Ray Jones
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Raynard Reese Jones (1893 - 1979)

Raynard Reese (Ray) Jones
Born in Custer Township, Lyon, Minnesota, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Son of and
Brother of , , and
Husband of — married 25 Dec 1913 [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , and
Died at age 86 in Selmer, McNairy, Tennessee, United Statesmap
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Biography

Timeline

  • 1893-03-30 Born in Custer Township, Lyon, Minnesota, United States to Richard R Jones and Nettie Avery Jones[1][2]
  • 1895-06-17 Age 2, Living in Chester township, Lyon, Minnesota[3]
  • 1900-06-09 Age 7, Living in Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States[4]
  • 1905-06-01 Age 11, Living in Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, United States[5]
  • 1910-05-13 Age 16, Living in Hanson, Brown, South Dakota, United States[6]
  • 1913-12-25 Age 20, Marriage to Mabel Olean Risting
  • 1914-11-25 Age 21, Birth of son Ceylon Percy (Sonny) Jones in Lake Wilson, Illinois
  • 1916-04-17 Age 23, Birth of Violet Ione Jones in Lake Wilson, Illinois
  • 1917-08-03 Age 24, Birth of Viola Irene Jones in Lake Wilson, Illinois
  • 1920-01-10 Age 26, Living in Cameron, Murray, Minnesota, United States[7]
  • 1920-09-14 Age 27, Death of son Ceylon Percy (Sonny) Jones in Sandwich, Illinois from diabetes (age 5)
  • 1921-08-11 Age 28, Birth of daughter Donna Rae Jones in Garvin, Minnesota[8]
  • 1923-09-22, Age 30, Birth of daughter Betty Ruth Jones in Sandwich, DeKalb, Illinois, United States[9]
  • 1923-09-27, Age 30, Death of daughter Betty Ruth Jones in Sandwich, DeKalb, Illinois, United States (age 6 days).[10]
  • 1924-12-10 Age 31, Death of daughter Viola Irene Jones in Sandwich Illinois (age 7)[11] Buried in Slayton Minnesota.[12]
  • 1927-07-02 Age 34, Birth of son Richard Lewis Jones in Sandwich Illinois
  • 1928-01-19, Age 34, Death of father Richard R. Jones in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States[13]
  • 1930-11-21, Age 46, Death of mother Nettie M Avery in Lyon, Minnesota, United States[14]
  • 1976-02-01, Age 82, Death of wife Mabel Olean Risting[15] Buried in Slayton Cemetery, Slayton Minnesota.[16]
  • 1979-12-17, Age 85, Death, Selmer Tennessee at home of daughter Ione Humphrey[17]
  • 1979 Burial Slayton Cemetery, Slayton, Murray County, Minnesota[18]

Narrative

  • Ray was born in 1893. He passed away in 1979.

Historical Context

Selected Historical Events During Ray's Life:[19]

