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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
COMMEMORATIVE
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
of the Counties of
HARRISON AND CARROLL, OHIO
Containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, and of Many of the Early
Settled Families.
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
CHICAGO:
J. H. Beers & Co.
1891
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EVAN JONES
established his home in Carroll County, Ohio, in the year 1880, and for
seven years thereafter was employed in connection with the coal-mining
industry in this county, a line of service with which he had become more or
less familiar in his native land. A man of energy, ambition and
resolute purpose, he has made the best of the opportunities that have
presented themselves, and through his own efforts, fostered by the devoted
cooperation of his wife, has gained place as one of the substantial citizens
of the county. The well improved farm which he owned comprised eighty
acres, being situated in Harrison Township, on rural mail route No. 1 from
the village of Dellroy. In March, 1921, he sold his farm and removed
to Dellroy where he is now living retired.
The north of Wales figures as the place of birth of
Even Jones, who was there born April 25, 1853, a son of John and Mary
Jones, representatives of families long established in that part of
Wales. There the Jones family had been tenant farmers for many
generations, the large landed estates being held by wealthy proprietors,
under the old English tenant system, and the tenant farmers having no
opportunity to acquire ownership of the land which they cultivated.
Evan Jones was reared to manhood in his native land, received a
common-school education and early began to work on the farm, besides gaining
experience in the coal mines for which the north of Wales has long been
noted. In 1876, a few years after his marriage, Mr. Jones left
his family in Wales and came to the United States for the purpose of making
investigations and formulating definite planes for establishing a home in
this country. He made his way to Plymouth, Pennsylvania, and there
worked in coal mines one year, at the expiration of which he returned to
Wales. Three years later, in company with his wife and their four
children, he came again to the United States, and it was at this time that
he made Carroll County, Ohio, his destination. He established the
family home in Sherodsville, and for the ensuing seven years was engaged as
a workman in the coal mines of this locality. He and his wife
practiced the utmost frugality and economy, and finally his savings
justified him in the purchase of a farm, to the management of which he gave
his attention, until recently, the while definite independence and
prosperity attended his earnest and vigorous activates as an agriculturist
and stock-raiser. He made numerous improvements on his farm and became
one of the substantial and honored representatives of farm enterprise in
Carroll County. In politics he maintains an independent attitude and
votes for men and measures meeting the approval of his judgment,
irrespective of strict partisan lines. He and his wife are earnest
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Dellroy.
Mr. Jones was twenty-three years of age at the
time of his marriage to Miss Mary Emanuel, who was born Jan. 11,
1855, daughter of Jarmidan and Sarah Emanuel, of North Wales.
Of the ten children of his union all are living except one, who died in
early infancy: John Francis, who resides at Dellroy, married Miss
Bertha Kelley, of Leesville, this county, and they have six children -
Mary Elizabeth, John Kenneth, Floyd, Pauline, Florence and Irene.
Edward Emanuel, the second son, is now a resident of the city of
Chicago, Illinois. The maiden name of his wife was Grace Schusler,
and their two surviving children are Ruth and Donald, a third
child, Dwight, having died in 1906, age one year. Evan, Jr.,
the third son, resides at Magnolia, Carroll County. He married Miss
Ada Shearer and they have two children - Richard and Mary
Eveline. David Thomas, the fourth son, is a resident of
Canton, Ohio. He married Miss Eva Chester, and they have three
children - Earl, Mary and Hellen. William married
Miss Pearl Unkerfer and they reside in Canton, their two children being
William and Howard David. Mary, the eldest daughter, is
the wife of Oren West, of Dellroy, and they have one child,
Clayton Oren. Sarah Ann is the wife of Walter Little
formerly of Dellroy. They have one son, Ivin Daniel. Margaret
is the wife of Clare Close, of that village, Emma is the wife
of Leslie Holmes of Harrison Township.
Source: History of Carroll and Harrison Counties,
Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub.
Co., 1921 - Vol. II - Page 955 |
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