Mary Theresa (Carter) Jones (1954 - 1978)

Born 3 Oct 1954 in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States

Ancestors

Died 18 Nov 1978 at age 24 in Jonestown, Barima-Waini, Guyana

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Biography

Terry was born in 1954 in Montana. She was a member of the People's Temple in San Francisco, California and married Jim Jones's adopted son Lew Jones. She moved to Guyana in March 1977, where her son was born in April of that year. She died with her husband and son on 18 November 1978 when Jim Jones ordered the "revolutionary suicide" of Peoples Temple members. She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California.^[1]

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

• Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University. (2018). Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple. https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/
  • Death entry
  • Terry Carter Jones: A Rememberance by Sally Archambault
  • Carter Family Tree
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV5-BF6M : 13 December 2015), Terry Carter, 1978; Burial, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States of America, Evergreen Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #30849783.
• Guinn, Jeff. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.