  • 1896 (Age 3) - Modern Olympic Games Begin
  • 1896 (Age 3) - Billy Sunday begins leading revivals
  • 1898 (Age 5) - Spanish-American War
  • 1901 (Age 8) - Queen Victoria Dies
  • 1901 (Age 8) - Edward VII becomes King of England
  • 1903 (Age 10) - Wright Brother’s First Flight
  • 1906 (Age 13) - Azusa Street revival
  • 1910 (Age 17) - George V becomes King of England
  • 1919 (Age 26) - Prohibition Begins
  • 1920 (Age 27) - Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
  • 1927 (Age 34) - Lindbergh Nonstop to Paris
  • 1929 (Age 36) - Wall Street Crash
  • 1931 (Age 38) - C. S. Lewis becomes a Christian
  • 1933 (Age 40) - Prohibition Ends
  • 1933 (Age 40) - The Dustbowl
  • 1933 (Age 40) - Hitler Becomes German Chancellor
  • 1936 (Age 43) - King Edward VIII Abdicates
  • 1936 (Age 43) - Edward VIII becomes King of England then Abdicates
  • 1936 (Age 43) - George VI becomes King of England
  • 1937 (Age 44) - Hindenburg Disaster
  • 1939 (Age 46) - Start of WWII
  • 1940 (Age 47) - Dunkirk
  • 1941 (Age 48) - Pearl Harbor
  • 1944 (Age 51) - D-Day
  • 1945 (Age 52) - Germany Surrenders WWII
  • 1945 (Age 52) - Hiroshima
  • 1945 (Age 52) - Bonhoeffer executed
  • 1947 (Age 54) - Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
  • 1948 (Age 55) - Birth of Israel
  • 1949 (Age 56) - China becomes Communist
  • 1949 (Age 56) - Los Angeles Crusade catapults Billy Graham
  • 1950 (Age 57) - Korean War Starts
  • 1950 (Age 57) - Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity
  • 1952 (Age 59) - Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England
  • 1955 (Age 62) - Rosa Parks Bus Ride
  • 1957 (Age 64) - USSR Launches first Satellite Sputnik
  • 1958 (Age 65) - US Launches first Satellite Explorer 1
  • 1959 (Age 66) - Castro Takes over Cuba
  • 1961 (Age 68) - Berlin Wall Goes Up
  • 1961 (Age 68) - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
  • 1961 (Age 68) - Alan Shepard becomes first American in space
  • 1962 (Age 69) - Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 1963 (Age 70) - JFK Assassinated
  • 1963 (Age 70) - MLK I Have a Dream Speech
  • 1966 (Age 73) - Aberfan Disaster
  • 1967 (Age 74) - First Super Bowl
  • 1967 (Age 74) - Six-Day War
  • 1968 (Age 75) - Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated
  • 1969 (Age 76) - Moon Walk
  • 1969 (Age 76) - Concorde First Flight
  • 1972 (Age 79) - Watergate
  • 1974 (Age 81) - Nixon Resigns
  • 1978 (Age 85) - Jonestown
  • 1979 (Age 86) - Three Mile Island


Sources

  1. ↑ "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDSG-1G8 : 5 February 2020), Richard R. Jones in entry for Raymond Jones, 1893.
  2. ↑ "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDSG-1GZ : 5 February 2020), Raymond Jones, 1893.
  3. ↑ "Minnesota State Census, 1895," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQDF-8SN : 22 February 2021), Raynard Jones in household of Richard R Jones, Chester township, Lyon, Minnesota; citing p. 3, line 1, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 565,787.
  4. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9SY-4NV : accessed 3 July 2022), Raymond Jones in household of Richard R Jones, Marshall village, Lyon, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 156, sheet 11A, family 220, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,773.
  5. ↑ "Minnesota State Census, 1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP38-YP8 : 18 February 2021), Raymond Jones, Marshall, Ward Number: 01, Lyon, Minnesota; citing p. 279, line 18, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 928,793.
  6. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXL-6XC : accessed 4 July 2022), Raynard Jones in household of R Richard Jones, Hanson, Brown, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 63, sheet 15B, family 21, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1477; FHL microfilm 1,375,490.
  7. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWBJ-PV2 : 2 February 2021), Raynard Jones, 1920.
  8. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168075219/donna-rae-swanquist
  9. ↑ "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQ9P-SLF : 8 March 2018), Betty Ruth Jones, 27 Sep 1923; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,558,710.
  10. ↑ "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQ9P-SLN : 8 March 2018), Ray Jones in entry for Betty Ruth Jones, 27 Sep 1923; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,558,710.
  11. ↑ "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N382-K8B : 25 April 2022), Risting in entry for Aniola, A... Jones, 1924.
  12. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176224817/irene-jones
  13. ↑ "Minnesota, Obituaries 1865-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WK-17TL : accessed 4 July 2022), Ray in entry for Richard R Jones, 1928; citing Minnesota, United States, newspaper Southwest Minnesota Historical Center, Marshall. ; FHL microfilm 7,618,857.
  14. ↑ "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZH8S-156Z : 7 July 2020), Nettie Jones, 21 Nov 1939; citing Death, Minnesota State Department of Health, St. Paul.
  15. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J217-BM3 : 9 January 2021), Mabel Jones, Feb 1976; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  16. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176224821/ray-jones
  17. ↑ Immediate family records
  18. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2B1-SF78 : 21 July 2020), Ray Jones, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
  19. ↑ Adapted from numerous history timelines




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