John
William
Jones
Born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France
Ancestors 
Son of Edward J Jones
and Sarah (Foulkes) Jones
Brother of
Edward Francis Jones, Humphrey Jones, Elizabeth Bryant (Jones) Heller and Sarah Bryant (Jones) Mitchell
Husband of
Frances Louise (Green) Obland
— married
4 Aug 1897 in Arapahoe, Colorado, United States
Father of
Clifford Keller Jones Sr. and Elizabeth Sarah (Jones) Yaeger
Died
at age 74
in Denver, Adams, Colorado, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Aug 2014
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Biography
John William Jones was born on 29 Jun 1862 in Nantes, France to parents Edward Jones and Sarah Foulkes. His family had moved from Wales to France for his father to be trained as a smelting consultant. They returned to Wales after 1861 and immigrated to America in 1872 where his father worked as a smelting consultant in Missouri, Pennsylvania and Colorado. John became a mining engineer. He married Frances (Frankie) Louise Green on 4 Aug 1897 in Denver, Colorado. Children: Clifford W, Edward Lewis, Elizabeth Sarah. He died on 3 Feb 1937 in Denver, Colorado.
After John died his wife Frances married Charles Henry Obland.
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #123379716
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~6.25%
Cynthia (Mitchell) Paul
:
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Cyndimp
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~3.12%
Dennis Hutchins :
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Rejected matches › William Frederick Jones (1862-) › John Charles Jones (1863-1934) › William Jones (1864-) › John Ravenscroft Jones Jr (1861-1937) › William Arthur Harper Jones (1864-) › John W. Jones (abt.1861-) › William Jones (1865-) › John M. Jones (1861-1941) › William David Thomson Jones (1863-1938) › John Johns (abt.1863-) › John James (1861-) › John Alfred Thomas Jones (abt.1861-) › John William Jones (abt.1863-) › John Henry Jones Jr (1860-1939)
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