Jewel Lee (Pitts) Wilson (1929 - 1978)

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Biography

Jewel was born in 1929. She was a member of the Peoples Temple in San Francisco, California. She moved to Jonestown, Guyana in January 1978. She died there with two of her children and a grandson on 18 November 1978 when Jim Jones ordered the "revolutionary suicide" of Peoples Temple members.

Her Find A Grave profile is for the Jonestown memorial at Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, CA.^[1] She was buried at Union Cemetery in Homer, Louisiana.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31272883/jewell-wilson: accessed 10 May 2023), memorial page for Jewell Lee Wilson (24 Jun 1929–18 Nov 1978), Find A Grave: Memorial #31272883, citing Evergreen Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA; Maintained by Arlene Michelle (contributor 49266525).
2. ↑ 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 record
  • Jewell Wilson Family Tree
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM22-JCB : accessed 10 May 2023), Jewel L Pitts, Magnolia, Columbia, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 22, sheet , line , family , NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll ; FHL microfilm .
• "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:VYRG-5BR : Tue Apr 04 12:03:16 UTC 2023), Entry for Charles Lee Pitts and Mattie Mae Pitts, 1940.
• "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K7D-ZVN5 : 10 February 2023), Jewel Lee Pitts, .