1983)
      3. ) Cyrus Emory Jones (1895–1914)
      4. ) Ursula Beebe (Jones) Sullivan (1897–1969)
      5. ) Beebe Jones (1899–1932)
      6. ) Roderick Beebe Jones (1903–1962)
      7. ) Lois Mary (Jones) Kugeman (1907–1983)
2. ) BURIAL. Mary Ella “Bama” Beebe Jones was buried in the Lake View Cemetery at Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, USA.
   1. ) Find a Grave Notes:
      1. ) " Mary Ella Beebe Jones, a direct descendent of John Beebe who emigrated from England in 1650, was born in Brooklyn NY in 1868, the younger daughter of General Ira L. Beebe and Zilpha Hart. In 1897, she and her husband moved to Jamestown where she lived for the remainder of her life. She was a member of a coterie of prominent Jamestown women at the turn of the century, who through the years charted the course of many organizations which have played an important role in the good works and cultural advancement of Jamestown. She was the first chairman of the Ways and Means committee of the W.C.A. Hospital back in 1910, an early member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mozart Club, and the former New Century Art Club. A devoted member of the First Presbyterian Church, she served as a past president of its Needlework Guild. Always a patron of the arts, her old family residence on Fairmont Avenue was a mecca for the amateur theatrical venture of the old Players Club from which the Little Theatre of Jamestown evolved in 1936. Mrs. Jones was a zealous pianist, and to the end of her long life found keen enjoyment in her music with discriminating taste of an artist. Her alert sense of humour and gay loveliness deeply endeared her to everyone with whom she came in contact. She exhibited her rare qualities of understanding and leadership as the years lengthened bringing frail health and the sorrow of relinquishing many close friends to death. She added patrician dignity to her social sponsorship of the youthful Beta Sigma Phi Sorority., which she assumed when in her 70s. She first served the position in Beta Mu Chapter, later transferring to the Xi Sigma Exemplar Chapter. The fastidious happiness of her youthful attitudes and enthusiasm survived the toll of years to an amazing degree with her life completely enfolded in the beautiful devotion of her large family. She was the mother of four daughters and three sons. To her eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren she was “Bama”. (Written by Andrea Purvis, 2016) "
   2. ) Tombstone Photo: Inscription, "MARY BEEBE JONES 1868--1952 WIFE OF CYRUS EMORY JONES"
   3. ) Image of Mary Beebe Jones.

Biographic and Genealogical References

• Secondary Source, Clarence Beebe in his book Monograph of the Descent of the Family of Beebe ^[3] cites Mary Ella Beebe in profile (1177). Data summary;

1. ) Page 102. IRA LOVEJOY BEEBE (1010), son of Roderick Beebe (751) was born in Ghent, NY., 25 Feb 1841. Married Zilphia Isadora Hartt. A merchant in New York City. Brigadier General of New York militia. Children: Zilphia Isodora (1176), Mary Ella (1177), and Ira Lovejoy (1178)
2. ) Monograph, etc., Page 114: MARY ELLA Beebe (1177), daughter of Ira Lovejoy Beebe (1010) was born in Brooklyn, NY., 25 June 1868. Married Cyrus Embry Jones of Jamestown, NY.

Research Notes

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Sources

1. ↑ 1880 United States Federal Census; Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints database on-line. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Year: 1880; Census Place: East Orange, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: 780; Page: 478C; Enumeration District: 097. Scanned Image of Ira L. Beebe in the 1880 US census from Ancestry Record 6742 #35924274.
2. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 January 2020), memorial page for Mary Ella “Bama” Beebe Jones (25 Jun 1868–27 Aug 1952), Find A Grave Memorial no. 65448156, citing Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Rick Sullivan (contributor 47425941) .
3. ↑ Beebe, Clarence, Monograph of the Descent of the Family of Beebe, from the earliest known immigrant--John, of Broughton, England, 1650, compiled and edited by Clarence Beebe, 150 Nassau Street, New York,1904; Profile (1177), page 102, 114. Clarence Beebe Genealogy online -Title Page

Other Sources

• "New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZG1-FQR : 20 January 2020), Mary Ella Beebe in entry for Cyrus E. Jones, 1890.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7HV-FSZ : accessed 27 January 2020), Mary B Jones, Ellicott, Chautauqua, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 41, sheet 10B, line 83, family 276, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1412; FHL microfilm 2,341,147.