of Des Moines County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Robert Jones 1800 – 1875
Robert Jones
childrenJohn R. Jones · Robert Jones · William Jones · Thomas Jones · David Jones · Sarah Jones · Isaac Jones
Their story
What the record says
Portrait and biographical album of Des Moines County, Iowa.
Welsh immigrant who settled in Iowa.
Erected a stone house and farmed a former naked prairie.
Died Sept. 19, 1875, aged 75.
Man of high moral character.
Member of the Episcopal Church in Wales, later Congregational Church in Iowa.
Wife died Feb. 27, 1878, also aged 75.
Parents of seven children, six born in Wales.
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