Marceline Mae (Baldwin) Jones (1927 - 1978)

Born 8 Jan 1927 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James Warren Jones — married 12 Jun 1949 in Wayne, Indiana, United States

Died 18 Nov 1978 at age 51 in Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana

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Biography

Marceline was born in 1927. She died on 18 November 1978 when her husband, Jim Jones, ordered the "revolutionary suicide" of Peoples Temple members. She was buried at earlham Cemetery in Richmond, Indiana.^[1]

Marriage & Children

Marceline married Jim Jones, on 12 June 1949 in Wayne County, Indiana. Jones was actually her third cousin, although it is unknown if they knew this. They only had one biological child due to Marceline's health issues, but they adopted several children of various races, which they called their "Rainbow Family." In 1960, they became the first white family in Indiana to adopt a black child. Their children are listed below. Those whose names are in italics died in Jonestown, Guyana with her.

1. Agnes Pauline (b. 1943, Indiana, United States; adopted 1954)
2. Suzanne (b. 1953, South Korea; adopted 1959)
3. Stephanie Lynn (1954, South Korea; adopted c. 1958)
4. Lew Eric (b. 1956, South Korea; adopted c. 1958)
5. Tim Tupper
6. Living Son
7. Living son

In their wills written in August 1977,^[2] Jones and Marceline also acknowledged Johnny Moss Brown (b. 1950, Texas, United States) as their adopted son, although he was never formally adopted.^[3] He also died in Jonestown.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). "Where were the people who died in Guyana buried?" from Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=87578
2. ↑ Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). "The Wills of Jim Jones and Marceline Jones" in Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=14027
3. ↑ Guinn, Jeff. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
4. ↑ Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). "John Moss Brown Jones" in Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?who_died=jones-john-moss-brown

• Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/
  • Death entry
  • Marceline/Mom by Stephan Jones
  • A Mother-In-Law's Blues by Mike Cartmell
  • Wives of God, Mothers of the Faithful: Edna Rose Baker and Marceline Jones as Mothers Divine by E. Black
  • A joint statement of Marceline Jones and Lynetta Jones, 1975
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVQ-MFGV : 13 December 2015), Marceline Baldwin Jones, 1978; Burial, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States of America, Earlham Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #6143532.
• "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27KZ-XMN : 10 December 2017), James W Jones and Marceline Baldwin, ; citing Wayne, Indiana, United States, various county clerk offices, Indiana; FHL microfilm 1,846,685.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X41C-M82 : accessed 24 September 2018), Marceline Baldwin in household of Walter R Baldwin, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 46, sheet 18A, line 36, family 435, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 638; FHL microfilm 2,340,373.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1BK-S4D : 15 March 2018), Marceline Baldwin in household of Walter Baldwin, Richmond, Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 89-29, sheet 14B, line 61, family 307, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1108.

See Also:

• Wikipedia: Jim Jones